Nexsan announces QLC-Powered
E-Series 18F storage platform
N
exsan, a global leader in unified
storage solutions and part of the
StorCentric family, has announced
the release of its new E-Series 18F (E18F)
storage platform. The E18F is designed
and optimised for quad-level cell (QLC)
NAND technology, allowing users to
accelerate access to extremely large
datasets at industry leading economics.
The E-Flex Architecture is the next logical
iteration of the high-performing E-Series
architecture. The E-Flex Architecture
provides customers the flexibility to start
with an extremely small footprint and grow
the same footprint to several petabytes
of storage. This architectural extension
simplifies how customers can deploy and
grow their E-Series systems over time.
“Organisations understand the need to
optimise the performance of their data
lake architectures in order to monetise
their data,” said Mihir Shah, CEO of
StorCentric, parent company of Nexsan.
“The E18F delivers on these requirements
with the best cost/performance ratio in
the market. The E18F is one of the many
new products we plan to announce in the
next few months as we execute on our
2020 strategy.”
streaming applications, the E18F can deliver
additional content or video to more users
with greater consistency with support for
massive parallel requests and streams.
“Nexsan has demonstrated its capabilities
for creating storage platforms that can
be deployed in the most demanding
enterprise environments while
offering unrivalled price and maximum
performance,” said Surya Varanasi,
CTO of StorCentric. “The E18F is ideal
for customers who require capacity,
performance and scalability. Our new
E-Flex Architecture allows our customers
to match the growth of their storage with
the growth of their business.”
E18F offers a number of enterprise
features to users, including:
• High-speed storage connectivity
over Fibre Channel, iSCSI or
SAS connectivity and seamless
interoperability
• High availability, non-disruptive
upgrades, snapshots and
asynchronous replication across data
centres using 10GE Ethernet
• Key third-party integrations including
Veeam, Commvault, VMware,
Windows and Xen
• Active Drawer Technology
allows drives to remain active
when the drawer is open for hot-
swap drive management ◊
THE E-FLEX
ARCHITECTURE
PROVIDES
CUSTOMERS
THE FLEXIBILITY
TO START WITH
AN EXTREMELY
SMALL
FOOTPRINT AND
GROW THE SAME
FOOTPRINT
TO SEVERAL
PETABYTES OF
STORAGE.
Designed for diverse, high-
performance applications
The E18F has been designed for a wide
variety of demanding applications,
including real-time analytics and Big Data
users who need a performance uplift
for their Big Data, as well as business
intelligence and decision support systems
where users need to quickly mine massive
data sets using faster, deeper queries.
Users of performance-intensive Artificial
Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning
(ML) applications can benefit from the data
analysis speed they need at a cost-effective
price point. Furthermore, for content
delivery, video on demand and content
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