Symantec FileStore Sets SPECsfs Performance Record

Symantec FileStore is the king of the NAS performance hill! In a recent SPECsfs test, FileStore performed 176,728 SPECsfs2008.v3 ops per second with 1.67 ms overall response time. These results show 47% greater throughput and 14% faster overall response time than a similar NetApp test published just two months ago.

For some technical information about FileStore, check out:

Video: Maximizing Your NAS Services with FileStore (5:50 min)
Symantec FileStore delivers high performance, highly scalable network-attached storage (NAS) services for NFS and CIFS file serving. In this video, Colin Davitian, Group Manager, discusses how FileStore can be used to implement these services easily and at a substantially lower cost than other solutions. (Symantec FileStore was formerly known as Storage Foundation Scalable File Server).

Article: Symantec FileStore: Introduction to Scalable NAS for the Enterprise
This article provides a technical introduction to and outlines the various use cases for the Symantec FileStore product. FileStore is a high-performance, highly scalable clustered NAS solution, delivered in a software appliance-style packaging. This document describes a technical overview of Symantec FileStore and the benefits to deploying the product in a file serving environment.