Storage and Availability Management

Maintaining performance and scalability of storage systems while controlling associated costs are key challenges businesses face due to explosive growth of unstructured data especially in virtualization, cloud and archiving infrastructures.

Symantec FileStore N8300^TM,the latest version of Symantec’s clustered, Network Attached Storage appliance is designed to help customers address business challenges associated with building virtual environments and cloud storage, and managing large volumes of data while controlling associated storage costs. With linear performance and scalability, FileStore N8300 is positioned to address even the most demanding file serving and emerging web-based services. It can be configured to survive multiple node failures, ensuring the high availability of data and continued uptime of data operations with redistribution of workloads across clusters. FileStore N8300 is modularly scalable and can scale up to 16 active-active nodes, up...

1. Anil Chakravarthy, Senior Vice President of Symantec’s Storage and Availability Management Group, will announce a major refresh of our high availability, disaster recovery and storage portfolio, including Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 and Cluster Server 6.0, during the Keynote Day 1 at 11 a.m.
2. Not one but two lucky attendees will walk away with €250 Apple gift card each at the Storage and Availability Management Product Vision and Strategy Forum (PVSF): Building Resilient Private Clouds on Tuesday, 4th of October, 2:30 p.m. at room 112.
3. Play our private cloud 6.0 game by attending one of the storage and availability management sessions or visit our booth at the Symantec Solutions Centre and identify two additional attributes of our private clouds for a chance to win an iPad 2.
4. Listen to exciting customer stories of how Amadeus, Lotus Renault F1 racing team and a big energy company were able to solve their data centre challenges using...

Many IT organizations within enterprises are struggling with the explosive growth of unstructured data. In addition, they are being asked to retain the data for a specific period of time due to regulatory requirements. Enterprises must archive their data to a storage location where it will remain unaltered, can be retained for the appropriate amount of time and can be retrieved quickly to address eDiscovery requirements. Many are turning to Symantec Enterprise Vault™, the industry’s leading information archiving platform , to address these challenges and take control of unstructured data. Interestingly, there isn’t a storage platform in the market place that offers an integrated approach to deliver simple management, modularly scalability and cost effectiveness with Enterprise Vault.

Symantec FileStore N8300 is fully integrated and certified with Enterprise Vault to provide a linearly scalable, highly reliable and cost effective storage solution for storing...

Here's an interesting architecture around the emerging trends around storage and specifically around scale-out NAS solutions. This article does a good job explaining the needs for scale-out NAS solutions and their evolution into cloud based solutions.

The article mentions some potential solutions that include Symantec's FileStore product. FileStore is one of the fastest performing scale-out NAS solutions in the market. While VirtualStore is not mentioned in this article it is a completely software solution that can be used to gain the same benefits mentioned in the article while using existing storage hardware.

Check out the blog at: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/feature/Scale-out-NAS-object-storage-cloud-gateways-replacing-file-storage?asrc=EM_USC_14145246&track=NL-58&ad=...