OAKDALE, MN — Earlier this year, Imation (www.imation.com) introduced the Nexsan Fibre Channel Hybrid Storage Appliance, which is purpose-built for media & entertainment and data protection workloads. The Nexsan NST2000 delivers Fibre Channel connectivity and all the benefits of hybrid storage to mid-sized organizations. The release expands upon Imation’s Nexsan NST family of hybrid storage solutions and is both powerful yet simple to deploy and manage.
With an intelligent hybrid caching layer, NST2000 is optimized for mixed application workloads, media & entertainment workflows and data protection strategies. NST2000 also is well suited for organizations looking to strategically move toward hybrid storage and take advantage of the new levels of performance, availability and reliability it can deliver.
As with all of the hybrid storage systems in the NST product family, NST2000 has a standard, all-inclusive software licensing model. The NST2000 expands the Nexsan NST family’s unified block and file sharing capabilities by adding Fibre Channel connectivity for those small and medium-sized organizations. This gives studios the ability to take advantage of the benefits of NST’s hybrid storage using a full range of unified storage protocols, including iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, FTP and Fibre Channel. The NST2000 starts with 13TBs of storage and can scale up to 168TBs and 2TBs FASTier cache. The solution combines Imation’s intelligent caching algorithms with solid-state disks and the latest processor technology to provide very fast performance.