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NAS products under our maintenance :

• Accusys Storage Ltd. supplies scalable shared flash with Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe)-based ExaSAN. Accusys Gamma and T-Share devices are Thunderbolt 2-designed devices with built-in RAID protection.
• Apple Corp. launched the AirPort Time Capsule NAS device for Macintosh but discontinued the product line in 2017.
• Asustor Inc. is a subsidiary of Taiwanese computer electronics giant Asus. The Asustor NAS family includes the AS100 personal models and business storage with the AS3202, AS6202 and AS7004.
• Avere Systems Cloud-Core NAS (C2N) appliances integrate private or public object storage with a local NAS infrastructure. The storage is based on Avere’s FXT Edge Filer, with a file system designed for object storage. Microsoft Corp. acquired Avere in January 2018.
• Buffalo Americas Inc. uses a burn-in process to qualify the HDDs integrated in its TeraStation desktop and rackmount NAS appliances. Buffalo’s LinkStation NAS devices are targeted at small business and individuals.
• ClearSky Data added a scale-up NAS option as a managed service to complement its block storage and hybrid data protection.
• DataDirect Networks specializes in storage systems for high-performance computing, including the parallel file system-based GRIDScaler family for analytics, cloud and file workloads.
• DataON Storage certified its Scale-Out File Server to enable tunable shared clustered storage to Windows Server 2016.
• Dell EMC Isilon is a scale-out NAS offered in a disk and an all-flash model. The vendor recently introduced Isilon Cloud for Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Drobo 5N NAS is a low-end complement to the Drobo B810i and B1200i iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) midrange arrays.
• Excelero Inc. jumped in the market in 2017 with NVMesh Server SAN software, which sits between block drives and logical file systems. It writes data directly to nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) devices using its patented Remote Direct Drive Access (RDDA).
• Fujitsu Celvin NAS servers are suited for backup, cloud, file sharing and SAN integration cases.
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) branched into NAS with StoreEasy models in varying capacities and price points.
• Hitachi Vantara offers Hitachi NAS Platform, which combines Hitachi’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) arrays and Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) and is geared to large VMware environments.
• Huawei OceanStor 9000 features a symmetrically distributed architecture that scales from three to 288 nodes.
• IBM Spectrum NAS combines IBM Spectrum SDS with storage hardware from partner Compuverde. Spectrum NAS runs on x86 servers.
• IBM Spectrum Scale handles file storage for high-performance computing. Spectrum Scale is SDS, based on IBM’s General Parallel File System (GPFS).
• Infinidat built the petabyte (PB)-scale InfiniBox unified NAS and SAN array predominantly with disk, with a B-tree architecture that caches data and metadata on SSDs, enabling reads directly on the nodes.
• IXsystems Inc. designs consumer-oriented FreeNAS and TrueNAS for enterprises. Customers can purchase bundled iXsystems TrueOS software and TrueNAS hardware or download and install FreeOS on their preferred choice of servers.
• Lenovo Smart Storage personal cloud devices scale from 2 TB to 6 TB with 2 TB of double data rate type 3 (DDR3) memory and one-button file uploads.
• Netgear ReadyNAS is available in desktop and rackmount models, promoted as storage for hybrid and private clouds.
• NetApp Inc. helped pioneer the use of an extensible file system with its Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS) and, more recently, All Flash FAS.
• Nexenta NexentaStor is SDS that also supports Fibre Channel (FC) and NAS. The software runs on bare metal, VMware hosts or inside VMs on hyper-converged hardware.
• Nexsan Unity durability-focused arrays handle SAN and NAS protocols, enabling hybrid media to support mixed workloads, especially in rugged physical locations.
• Panasas ActiveStor parallel hybrid scale-out system runs the PanFS file system.
• Promise Technology Inc. developed the Promise Apollo NAS to accept two 4 TB disks with Apollo Cloud software.
• Pure Storage positions its all-flash FlashBlade as a highly scalable platform for big data analytics.
• QNAP Systems Inc. has an extensive NAS portfolio that spans small and midsize businesses, as well as midrange and high-end enterprise use cases, along with products geared for home users.
• Quantum Corp. launched Xcellis scale-out NAS to compete with Dell EMC Isilon and NetApp FAS. The keystone to Xcellis is the Quantum StorNext scalable file system.
• Qumulo Inc. Core file storage was developed by several of the creators of the Isilon technology. The Core operating system (OS) runs on Qumulo C-series and P-series branded arrays, as well as commodity servers.
• Rackspace enterprise services include Dedicated Network Attached Storage based on the NetApp Ontap OS for managed block- and file-level storage.
• RackTop Systems integrates BrickStor unified storage with Seagate disk and StorONE enclosures and sells it as the Secure Data Protection Platform (SDP2).
• Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220 enterprise arrays scale from 1 TB to 6 TB, with smaller BlackArmor models topping out at 2 TB. Seagate Personal Cloud NAS zeroes in the consumer market with capacity up to 5 TB.
• Spectra Logic introduced the BlackPearl NAS ranging from 48 TB to 420 TB of optional hybrid flash in a 4U rack.
• SoftNAS Cloud NAS software-only product enables customers to scale data migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and VMware vSphere.
• StorageCraft Technology Corp. doesn’t technically have NAS but positions the OneBlox platform it acquired from Exablox as a scale-out alternative.
• Synology Inc. offers NAS devices for business and personal uses, including DiskStation NAS, FS/XS Series, J Series, Plus Series and Value Series.
• Thecus Technology Corp. markets a range of NAS appliances, highlighted by its flagship N5200 RouStor series.
• Verbatim Corp. PowerBay NAS supports four hot-swappable HDD cartridges that can be configured for various RAID levels. Verbatim is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Corp.
• WekaIO VM-deployed NAS software gets installed on flash-enabled x86 servers, using its parallel file system to scale to trillions of files.
• Western Digital Corp. My Cloud NAS comes in four models with branded HelioSeal helium HDDs. Portable, rugged NAS also are available through Western Digital’s G-Technology subsidiary.
• Zadara Storage cloud NAS provides scalable file storage as a service with the software-defined Zadara VPSA Storage Array.