Today,
Nexsan rolled out significant enhancements
for its high-density BEAST storage platform, including major improvements in
performance and connectivity. The new BEAST Elite increases throughput and IOPs
by 25% while maintaining the architecture's price/performance leadership.
Connectivity has been tripled, providing 12 high-speed Fibre Channel (FC) or
iSCSI host ports, reducing the need for network switches.
BEAST
Elite: Industry-Leading Reliability, Enhanced Performance and Scale
The BEAST
Elite has been architected for the most diverse and demanding storage
environments, including media and entertainment, surveillance, government,
health care, financial and backup. It offers ultra-reliable, high performance
storage that seamlessly fits into existing storage environments. In addition to
a 25% increase in IOPs and throughput, BEAST Elite provides an all-in
enterprise storage software feature set with encryption, snapshots, robust
connectivity with FC and iSCSI, and support for asynchronous replication.
Designed
for easy setup and streamlined management processes for administrators, BEAST
Elite is highly reliable and was built to withstand demanding storage
environments, including ships, subway stations and storage closets that have
less than ideal temperatures and vibration. The platform now supports 14TB and
16TB HDDs with density of up to 2.88PB in a 12U system.
BEAST
Elite F: QLC Flash Delivers Unrivalled Price/Performance Metrics
The BEAST
Elite F storage solution supports QLC NAND technology designed to accelerate
access to extremely large datasets at unrivalled price/performance metrics for
high-capacity, performance-sensitive workloads. It is ideally suited to
environments where performance is critical, but the cost of SSDs has
historically been too high.
The BEAST
Elite and Elite F both support the new E-Flex Architecture, which allows users
to select up to two of any of the three expansion systems available. This gives
organizations the flexibility to size the systems exactly as required within
their rack space requirements.
"The new BEAST Elite storage platform with QLC flash provides
a significant performance improvement over HDDs with industry-leading
price/performance. This storage platform is ideal for customers who want
extremely dense, highly resilient block storage data lakes, analytics and ML/AI
workloads," said Surya Varanasi, CTO of StorCentric, parent company of Nexsan.
"With a reputation for reliability stretching back over two
decades, our BEAST platform has become a trusted solution for a huge range of
organizations and use cases," commented Mihir Shah, CEO of StorCentric, parent
company of Nexsan. "BEAST Elite and Elite F retain those levels of
superior-build quality and robust design while adding significantly to
performance, scale and connectivity capabilities. We will continue to enhance
and introduce new products as a testament to our unrelenting commitment to
customer centricity."