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Infortrend unveiled its breakthrough range of storage solutions – ESVA™: Enterprise Scalable Virtualized Architecture
June 2009 by Marc Jacob
Infortrend, the networked storage expert, unveiled its breakthrough range of storage solutions – ESVA™: Enterprise Scalable Virtualized Architecture, a SAN storage system built from a revolutionary concept to reinforce storage virtualization capability, performance advancement and deliver massive scalability. Infortrend’s ESVA series enables mid-range enterprise users to achieve optimum return on investment, simplify storage infrastructure and maximize application productivity to ensure a much lower total cost of ownership.
Based on Fibre Channel or iSCSI SAN protocols, the ESVA can deliver outstanding business benefits in cost, management and productivity. Features such as storage virtualization, thin provisioning, distributed load balancing, array-based snapshots and replication, energy efficiency and high availability hardware design are optimized to meet mission-critical demands for scalability, performance and availability. For complete peace of mind and assurance, Infortrend will support customers and partners through a 24x7 global service center, providing professional and timely assistance when required. Additionally, Infortrend has invested in dedicated sales and marketing resources to help channel partners and customers understand the benefits of the new ESVA products.
The innovative architecture of a ‘scale-out’ storage pool, exclusively designed by Infortrend to differentiate from conventional scale-up mechanisms enables the subsystem to scale out the virtualized foundation by simply adding additional ESVA arrays for capacity and performance expansion.
Typical “scale up” systems that require fork-lift upgrades and downtime caused by the need to migrate data or load balance, can lead to service disruption and additional overhead as well as the unknown factor of compatibility issues when systems are eventually re-enabled, causing additional, unwanted pressure. The EVSA architecture differs in that its unique and dynamic virtualized ‘scale-out’ mechanism allows on the fly scalability, increased capacity utilization and further efficiency in data read/write load balancing. For customers with budget constraints, capacity and performance can be incrementally increased as needed.
More about ESVA Innovations
In addition to innovative concepts such as virtualization and scale-out storage pools, Infortrend’s new ESVA series features additional value add features and benefits such as thin provisioning for best return on investment, load balancing for simplifying storage scaling and array-based snapshot and replication for maximizing application productivity.
