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RAID Inc. Grid Storage Manager

Scale Up & Out to Make Storage Management Easy

RAID Inc. Grid Storage Manager is a software-defined storage (SDS) platform. It is designed to provide unified storage management and high-performance storage solutions for enterprises and service providers. RAID Inc. Grid Storage Manager enables organizations to create scalable, flexible, and cost-effective storage infrastructures by utilizing commodity hardware. With support for all major file, block, and object protocols including iSCSI/FC, NFS/SMB, and S3, RAID Inc. Grid Storage Manager storage grids may be configured to address the needs of complex workflows which span sites and datacenters.

RAID Inc. Grid Storage Manager is available as a pre-configured appliance that combines hardware and software. It supports a wide range of deployment scenarios, including on-premises, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments.

RAID Inc. Grid Storage Manager offers a feature-rich and flexible software-defined storage solution that empowers organizations to build scalable, reliable, and cost-effective storage infrastructures tailored to their specific needs.

Key Features

Storage Virtualization

RAID Inc. Grid Storage Manager abstracts the underlying storage hardware, allowing administrators to pool and manage storage resources from multiple vendors as a unified storage system. It provides a virtualization layer that simplifies storage management and increases flexibility.

Unified Storage Management

RAID Inc. Grid Storage Manager offers a comprehensive and intuitive web-based management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of their storage infrastructure from a single pane of glass. This includes tasks such as storage provisioning, capacity management, performance monitoring, and data protection.

High Availability and Data Protection

RAID Inc. Grid Storage Manager provides various data protection features, including RAID configurations, snapshots, replication, and backup capabilities. It supports high availability configurations to ensure continuous access to data in the event of hardware failures or system disruptions.

Scalability and Performance

RAID Inc. Grid Strorage Manager is designed to scale easily to accommodate growing storage needs. It supports scale-out architectures and distributed file systems, allowing organizations to add more storage nodes to the system as required. The platform also optimizes performance through caching, tiering, and load balancing mechanisms.

Integration and Interoperability

RAID Inc. Grid Storage Manager supports a wide range of industry-standard protocols and interfaces, including NFS, SMB/CIFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and Object Storage (S3 and Swift). This ensures compatibility with existing infrastructure and facilitates integration with various applications and platforms.

Automation and Orchestration

RAID Inc. Grid Storage Manager provides APIs and scripting interfaces that enable automation and orchestration of storage management tasks. This allows for integration with external systems, custom workflows, and the development of custom storage applications.

Thin Provisioning and Data Deduplication

RAID Inc. Grid Storage Manager supports thin provisioning, which allows administrators to allocate storage capacity on-demand rather than pre-allocating it upfront. It also provides data deduplication capabilities to reduce storage consumption by eliminating redundant data.

End-to-End Security

RAID Inc. Grid Storage Manager ensures that data is protected throughout its lifecycle, from transmission over networks to storage on the media. These multi-layered security measures help safeguard sensitive data, meet compliance requirements, and provide peace of mind to organizations deploying enterprise and cloud storage solutions.

Integration with Cloud Storage

RAID Inc. Grid Storage Manager offers integration with public and private cloud storage services, allowing organizations to extend their storage infrastructure to the cloud and leverage cloud-based storage resources.

Sample Configurations

Two different approaches to increasing the capacity or performance of a system. The choice between scale-out and scale-up configurations depends on the specific requirements of the system, including the workload characteristics, performance needs, budget constraints, and growth expectations.

Intuitive Management Interface

The intuitive management interface and configuration workflow manager eliminates many complicated steps commonly associated with legacy storage applications to provide IT generalists powerful storage solution configuration options.