Imation's NexsanTM NST4000 expands the availability of fault-tolerant FASTierTM DRAM caching with both Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity, and puts them in reach of mid-range businesses.

The Nexsan NST4000 is a modern hybrid storage appliance, a more efficient, agile and intelligent alternative to traditional storage arrays, filers, and all-flash arrays. Organizations have different needs for performance, capacity and connectivity when managing and protecting the data that drives your business. The NST4000 blends solid-state technology, a highly scalable back-end storage infrastructure, multiple NAS/iSCSI/FC front-end connections, and enterprise-class data management services in a single system. It gives you the convenience and control to meet the needs of one or more workloads in one dedicated easy-to-use appliance.

For organizations struggling to meet both high performance and high capacity NAS, FC or iSCSI application requirements, the NST 4000 makes that easy with a hybrid of solid-state accelerated hard drives. For applications with the most stringent workload requirements like server virtualization, desktop virtualization (VDI), databases and cloud computing, the NST4000 delivers unparalleled performance to ensure application demands never outpace available I/O again. Your applications will have never performed faster on a system operating at the economics of spinning disk storage.

SMART HYBRID
FASTier™ flexible hybrid caching provides high performance where it’s needed. NestOS software intelligently optimizes the hybrid storage architecture and resources.

AGILE SCALABILTY
Linear, non-disruptive scaling up to 2.1 Petabytes.

EFFICIENT UNIFIED
Unified storage system that supports FC, NFS, iSCSI, CIFS, SMB, and F TP in a single software stack and within a single-pane-of-glass management.

ENTERPRISE CLASS
Enterprise class Integrated System Data Management, Business Continuity, and Data Protection features and services that are right-sized for the mid-market

HYBRID SCALING
With NST, you can scale both Solid State and Hard Disk Drives independently. Additionally scale FASTier™ intelligent caching up to 6.4TB with high performance memory and flash technology.

PERFORMANCE AGILITY
NST’s FASTier™Intelligent caching allows you to tune performance where you need it, apply FASTier to specific applications that require high performance.

APPLICATION FLEXIBILITY
Unified storage system that supports multiple application needs through iSCSI, FC, NFS, SMB, and F TP in a single system, with a ‘single pane of glass’ management.

HIGH-CAPACITY SCALING
Linear, non-disruptive scaling up to 2.1PB, leveraging the processing power of E-Series to manage I/O and storage features such as compression.

Features

• FC/iSCSI block and NFS/CIFS shared folders
• FASTier™ caching acceleration technology
• Snapshots
• Asynchronous replication
• Synchronous replication
• Quotas and thin provisioning
• Online capacity expansion
• Enterprise-class reliability and fault tolerance
• Hot-swappable active components
• Utilize SSD, NL-SAS and SAS drives
• Active Directory, iSNS and CHAP integration
• Efficiencies with 60 disks in 4U storage arrays and up to 85% energy savings