Starboard AC72 Storage System Overview

With the Starboard AC72 Storage System™, you have the ability to tackle one of the most difficult problems facing mid-tier IT departments today – managing mixed storage workloads. Your unstructured, virtualized, and structured data all have different requirements, and your file and virtualized data are growing relentlessly, making the challenges worse every day. You need a better way.  

Simplify with Starboard Application-Crafted Storage

With the AC72’s Application-Crafted Storage^™, you have the freedom to manage your applications, not your storage. The AC72 provides simple, efficient application consolidation onto a single storage system, optimizing the configuration for each application. Two key architectural features enable the simplicity and power of Application-Crafted Storage:

• A Dynamic Storage Pool with volumes optimized for each application workload cuts administrative complexity in half
• A built-in SSD Accelerator Tier that delivers twice the performance of traditional SAN/NAS systems

In addition, Starboard Storage Apps simplify provisioning of volumes across multiple storage protocols including CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel. Since the AC72 was specially designed to manage mixed workloads, IT administrators dramatically reduce the time and cost of managing storage.

 

Save Costs and Consolidate Mixed Workloads with Dynamic Storage Pooling

Starboard’s next-generation Mixed-workload, Application-Crafted Storage Tiering (MAST) architecture introduces the Starboard Dynamic Storage Pool, cutting administrative complexity in half by eliminating the concept of RAID groups. There’s no more complex RAID group setup or management, no meta-LUNs, no protocol layering, and no lengthy re-builds or re-striping. You benefit from simple and cost-effective scalability with the ability to mix and match drive speeds and capacities; adding drives results in an immediate boost in capacity and performance. The storage pool is thin provisioned for utilization efficiency, and dynamic pooling increases reliability. The bottom line is a radically improved management scenario for administrators juggling mixed workloads.

Learn more about the Starboard Dynamic Storage Pool.

 

Two Times the Performance, Half the Cost with the SSD Accelerator Tier

The Starboard Storage AC72 allows users to share information quickly and reliably by combining the virtually instantaneous access of solid state technology with the state-of-the-art performance optimization features of the SSD Accelerator Tier. This second-generation, autonomic tiering architecture boosts performance for both reads and writes, lowering operational overhead, providing predictable performance, and delivering optimally tuned storage that maintains consistently high performance for mixed workloads. You get twice the performance of traditional SAN/NAS systems at half the cost with a system optimized for both dollars per GB and dollars per IOP.  

Learn more about the Starboard Accelerator Tier.