Starboard Storage Systems recently announced its Starboard AC72 Storage System, which has been designed to significantly ease the management of mixed workload environments that are inclusive of unstructured, virtualized, as well as structured data. It will be able to do all this while providing twice the performance at less than half the price of traditional SAN and NAS systems.

In a release, Randy Kerns, senior strategist of the Evaluator Group said, "Starboard Storage Systems has addressed pressing storage needs for the mid-tier market by introducing an advanced systems architecture while reducing the complexity of storage management. In a mixed workload environment, Starboard Storage has been shown to deliver twice the performance at half the cost of existing SAN and NAS systems."

Generally storage systems are not created to handle mixed workloads in the best of ways in one scalable storage system and this forces SME customers to have individual silos of DAS, NAS and SAN storage. It makes forklift upgrades from one means of storage array to another essential and expensive. By providing ideal consolidation of unstructured, virtualized, as well as structured data on one scalable storage system, Starboard Storage has made available a futuristic storage system that significantly makes things easier for mid-tier IT environments.

In a comparative test that was undertaken by the Evaluator Group, the Starboard Storage AC72 System was set against another top mid-range unified storage system. In the study, the Starboard AC72 Storage System functioned 100 percent better in terms of performance on the Iometer test and was capable of over 42 percent more transactions a second in the JetStress performance test. The systems could easily be configured with SDDs and HDDs and all of this at half the cost of others in the same competitive line.

Shane Brown, CEO of DigeTekS said, “We were able to consolidate all workloads under the Starboard Storage solution to improve storage utilization and management. As a result, we saw exceptional I/O performance, 20 times faster than the previous iSCSI solution we were using. Even during volume production and peak load periods we were able to maintain high performance and throughput across our virtual environment.”