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Symantec Boosts Storage With FilestoreMar 01, 2011 (Daily Champion/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Symantec FileStore, the latest in shelf from Symantec Corporation, a software management solutions company, is to boost storage infrastructure for customers. Regional Director for Africa at Symantec, Mr. Gordon Love said that the new solution would enable organizations to build scalable, high-performance file-based storage services for their enterprise, including private and public clouds. FileStore, he said, has already earned ground-breaking results for file serving in Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) tests, which far exceeds the current benchmarks. He said that a system using FileStore software yielded record results of 176,728 operations per second with an overall response time of 1.67ms in the tests. Using currently available software, FileStore, he said, has demonstrated 47 per cent greater throughput and 14 per cent faster overall response time than the NetApp FAS6080 results posted in August 2009. Mr. Love pointed out that Symantec also uses Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows and Veritas Cluster Server to manage this backup storage, stressing that with FileStore, Symantec delivers reliable, high-performance online backup services at a fraction of the cost by driving up storage utilisation rates and eliminating planned downtime required to scale performance, capacity or daily administration tasks. He, therefore, expressed satisfaction over the industry-leading results and the unparalleled price-performance advantages of the new software. "The SPECsfs benchmark demonstrates that FileStore software delivers the high performance today's enterprises need for their cloud storage environments without locking them into an expensive, proprietary hardware infrastructure," he said. |