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Scale’s Intelligent Clustered Storage (ICS) is a multi-protocol, unified and easily scalable technology that brings enterprise-class file and block-level services to the SMB. Offered on a growing, multi-density, multi-tier, interchangeable line of truly clustered, non-controller-based Storage Nodes (SN), ICS represents the next shift toward third-generation storage.

Available on both the Scale Storage Nodes and IBM’s System X servers, ICS reduces costs, increases control and makes storage management more convenient.

What We Offer

Scale’s storage solutions can help transform your storage environment by allowing you to consolidate file and block services into one system. Archive and virtualize from one system, all for one very low cost.

Scale Storage Nodes with ICS IBM System X Servers with ICS
SN 2TB, SN 4TB, and SN 8TB iSN 2 TB System X Server
ICS with GPFS ICS with GPFS
Configure as a SAN/NAS or both Configure as a SAN/NAS or both
SAS / SATA available SATA
High Availability Option IBM Global Support

Cost, Control and Convenience

The primary impetus behind the industry’s drive toward Gen 3.0 storage is the rapid growth of data. According to Berkeley’s School of Management, more data was created and stored in the last three years than in the last 40,000 years combined.

You’re feeling that pain.

When evaluating storage solutions, including ours, ask yourself these questions:

 Cost
Does the solution reduce the costs of storage?
Does the solution reduce the costs of expanding your storage pool?
Does the solution reduce your management time and costs?
 Control
Does the solution increase the control you have over growth?
Does the solution allow you to scale incrementally, by increments as small as 1TB?
Does the solution allow your to run CIFS, NFS and iSCSI at the same time from every node without buying extra hardware or protocol licenses?
 Convenience
Does the solution have an easy-to-use GUI that doesn’t require command lines?
Does the solution allow you to mix and match multiple node densities in a future-proof environment?
Does the solution allow you to purchase only the storage you need, when you need it?

What is Third Generation Storage?

Third generation storage has many definitions, but it always includes these four main characteristics:

  1. Flexible, future-proof architecture. Storage systems created today should be compatible with tomorrow’s storage densities and be easily scalable. This means systems must work with changing drive sizes, densities, and configurations over time.
  2. Non-controller based. Third generation storage systems are data-aware in a clustered environment that scales quickly and without complexity. Controller-based architectures are expensive and time-consuming to scale and manage.
  3. Content aware. As technologies become more intelligent, third generation storage will do more than simply hold data.
  4. Cost-effective. Combined with flexibility, third generation storage will be less costly to expand, cheaper to manage and increasingly less expensive to deploy.

Think about it: the future of storage is actually available today.