IBM Scale-out NAS

IBM offers SONAS (scale-out NAS attached storage) to store petabytes amount of data. In enterprise environments, SONAS offers high capacity, high availability, and high levels of performance. The IBM SONAS system supports petabytes of storage and billions of files in a single large file system up to 8PB. The end user can have 4-256 file systems in a complete configured system. IBM SONAS supports snapshots with up to 256 snapshots per file system; user level, group level and file set level quotes; asynchronous replication of data; removal of site data caching; integration with active directory, lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP), and network information service; and command-line interface (CLI) and browser-based graphical user interface (GUI). The supported access protocols include common internet file systems (CIFS), network file systems (NFS), file transfer protocols (FTP), hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS), secure copy protocol (SCP), and network data management protocol (NDMP).