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Scale's perfect for server and desktop virtualization, archiving, video file streaming, Microsoft
Exchange and virtually anything else your small business needs to run, and maximizes
profits and investment in IT infrastructure. The Protocol Abstraction Layer makes your
storage future-proof. Currently it runs CIFS, NFS and iSCSI.
In the future, it can be updated to run any other protocol easily in the same cluster
that you already purchased. With other storage systems, you need to toss out the old and
purchase new hardware, and/or additional protocol licenses. Not so with ICOS's PAL technology.
Many customers have combined block and file level services onto Scale nodes, eliminating
many older file servers and reducing the need for added head count to manage silos of storage.
you envision a storage environment where protocols are an after thought, not a line item in your
invoice. ICOS does just that. This is one of the most ground breaking features of ICOS.
In other storage systems, if a drive fails, it must be replaced before the system rebalances
the data on the new drive.
While you're waiting, the data on that drive cannot be accessed. This is a pain to the
IT administrators. I mean, really, drives fail. It's a fact of life. Services, however,
should not fail with the drive. ICOS automatically decommissions the failed drive. Rebalancing
the data elsewhere into the cluster.
You don't have to run back from lunch or drop everything just to replace a drive. We've
had customers go weeks without changing a failed drive. Service interruption didn't
occur. When the new drive is eventually replaced, the system simply adds that drive's capacity
the end of the cluster. It's what we call intelligent rebalance.
You might simply call it the advent of common sense in storage. With intelligent density
adjustment, the investment you make in storage today is protected throughout the future.
Just buy what you need, when you need it-quite possibly a storage industry first. Predictive
state management is like having a storage admin inside each node, making sure your services
continue to run even if some pieces of hardware don't.
The business benefits are numerous. Reduce expenditures on costly system management software,
eliminate the need for additional staff to run and monitor your SAN and NAS environments.
And help meet your own personal SLA's with a little more comfort knowing ICOS is accomplishing
fine green monitoring so you don't have to.
Intelligent easy to use interface. Scale's GUI is one of the simplest to use in the industry.
Set up nodes in less than a minute, add nodes to your cluster and manage your entire virtual
storage pool simply and easily. Scale will continue to role out even more intelligent
feature to storage making it the best, easiest to use, feature rich storage system for the
SME and at a price you can afford.
You need to run your business. Let Scale's ICOS worry about your data. Scale's ICOS:
Intelligent Unified scale out storage for the mid-market.