Nexsan UNITY6000 Hybrid Storage Pricing

Excerpt from Nexsan Press Release

Nexsan™, a global leader in unified storage solutions, today announced that Nexsan UNITY6000 Hybrid Storage has scored an “Excellent” ranking in the recent DCIG 2016-17 Unified Utility Storage Array Buyer’s Guide. Using an eight-step process to rank its tested products, the DCIG Buyer’s Guide provides an objective, third-party evaluation of unified utility storage arrays that evaluates features from an end user’s viewpoint.

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According to the DCIG research, price points for unified utility storage arrays are making it more practical for organizations to keep more data for longer periods of time, even while lowering overall costs and management overhead. The report evaluated unified utility storage arrays from eight vendors that offer arrays for a dollar per gigabyte or less, scaled to at least 75TB of raw capacity and minimally support at least one block protocol (iSCSI and/or Fibre Channel) and one file protocol (CIFS/SMB and /or NFS).

Based on the DCIG product evaluation, Nexsan UNITY6000 offers a price per TB of $390, a max raw storage of 5,040TB and supports two block protocols and five NAS protocols. These specifications and more earned UNITY6000 an “Excellent” rating.

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UNITY delivers a full enterprise-class feature set for customers. Nexsan’s FASTier™ caching accelerates performance to meet demanding I/O requirements. This unified platform supports Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity in addition to NAS and SAN protocols. Unified HDD and SDD support can be tailored for the best, mixed application deployment environment. For organizations facing extreme data growth or needing greater application performance, the Nexsan UNITY family scales from 13TB up to 5PB. Nexsan UNITY matches flexible, performance datacenter storage with the private cloud technology behind Nexsan’s Transporter family of private cloud file sync and share appliances.

Nexsan Cost and Price List Matrix

Group	Mfr Part Number/SKU	Product Description
E-Series V	Nexsan E18V 72TB cost	E18V E-Series V Array with 72TB Raw Capacity E-Series V storage arrays and expansion units offer organizations affordable enterprise-level Fibre Channel, SAS and/or iSCSI SAN storage used for a variety of capacity-optimized and performance-driven applications. Specifications: 18x4TB, 7.2K, dual controller, 10GbE iSCSI Support contract not included in price.
E-Series V	Nexsan E18V 108TB cost	E18V E-Series V Array with 108TB Raw Capacity E-Series V storage arrays and expansion units offer organizations affordable enterprise-level Fibre Channel, SAS and/or iSCSI SAN storage used for a variety of capacity-optimized and performance-driven applications. Specifications: 18x6TB, 7.2K, dual controller, 10GbE iSCSI Support contract not included in price.
E-Series V	Nexsan E18V 144TB cost	E18V E-Series V Array with 144TB Raw Capacity E-Series V storage arrays and expansion units offer organizations affordable enterprise-level Fibre Channel, SAS and/or iSCSI SAN storage used for a variety of capacity-optimized and performance-driven applications. Specifications: 18x6TB, 7.2K, dual controller, 10GbE iSCSI Support contract not included in price.
E-Series P	Nexsan E48P 288TB cost	E48P E-Series P Array with 288TB Raw Capacity E-Series P Storage Arrays fit the bill for diverse capacity and performance based applications like media & entertainment, surveillance, government, healthcare, financial, and backup. The E-Series P has double the performance of the original E-Series. Specifications: 48x6TB, 7.2K, dual controller, 10GbE iSCSI Support contract not included in price.
E-Series P	Nexsan E48P 384TB cost	E48P E-Series P Array with 384TB Raw Capacity E-Series P Storage Arrays fit the bill for diverse capacity and performance based applications like media & entertainment, surveillance, government, healthcare, financial, and backup. The E-Series P has double the performance of the original E-Series. Specifications: 48x8TB, 7.2K, dual controller, 10GbE iSCSI Support contract not included in price.
E-Series P	Nexsan E60P 360TB cost	E60P E-Series P Array with 360TB Raw Capacity E-Series P Storage Arrays fit the bill for diverse capacity and performance based applications like media & entertainment, surveillance, government, healthcare, financial, and backup. The E-Series P has double the performance of the original E-Series. Specifications: 60x6TB, 7.2K, dual controller, 10GbE iSCSI Support contract not included in price.
E-Series P	Nexsan E60P 480TB cost	E60P E-Series P Array with 480TB Raw Capacity E-Series P Storage Arrays fit the bill for diverse capacity and performance based applications like media & entertainment, surveillance, government, healthcare, financial, and backup. The E-Series P has double the performance of the original E-Series. Specifications: 60x8TB, 7.2K, dual controller, 10GbE iSCSI Support contract not included in price.
Beast	Nexsan Beast BT60 360TB cost	Beast BT60 Series Array with 360TB Raw Capacity Lower storage costs and get maximum uptime with Nexsan’s BEAST, a practical and hard-working storage platform. BEAST’s highly reliable storage platform is cost effective and a great fit for enormous data growth applications like backup, archive, digital video surveillance, and more. Specifications: 60x6TB, 7.2K, dual controller, 10GbE iSCSI Support contract not included in price.
Beast	Nexsan Beast BT60 480TB cost	Beast BT60 Series Array with 480TB Raw Capacity Lower storage costs and get maximum uptime with Nexsan’s BEAST, a practical and hard-working storage platform. BEAST’s highly reliable storage platform is cost effective and a great fit for enormous data growth applications like backup, archive, digital video surveillance, and more. Specifications: 60x8TB, 7.2K, dual controller, 10GbE iSCSI Support contract not included in price.
NST	Nexsan NST2000C 168TB cost	NST2000C with 168TB Raw Capacity Nexsan NST delivers a full enterprise-class feature set for small, midsize, and large businesses. NST’s FASTier hybrid caching accelerates performance to meet demanding I/O requirements. Specifications: 28x6TB Support contract not included in price.
NST	Nexsan NST4000 77TB cost	NST4000 with 77TB Raw Capacity Nexsan NST delivers a full enterprise-class feature set for small, midsize, and large businesses. NST’s FASTier hybrid caching accelerates performance to meet demanding I/O requirements. Specifications: 64x1200GB, 10K SAS Support contract not included in price. nexsan, nst4000, pricing, cost

New Dell EqualLogic Model Series

The PS4210, PS6210, PS6610 and FS7610 come with the same enterprise SAN features built directly into the firmware; the only difference is a revved up controller on the PS6200 and a higher number of supported attributes. We thought a side-by-side comparison might help those that are familiar with the PS Series.

Dell EqualLogic PS Series current lineup

PS4210	Increase performance with the right-sized and priced PS4210 Series for your growing business.
PS4210	Next-generation Dell Storage PS Series arrays streamline storage management and improves performance for lasting value.
PS4210	Increase capacity and improve performance with an ultra-dense array for midsized deployments.
PS4210	Optimize file storage with the EqualLogic FS7610 NAS appliance and the scalability, flexibility and efficiency of the FluidFS v4 file system.
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Dell EqualLogic Common Features

All Dell Equallogic units include 8, 16, 24 or 48 drives, dual power supplies and dual fans. Dual controller units are recommended for primary sites.

The complete suite of software is included – Snapshots, Replication (for off-site Disaster Recovery), Volume Management, Multi-path I/O capability (for performance), Cloning and more. There are no licenses or keys needed.

Nexsan launches new E-Series P

Excerpt from Nexsan Corporate Press Release

Nexsan E-Series P

Nexsan™, a global leader in unified storage solutions, today announced the launch of the next generation E-Series P high-density storage solution. Long popular in a variety of data and capacity intensive markets, the new solution increases read performance 134% and write performance 116% over previous models. The storage system incorporates a hardware platform that is future-ready for additional field enhancements including planned on-going improvements. E-Series P enhances Nexsan’s proven 15-year history of delivering unrivaled enterprise-class features, functionality and reliability.

Nexsan Storage Plus Performance

Designed to process heavy workloads with demanding applications, the E-Series P combines a next-generation controller that delivers twice the number of host interfaces, and a controller cache memory of 72GB per system. This allows the solution to deliver higher performance and greater capacity, essential for vertical markets relying on performance based applications such as media and entertainment, surveillance, government, healthcare and financial organizations. Available in 4U/60 drive and 4U/48 drive configurations, the E-Series was architected to run in challenging environments. Its innovative designs include Anti-vibration Design™ and Cool Drive Technology™ for exceptional field reliability. E-Series P also supports Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) and Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) to meet compliance requirements and protect data at rest.

Nexsan Pricing for the new E-Series P starts around $130,000. Costs for other models vary.

Nexsan Pricing

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Rackspace Cloud Storage Pricing

Rackspace Cloud Files Pricing

Rackspace Cloud Files provides online object storage for files and media, delivering them globally at blazing speeds over a worldwide content delivery network (CDN). You can store as many files as you want—even very large files.

Rackspace pricing below the 1PB/1024TB threshold starts at $0.075/GB per month when you buy over 500TB of storage; prices increase slightly if you need less storage.

Rackspace Cloud Files Service Claims

Reliable – Cloud Files maintains three copies of each file, so your users get files faster and more reliably. Availability is important to you, so our SLA guarantees it.

Fast – Cloud Files uses over 200 global edge locations around the world, so your users get content fast—from servers within their region. This makes Cloud Files great for media hosting.

Easy to use – Store and manage your files using our online control panel or desktop software or programmatically via the Cloud Files API. Developer tools are available for Java, Python, Node.js, Ruby, PHP, and .NET.

Google Cloud Storage Pricing

Google Cloud Storage is a RESTful online file storage web service for storing and accessing data on Google’s infrastructure. The service combines the performance and scalability of Google’s cloud with advanced security and sharing capabilities. It is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), comparable to Amazon S3 online storage service.

Prices are competitive, as you would expect, with 4,500TB costing $0.054/GB per month. You’ll need to get a quote from Google if you intend to buy more than that. Durable Reduced Availability, like Amazon’s Reduced Redundancy Storage, is a little cheaper at $0.042/GB per month.

Google Storage Objects affect pricing

Objects stored in Google Cloud Storage are grouped into buckets. Buckets are containers within the cloud that can be assigned to storage classes individually. Google Cloud Storage offers three storage classes with varying latency and price: Standard, Durable Reduced Availability (DRA) and Nearline.

Standard storage class has the highest performance and availability of the three tiers and is best used for frequently-accessed data that requires low latency. It is priced at .026 cents per gigabyte per month.

DRA storage class has a higher latency and lower availability than the Standard option, at a lower price. It is most often used for objects that are able to experience some unavailability, such as certain types of backup. DRA storage is priced at .02 cents per gigabyte per month.

Nearline storage class has the highest latency of the three options, at the lowest price. According to Google, it is best used as a backup for disaster recovery, with data that is accessed no more than once a month. Google Nearline storage is priced at .01 cents per gigabyte per month.

Amazaon S3 Pricing

Amazon S3 Pricing

Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is used by major enterprises like Netflix, Pinterest and Reddit.

AmazonS3 costs about $0.055/GB per month if you retain over 5,000TB on Amazon’s cloud (the price goes up to $0.095/GB per month for 1TB or less of storage). If the data you’re interested in storing isn’t mission-critical, Amazon’s Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) offering lowers the price to $0.037/GB per month. This is generally for non-duplicated, non-HA data.

You can choose to store your data in one of several geographic regions; the obvious benefit is reducing your latency by picking a region close to home, or your customers, but from a disaster recovery standpoint, selecting a remote region makes sense, too.

Everything you store with Amazon S3 is accessible via the web, and you can use the Amazon S3 Encryption Client to lock down data before it leaves your company. Amazon has impressive resources for developers, which should help your staff hit the ground running.

Amazon also has a well-defined service level agreement (SLA) in place, and if you have any doubts over the service’s resilience, consider that Amazon itself runs it’s own businesses on S3.

Nimble Storage MSRP (PDF)

There are several Nimble Storage MSRP Price Lists floating around. The following Pricing chart is outdated but may still help with budgeting.

Nimble-Storage-MSRP-Dated-06-27-2015

Datrium DVX availability and list price

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Datrium, the leader in server powered storage, today announced the general availability of Datrium DVX. The DVX is the first storage system to split server-powered speed from appliance-based durable capacity, dramatically simplifying storage performance management. A 32-host DVX with the new NetShelf can reach up to 1 million IOPS, using data-reduced commodity server flash capacity, at a radically lower price than array flash.

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Datrium Performance Scaling

DVX Hyperdriver software leverages VM servers with SSDs for performance. Total bandwidth can be up to 30k IOPS per host using current Haswell 2-socket servers. Performance achieved depends on the specific server CPU and SSDs selected by the administrator. In the current release, the DVX supports up to 32 hosts, for an aggregate 1M IOPS. NetShelf D12X4 write bandwidth across a 10Gb link is up to 800 MB/sec., similar to a 12 Gb SAS-attached drive shelf.

DVX data service functions also run on DVX hosts, so compute can scale for current features like always-on deduplication and compression, VM clone offloads and NetShelf RAID6.

Datrium Dynamic Storage for VMware

With a DVX system, Enterprises can manage storage the way they manage VMs. Each VM and virtual disk can be managed discretely; there are no SAN artifacts to deal with, such as LUNs or zones, host reads are local and writes do not interrupt other hosts. If performance SLAs decay for any reason on any host, simply use standard vMotion to move a workload to a host with more resource headroom, just as one would for CPU or RAM. To upgrade the system’s performance, there is no need to upgrade the NetShelf; just upgrade servers and SSDs from your favorite server vendor. The DVX supports vSphere 5.5 and 6.0. It is on the VMware VCG for NAS.

Datrium Pricing and Availability

Datrium DVX is available immediately in the US from Datrium resellers. International sales will begin in the second half of 2016.

The DVX list price is $125,000. This includes a NetShelf D12X4 appliance and unlimited licenses for DVX Hyperdriver software on vSphere hosts. The NetShelf D12X4 appliance comes with 48 TB raw, or 60TB – 180TB effective capacity at common deduplication and compression rates for Enterprise data (2x-6x). Servers and SSDs must be purchased and supported independently.