Public cloud scalability, economics and resilience models are three macroforces affecting IT. Storage specialist Coraid's response to these trends is the new ZX4000 File Storage Appliance, a storage building-block solution for both enterprise and cloud deployments that combines Flash performance, multi-petabyte scale and distributed resilience. Coraid suggests that the ZX solution's unique architecture allows for a potentially limitless pool of elastic, shared, block storage that easily scales performance via the addition of more ZX appliances. The ZX4000 can be deployed in a resilient architecture that offers protection against up to three shelf or drive failures while retaining high storage efficiencies of around 80%. This enterprise-class storage solution, says Coraid, is available at a cost comparable to consumer-grade public cloud services and at a fraction of the cost of legacy NAS storage. Since its introduction in 2012, the ZX product line has been deployed by customers in a wide variety of applications including backup, public and private clouds, and media.
