I. What is NAS

Since its birth in the 1990s, highly reliable and high-performance SAN storage has been the first choice for core database applications. Around 2000, the rise of the Internet accelerated the digital and intelligent processes of thousands of industries, and unstructured data grew rapidly, with 80% of the new data being unstructured data. At the same time, unstructured data is entering the core production and decision-making systems of enterprises.
In order to achieve highly reliable storage and efficient sharing of massive unstructured data, NAS storage came into being. NAS is the development and continuation of traditional network file server technology and is a dedicated network file server. It has three characteristics: an embedded operating system, rich permission management, and is specifically redesigned and optimized for file systems to provide efficient file services. It improves the processing power, reliability, access continuity, and scalability of the file system.

II. Current Problems with Enterprise File Management and Access

● Unstructured massive file data surges: When the file capacity becomes smaller and the number of files increases, OPS performance drops sharply
● Different users have different needs for file processing: file access network is simple, but there are high management requirements for application environment, permissions, security, etc.
● Business continuity affects R&D and production efficiency: When files become production materials, data loss and access interruption have a fatal impact on business

III. Advantages of High-Performance NAS

Cross-platform protocol sharing, complete file management functions
● SMB V2.0/V3.0/V3.1.1, NFS V3.0/4.0/4.1, FTP/HTTP/SFTP, S3 and other protocols are supported, and NTFS/UNIX/NATIVE/MIX four security modes are supported, making cross-protocol sharing easier.
● WORM, RBAC, log audit, anti-virus and other all-round data protection, providing end-to-end anti-ransomware solutions to ensure the security of key files
● Tenant, Quota, audit, multi-factor authentication, separation of powers and other permission control strategies to protect the high-security file platform
● Server-free migration, automatic file flow across storage, providing efficient management of the entire data lifecycle
 

Innovative distributed file system architecture, one step faster
● FlashLink flash memory intelligent algorithm combined with end-to-end NVMe protocol, OPS performance is 30% higher than the industry, and bandwidth is 50% higher than the industry
● Globally shared distributed file system, directory balancing algorithm eliminates controller bottlenecks, and intelligent layout algorithm improves file traversal and positioning speed by 30%
● The new architecture based on innovative hardware provides a high-performance experience for every user

Enterprise-level data protection, business is stable online
● SmartMatrix3.0 fully interconnected AA architecture ensures stable operation of the business in the event of 8 controller failures and 1 engine failure
● SSD wear & anti-wear balancing technology achieves 3 million hours of MTBF, and the innovative RAID-TP technology tolerates simultaneous failure of any 3 disks, effectively coping with the data protection challenges of the large-capacity SSD era
● HyperMetro gateway-free NAS Active-Active dual-active, realizes load balancing between two sites, RPO=0, RTO≈0