Storage Hardware
Four Corners offers a variety of storage hardware products ranging from very high performance solid state disks to very high capacity with a small footprint. Our storage hardware vendor partners are:
For more information on these products, please see below.
Active Storage
We formed Active Storage because we saw an unfilled need for easy-to-use high performance storage for Apple users. As a team of storage veterans with many award-winning and innovative products behind us, we believe that with the right mix of hard work, dedication and an innovative spirit we can make a difference and deliver the best user experience possible while offering a compelling price/performance advantage. We know storage and we know user needs. We understand that we cannot be everything to everyone, so we have chosen to be the best in the Apple marketplace.
ActiveRAID
The Active Storage ActiveRAID is the evolution of high performance, high-availability RAID storage for Apple users. Designed for Enterprise class 24/7 365 day deployments and the heavy-duty cycles of Post-Product and Broadcast environments. Highly optimized for Apple Xsan and Mac OS X Server applications delivering the highest throughput and reliability under severe use conditions. The Active Storage ActiveRAID provides the highest level of performance, reliability and scalability in its class.
High-performance, High-availability, massive capacity, and the first native Mac OS X storage management suite. The Active Storage ActiveRAID™ represents an evolution in storage for Apple users. Developed with one goal in mind, to deliver the best overall experience for Apple users; performance, reliability, capacity, and out of the box ease of use. From the highly redundant architecture to the artfully designed enclosure, the Active Storage ActiveRAID™ is a truly differentiated RAID system with the styling and performance that Apple users demand. Whether deployed in a direct-attached server environment or a complex Xsan configuration, the Active Storage ActiveRAID™ is the ideal solution to your storage needs. The system is fully configured and ready to use out of the box. Simply install it into your equipment rack, attach power, Ethernet, and Fibre Channel cables. Power it on and walk to your Mac. Insert the Active Admin CD and discover the newly installed RAID through Bonjour on your network. Select your environment, name the system, and you are ready to go.
Dot Hill
Economically Responsible Storage
Dot Hill is an engineering and storage product development company that has a proven record of designing and bringing to market some of the most successful storage solutions for SAS, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI SANs.
EcoStorTM and Data-In-Place Migration
Our latest generation R/Evolution technology presents a true and unique move towards Green Storage through completely eliminating the need for cache backup batteries, saving the environment and also reducing service costs for the end user. In addition our battery-free cache design provides a permanent backup of unwritten cache data in the event of a power failure unlike traditional battery based designs, which typically hold data for up to 72 hours assuming a fully charged battery.
Both our latest generation 2000 and 5000 series storage array's support battery-free cache backup which is part of our ongoing EcoStor Green Storage initiative. EcoStor will deliver a series of energy saving and environmentally responsible technologies such as drive spin-down and our unique Data-In-Place Migration which maximizes the life-cycle of your customers investment in storage technology. Read the Dot Hill Data-In-Place Migration & EcoStor Solution Sheet.
Unique Benefits
Address Multiple Markets from a Single Platform
Support multiple storage market segments from a platform that shares expansion components, field replaceable units and a common web based management interface - providing far simpler upgrades, service and support.
Reduction in cost of spares
Commonality between the 2000 and the 5000 leads to a reduced requirement for spares holding for those resellers that offer this service. A similar benefit will also apply in the form of commonality of system administration tools.
Download the Product Selection Guide here
ExaGrid
ExaGrid's byte-level data deduplication solution stores changes from backup to backup instead of storing full file copies. This unique approach reduces the disk space required by 10 to 50:1, delivering
unparalleled cost savings and performance.
ExaGrid offers a highly scalable disk backup solution that works with your existing backup application and combines high quality SATA storage, compression and byte-level data deduplication with a virtualized GRID architecture. This unique approach reduces the disk space required for backup by a range of 10 to 50:1, delivers best-in-class scalability and unparalleled cost savings.
Scalable GRID Architecture
There are five core ExaGrid disk-based backup servers. These servers include GRID computing software. When plugged into a switch they virtualize into one another. As a result, any of the five configurations can be mixed and matched into a single GRID system, with full backup capacities up to 30TB, in 1TB increments. Once virtualized, they appear as a single system to the backup server. Load balancing of all data across servers is automatic and multiple GRID systems can be combined for additional capacity.
ExaGrid's unique approach to scalability provides the following benefits:
- Performance is maintained as your data grows - each additional ExaGrid server added to a system provides disk, processor, memory and GigE
- Capacity utilization is load-balanced across servers - as a single server reaches full utilization, it can leverage space available on other servers in the GRID
- Plug and play expansion - adding an additional ExaGrid server is as simple as plugging it in and letting ExaGrid's automatic virtualized GRID software do the rest
- Cost-effective, system "right-sizing" - acquire just what you need now, add more later as data grows
Post Process Data Deduplication
ExaGrid's innovative approach minimizes the amount of data to be stored by providing standard data compression for the most recent backups, along with byte-level data deduplication for all previous backups. ExaGrid's post-process deduplication technology stores changes from backup to backup instead of storing full file copies. This unique approach reduces the disk space required by at least 10, and up to 50 to 1, delivering unparalleled performance for the fastest backups and restores, all in a solution that costs the same as a new tape library.
On-site and Off-site, or Multi-site Disk-based Backup
In addition to single site, ExaGrid supports multi-site topologies. Each site can act as a data backup target for storage of local backups. Further, each site can transfer just the changed bytes to an off-site location so that the off-site location can perform data recovery if the local site is lost. This support is bi-directional allowing systems used as off-site repositories to also act as local targets for data backups at those sites. With two-site configurations, it is very common to have both systems act as a local data backup target and to cross-protect each other by replicating the local data to the opposing site. With multi-site topologies, a centrally located site may cross protect with one of the other locations for long-term retention and disaster recovery for the central site backup data.
Scale Computing
Scale Computing is serious about storage, IT budgets and IT SLAs. Our patent-pending TrueCluster™ technology combines commodity hardware with a clustered file system commonly found only in the world’s largest supercomputers. The result: IT managers can scale storage 1TB at a time in a migrationless environment that has no single point of failure and costs 70% less than other solutions on the market.
Scale Computing is meeting a market need for enterprise class, truly scalable grid storage at a much lower total cost of ownership than was available previously. We can do this because our architecture lets us use commodity hardware; other solutions require proprietary hardware that drives up costs significantly. Scale currently has three products in our Storage Node (SN) product line. All are perfect for archiving and virtualization:
SN1000 - Mega Cost Effective
For companies that want maximum performance, scaling with 1TB units increases spindles, I/O speeds and gives you the maximum available ports per user.
- 1TB configurations
- Migrationless scalability
- No single point of failure
- Single, easy to use management UI
SN2000 - Cost Effective
For companies that want Performance, but also greater capacity the SN2000 offers 2TB of storage per appliance:
- 2TB configurations
- Migrationless scalability
- No single point of failure
- Single, easy to use management UI
SN4000 - Higher Density
For companies that want maximum storage density, the SN4000 offers 4TB of storage per appliance.
4TB configurations
- Migrationless scalability
- No single point of failure
- Single, easy to use management UI
Spend your budget elsewhere, add storage without migrating data or disrupting services. Now that's infrastructure scaling the right way.
Texas Memory Systems
TMS RamSan products offer a variety of performance, capacity, configuration, and cost options to accelerate essential applications in industries ranging from financial services, telecommunications, and e-commerce to oil and gas, entertainment, and gaming, as well as governmental and commercial high performance computing environments.
TMS Flash
Flash-based SSDs are rapidly becoming major players in enterprise data centers. TMS was one of the first to offer Flash-based storage solutions that were reliable and fast enough for enterprise deployment. Beginning with our RamSan-500, a fusion of RAM and Flash technologies, our Flash product line is rapidly expanding toward larger capacities and lower costs.
TMS RamSan
TMS RAM SSDs are the World's Fastest Storage®. No other storage products can match the I/Os per second or provide the massive bandwidth a RamSan can provide. Hundreds of locations around the world use TMS products to accelerate databases, SANs, batch processes, and other high performance applications.
Click on the products below for more information.
Flash Storage |
RAM Storage |
| RamSan-500 | RamSan-400 |
| RamSan-620 | RamSan-440 |
| RamSan-5000 | RamSan-300 |
| Write Accelerator |
