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posted on 07 February 2008 14:37

ONStor has recorded its highest fourth quarter sales total ever and also recorded its third year of 100 percent revenue growth.

Part of the growth comes courtesy of an expansion into China. In total 25 new customers were added from around the globe. The company's clusterable network-attached storage (NAS) products are obviously proving popular.

ONStor managed to have Enterprise Storage Group boss Steve Duplessie put the results in contex: "The world is changing - rapidly.  File based data in the form of digital content is explosive and unpredictable. Web 2.0 is going to become the biggest factor in the commercial computing world than anything that has come before, and that means huge growth of unstructured file data. ONStor is in a perfect place to continue to capitalise on these trends."

ONStor would have us understand that its products are 'designed with n-way clustering, file server virtualisation, and (provide a) single pool of open storage.'

It states that 'ONStor’s clustered NAS products deliver the simplest, most efficient NAS storage management solution on the market today (offering) thin provisioning, replication, business continuity and storage tiering to support the demanding needs of enterprise storage customers.'

Further, 'NAS (products) from ONStor are extremely energy-efficient, with power savings up to 95 percent as compared to both traditional direct-attached and competing networked attached storage environments.'

ONStor sells to customers in the Web 2.0, higher education, aerospace, geo-spatial mapping, and healthcare markets that produce data sets ranging from very large image files to small user files.

 This area of clustered 'filers' is proving very useful for ONStor and competitors such as Isilon and also for F5 (buyer of Acopia) and its virtualising and filer-aggregating ARX product. NetApp's GX version of its products has also been successful in this space with rumours of 4PB of storage in this area at a leading social networking site.