If I had to identify the greatest change in network troubleshooting tools over the last three years, I would point to back-in-time troubleshooting or what many call retrospective network analysis (RNA).
The amazing thing isn’t the number of companies troubleshooting with RNA, rather it’s the increased number of requests we get for larger solutions.
Initially, we released GigaStor Expandable, which scales from 12 TB to 48 TB. A few months back we ran into a request from a US military client asking for greater storage capacity. With that in mind, we released 288 TB of scalable storage power in GigaStor SAS just a few days back. It’s the largest RNA device currently available. It caters to a fairly specific market as our president, Douglas Smith explained in a recent interview with TechWorld:
“GigaStor SAS customers have so far been either government or financial organisations with extremely large storage and/or long-term data retention needs…The larger storage needs are due to either high network volumes, or regulations that mandate and govern long-term data retention. Coupled with the trend to consolidate activities into larger data centres, customer demand for larger, scalable solutions will continue to increase.”
See GigaStor 288 TB at Interop New York
The GigaStor SAS / Expandable appliance hardware will be on display the Network Instruments booth (#329) at Interop NYC. Stop by and check it out. You can also read the press release for more info.
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