'Don't buy new filers - spice up your old ones'
By: Chris Mellor
Posted 21st February 2012 10:41 GMT
NetApp support outfit Zerowait says its customers should not bother to buy new NetApp filers, when it can accelerate the old ones with its caching appliance.
The firm's NASAGNA – NAS Acceleration and Global Namespace Appliance (our acronym) – is a tasty dish that sticks a box containing a mix of DRAM, solid state drives and SAS disks plus caching software, in front of NetApp filers and accelerates I/O requests fro accessing servers. It's in the Avere FXT mould of a multi-tiered caching appliance without as many tiers and minus the the finely detailed I/O type granularity of the ex-Spinnaker Avere founder's caching algorithms.
