MYPHOTOALBUM.COM SELECTS ONSTOR NAS GATEWAY
TO MANAGE ONLINE ARCHIVE OF 13 MILLION PHOTOS
LOS GATOS, CA - November 29, 2005 -
ONStor Inc., the leader in Enterprise NAS Gateway solutions, today
announced that MyPhotoAlbum (www.myphotoalbum.com) has chosen the
Bobcat NAS Gateway as the cornerstone of its storage environment to
support MyPhotoAlbum’s online photo sharing service.
MyPhotoAlbum currently hosts 13 million photos on 28 terabytes
of Nexsan ATABeast RAID storage accessed via an ONStor Bobcat 2260 NAS
gateway. With its storage requirements doubling every 120 days,
MyPhotoAlbum needed a solution that was highly scalable and
vendor-neutral so that NAS server performance and storage capacity
could be scaled independently to keep pace with its rapidly changing
storage demands.
According to Chris Ferry, director of
operations and systems administration at MyPhotoAlbum, the decision to
purchase ONStor was an easy one, based on the freedom to select
vendor-independent storage and simplicity of storage administration.
“The majority of the storage vendors tied me down with their disk
solutions which were severely overpriced,”said Ferry. “With ONStor's
virtualization capabilities I'm free to switch disk vendors without
having to migrate the data. We also enjoy the easy administration
ONStor provides. We had the unit installed, configured and deployed in
less than two weeks.”
“MyPhotoAlbum is typical of many enterprise
customers with fast-growing storage environments who demand highly
scalable solutions without the usual vendor lock-in that prevents them
from achieving the lowest possible storage TCO,” said Jon Toor, vice
president of marketing at ONStor. “ONStor is the only vendor with an
open NAS gateway having the requisite performance, scalability and open
storage support to meet enterprise data consolidation, data mirroring
and content delivery demands.”
The MyPhotoAlbum deployment enables six Linux web servers to access 14
TB of storage via the ONStor Bobcat 2260 NAS gateway over NFS,
supporting one million page views per day. The backend storage consists
of two Nexsan ATABeast arrays with 14 TB of capacity each deployed in a
mirrored configuration.
ONStor's Bobcat Series of
easy-to-deploy and simple-to-manage NAS Gateways and industry standard
storage arrays deliver scalable, shared storage to Windows, UNIX and
Linux clients and servers. Because ONStor NAS Gateways are
interoperable with the industry's broadest range of storage arrays,
customers are free to choose the storage that best fits their business
needs, eliminating vendor lock-in. ONStor's NAS Gateways consolidate
enterprise-wide file services for Windows, UNIX and Linux clients and
servers onto Fibre Channel attached, multi-vendor disk arrays. Taking
the best of both worlds, ONStor NAS Gateways combine all the ease of
deployment and simplicity of management of conventional NAS with the
scalability and flexibility of SAN. Built on a 64-bit symmetric
multiprocessing pipelined architecture that employs high-speed network
processors more commonly found in network infrastructure products,
ONStor delivers the industry�s highest performance open NAS gateways
with three times the performance of NetApp products and
enterprise-class scalability to 40 Petabytes of capacity and more than
10,000 users.
About MyPhotoAlbum
Founded in 2003, MyPhotoAlbum, My Memories Shared My Way, (http://www.myphotoalbum.com. ) is a trusted leader in personalized online photo sharing. The company provides consumers hundreds of personalization features that include a simple, memorable MyPhotoAlbum address. The service allows customers to make storing, sharing, and printing digital, email, and mobile photos an interactive experience with family and friends.
About ONStor
ONStor is the leader in enterprise-class NAS Gateways that consolidate
file services on multi-vendor storage. ONStor storage solutions
dramatically reduce management costs by providing customers with the
most easily scaled storage environment, and reduce capital costs by
delivering the freedom and flexibility of the industry's most
interoperable platform. ONStor products and technology are offered by
leading system integrators and resellers worldwide. All products are
backed by a host of support offerings and by ONStor's uncompromising
commitment to customer service. More information about ONStor can be
found at www.ONStor.com or by calling toll-free 877-2ON-STOR
(877-266-7867).
