Huawei Symantec: Recent News

World Record Performance:

Huawei Symantec's1.3PB Clustered NAS, HPC installation shattered the SPECsfs2008 NFS benchmark with 636,036 ops per second-27% faster than the old record.

"Huawei Symantec has blown EMC and its nearly all-flash VNX off the SPECsfs2008 benchmark throne with a clustered NAS system without using SSDs." - The Register

Gartner Highlights:

Gartner is positioning Huawei Symantec's unified NAS storage as "Visionary" in their magic quadrant stating that it has "... the potential of disrupting the market".

"As a newcomer to the enterprise NAS market, Symantec/Huawei Symantec offers a scalable NAS solution that leverages mature Symantec technologies, such as Veritas Storage Foundation, integrated NetBackup client for faster backup than NDMP, native operation of Symantec Anti-Virus, and integration with Enterprise Vault - the leading e-mail archiving solution in the market. Other notable features include automated capacity load balancing, fast node failover within a cluster, and policy-based storage tiering within a cluster."

- Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High End NAS Solutions. March 2011

15PB Scale-out NAS:

Huawei Symantec has built the ThunderCloud NAS Cluster with a15PB global namespace, encompassing 40 cabinets, 7,680 HDDs, 1TB cache and 22 controller chassis covering 100 square meters of floor space and drawing 208 KW of total power.

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