Cold Storage
Cold Storage, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AMS Group, is a forerunning solution provider specializes in developing innovative storage solutions for COLD multimedia content and archived data. Combining proven experience in cold content storage system implementation and strong customer focus, Cold Storage delivers highly performed and cost effective solutions that enable organizations to store and quickly retrieve large amount of cold data.
In the past, storage architecture such as those provided by the computer vendors and data storage vendors are designed for applications with which vast quantity of data in small size are read and write to storage media frequently, such as Oracle, SAP, IBM applications. Technology developments allow organizations to adopt multimedia applications for improved services and better efficiency. For example, medical practitioners use picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) to file and share medical records and images such as X-rays and ultrasound with remote locations.
Multimedia applications are also flourishing among our daily life. High-speed Internet and wireless network development, together with the widespread of multimedia gadgets like digital camera, mobile phone and personal computer, nourish multimedia applications in our daily life. Every day, hundreds of thousands images, pictures, videos and other multimedia content are created and transmitted over the Internet and wireless networks via applications like “You-Tube”, blogs, IPTV and mobile TV.
While most of the information generated from conventional applications are usually structured and smaller in size, multimedia content are usually less structured and larger in format. These applications demand for a new breed of storage solution that can better serve these massive data transactions.
Cold Storage’s storage solution, StorageZone™ features unparalleled performance, availability, scalability and manageability, is designed to suit the data storage and management requirement for cold content and multimedia applications. Cold Storage offers the right data storage solution that can provide the highest performance, help lower infrastructure investment and cost of ownership, improve service reliability, and simplify system management.
What do we Offer
StorageZone Network Attached Storage Gateway
The StorageZone™ NAS Gateway family is a network based solution designed to provide heterogeneous access to multiple storage subsystems. The Gateway provides you the connectivity to the IP networks and SAN Storage, for increased efficiency and access to existing SAN Storage. Running on StorageZone OS, a NAS operating system designed and optimized to support mixed storage environment, StorageZone NAS Gateway family features a comprehensive suite of data management features and capabilities with easy-to-use GUI that can improve data availability and integrity.
Based on the StorageZone OS, the gateway architecture delivers independent scalability and capacity growth with high availability. The NAS gateway family provides seamless, easy-to-use management that can scales as your need grows, while delivering cost efficiency and reducing complexity of your legacy solutions.
Based on the StorageZone OS, the gateway architecture delivers independent scalability and capacity growth with high availability, yet affordable with true easy-to-use built-ins. Through the integrated GUI management system, the NAS gateway family provides seamless, easy-to-use management that can scales as your need grows, while delivering cost efficiency and reducing complexity of your legacy solutions.
All-in-One Network Attached Storage Appliance
StorageZone™ A series All-in-One Network Attached Storage (NAS) Appliance is designed to address the demands for the evolving storage environment. These NAS appliances offer outstanding performance and data management value with unparalleled affordability.
StorageZone NAS appliances offer an unified storage architecture with versatility to simultaneously meet diverse needs while providing high level of availability. These appliances support a variety of heterogeneous systems and data sharing among disparate platforms. It is designed to provide unified storage access for multiprotocol, multivendor storage environments, which can meet a range of storage needs, from small remote office and departmental applications, to demanding data storage applications and consolidations.
The A series offers built-in management and monitoring console to support your efforts to increase reliability, simplify maintenance, and deliver exceptional cost efficiency.
Key Benefits
Powerful, Small Footprint NAS O/S
Our embedded NAS operating system, StorageZone OS, is specially designed for network attached storage environment. The small footprint and versatile design delivers outstanding performance to our NAS platform. StorageZone OS features a comprehensive, integrated management console can help you manage your NAS system remotely with secured remote access. Through the intuitive web-based GUI, the management console offers you a simple-to-use, integrated tool to monitor and manage your users, system, resources and network.
Performance for demanding multimedia applications
StorageZone Family delivers superior I/O performance and network performance. It supports Ethernet trunking of up to 4 trunks at 4 GE each or 2 trunks at 8GE each. The multi-path design provides extra stability and increased speed with load balancing and failover mechanism.
Enhanced Availability and Business Continuity
The StorageZone NAS appliance offers advanced business continuity features to better protect your data and minimize business downtime. It features a variety of remote mirroring and clustering options to deliver high levels of availability and performance. StorageZone Gateway systems can also be configured for simultaneous active/active access with secure failover across two independent systems in a cluster.
Flexible Configuration for Extra Scalability and TOC
Set up as a single head or as a dual-clustered configuration, StorageZone NAS Platform provides quick deployment, unmatched manageability, and seamless integration. The appliances support multi-vendors and multi-protocols environment, the high interoperability provides you the flexibility in choosing storage equipment and combining the NAS system to your legacy infrastructure.