Top 10 Reasons for Bladed Edge Storage or How to Get More for Less

1. More Subscribers/Rack – The Caspian Edge Storage platform delivers up to 50% more subscriber sessions in the same chassis.
2. More Revenue/Rack – The Caspian Edge Storage platform will help you drive up to 50% more subscribers in the same chassis enables more revenue per rack.
3. More Performance/CPU - The Caspian Edge Storage platform enables each server to share the 10Gb fabric to increase the number of transactions per server and drive greater revenue per rack.
4. More Bandwidth – The jump to 10Gb provides the necessary bandwidth for content rich applications. Astute Networks has developed a tightly integrated 10Gb server and storage solution to drive next generation applications.
5. More SMS & IMS – The Caspian Edge Storage platform’s 10Gb architecture provides the increased bandwidth to meet the demands of IMS, VoD, SMS, IPTV and other media-rich on demand services.
6. Less Cost/Subscriber – It costs less to support subscribers with the increased 10Gb bandwidth and the Caspian Edge Storage architecture. Moving from external to internal storage blades enables more servers per rack and lowers the cost of storage. These savings, and increased subscribers in the same footprint, significantly reduce the cost/ subscriber by 50% .
7. Less Acquisition Costs – The move to 10Gb ATCA provides the performance required to make internal storage blades the next step in operator solutions. Transitioning from external RAID to internal storage blades removes the need to add FC HBAs, external RAID Chassis, FC cables, rails and larger power systems.
8. Less Management Overhead – The move from external RAID to ATCA storage blades allows for a simple SNMP management model. Internal storage blades can be configured with fewer shared RAID groups across servers, unlike FC, which due to connectivity limitations, forces administrators to create and manage excess storage pools. Finally, the Caspian Edge Storage platform’s ability to provide remote boot services allow server blades to run in a “stateless” mode to improve OS and application deployment flexibility.
9. Less Power & Cooling – The Caspian Edge Storage platform’s iSCSI boot features enable server blades to run without disk drives to lower power consumption. External FC RAID can require up to six external chassis to support up to 24 servers. These extra RAID chassis can consume up to 4500W vs. 900W for six Caspian Edge Storage blades or 150W per Caspian Storage Blade.
10. Less Operating Costs – The use of Caspian Edge Storage blades in ATCA chassis reduces management costs, installation costs (six blades vs. six chassis, HBAs and cables), power and cooling costs, by eliminating external RAID. The move to internal storage blades additionally reduces ongoing field service and FRU carrying costs vs. external RAID. The Caspian Edge Storage Blade is the first 10Gb iSCSI storage solution for ATCA. It is designed to provide high performance, high availability storage that lowers storage cost/server. Since the Caspian Edge Storage platform is an ATCA storage solution, it is designed to be easy to install, manage, support, configure and deploy.
    

 

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