Sangfor aStor is designed to address the growing demands of data storage in modern enterprises. By consolidating various storage types—block, file, and object—into a unified resource pool, it enables elastic expansion and on-demand allocation, ensuring flexibility and adaptability to changing business requirements. Its fully symmetrical distributed architecture allows for seamless scalability, starting from as few as three x86 server nodes, facilitating efficient management of storage resources while minimizing total cost of ownership (TCO). Available as both an integrated hardware-software appliance and a software-only solution, aStor integrates advanced technologies such as RDMA and intelligent caching to deliver high throughput and IOPS performance, catering to both structured and unstructured data workloads. Additionally, it incorporates robust data protection mechanisms, including snapshots, replication, and erasure coding, ensuring data integrity and reliability with a 99.9999% data reliability rate.

Features:

• Unified Storage Platform: Combines block, file, and object storage into a single system, simplifying management and reducing infrastructure complexity.
• Scalability: Supports seamless expansion by adding nodes as needed, allowing storage capacity and performance to grow with business demands.
• High Performance: Utilizes technologies like RDMA and intelligent caching to achieve high throughput and IOPS, meeting the needs of both structured and unstructured data workloads.
• Data Protection: Offers features such as snapshots, replication, and erasure coding to ensure data integrity and high availability.
• Cost Efficiency: Employs standard x86 hardware and a software-defined approach to reduce capital and operational expenditures.
• Flexible Deployment: Available as an integrated hardware-software appliance or as a software-only solution, accommodating various IT environments.