Partner Spotlight: QSAN
QSAN Technology Inc. is a technology company founded in 2004 which initially was focused on developing RAID controllers for IP-based storage area networks (SANs) for small and medium businesses.
QSAN gradually established itself as an iSCSI storage solution expert and pioneer, expanding its product line to include full RAID storage arrays. In 2009 they launched QSAN P300H and P500H iSCSI redundant controller storage solutions which were shown integrated into partner storage products, like the UltraStor ES3160, at Computex Taipei.
With subsequent iSCSI and Fibre Channel SAN solution launches their product line evolved, leading to the well-known XCube series of storage appliances. In 2018, QSAN launched XCubeFAS, their first all-flash array system and in that same year certified ATTO Technology Celerity™ 16Gb Gen 6 FC HBAs and ATTO FastFrame™ 10GbE NICs with QSAN XCubeFAS (all-flash arrays) and XCubeSAN (hybrid arrays) and ExpressSAS™ 12Gb HBAs with QSAN XCubeDAS.
The Sales Director of QSAN at the time said of the certifications “working with ATTO is an exciting move as we expect to deliver maximum performance and ensure best user experience.”
Today, QSAN’s product portfolio includes fabric-attached storage (FAS), network-attached storage (NAS), storage area network (SAN), and direct-attached storage (DAS) systems covering a wide range of needs. Along with their hardware products, they also provide SAN, NAS, and DAS software solutions for surveillance, backup, and virtualization applications.
Just this past January, QSAN and ATTO jointly announced that ATTO Celerity™ 32Gb Gen 6 Fibre Channel HBAs and ATTO FastFrame™ 25GbE Smart NICs have been certified for use across all QSAN product categories.
The certifications, conducted by QSAN, cover nearly the entire QSAN product range including QSAN XCube FAS, QSAN XCube NXT, QSAN XCube NAS, and QSAN XCube SAN. The collaboration ensures compatibility between these QSAN storage solutions and ATTO 32Gb Gen 6 Fibre Channel HBAs and ATTO FastFrame 25GbE Smart NICs. QSAN customers with demanding and complex business ecosystems now have multiple, certified low-latency, high-performance options to meet their needs.
QSAN’s 25GbE and 32Gb Fibre Channel solutions provide non-disruptive service and significantly low latency, allowing more virtual machines and large-scale surveillance. QSAN storage allows for lighting-speed backup, transmitting much more data in one physical line than competitors with a higher overall performance of more than 10,000MB/s.
The partnership between ATTO and QSAN combines the latest in storage and connectivity technologies providing exactly what’s needed to overcome countless storage challenges.