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SolidFire pipes Nitrogen OS 7 into all-flash hardware
Incremental software improvements
SolidFire’s seventh-generation OS for its all-flash arrays introduces incremental improvements in multi-tenancy and data protection.
The company introduced new entry-level and mid-range array products last month, and this is the software filling, so to speak, in the hardware sandwich.
Element OS 7, dubbed Nitrogen, features:
- multi-tenant networking to separate customer or business unit traffic for security, auditing and fault isolation,
- snapshot consistency groups with automated group creation and snapshot execution and
- extra usability features.
SolidFire rack
The extended snapshotting, SolidFire says, removes the need for 3rd party products for "disaster recovery, data protection, large dataset management and data lifecycle management".
SolidFire claims its high-availability, shared-nothing architecture, helps it deliver non-disruptive upgrades, a possible swipe at EMC with its recent disruptive XtremIO upgrade process. ®