Northern Storage Suite Compatible with HP Scalable NAS File Serving for Windows

Northern Parklife Inc. providing storage resource management software announced that Northern Storage Suite is fully compatible with HP Scalable NAS File Serving for Windows. This allows comprehensive management of unstructured data.

 

Northern is a gold member of the HP Information Management and Software Partner Program. Northern and HP worked in tandem to validate the Northern Storage Suite with HP PolyServe Software for Scalable File Serving and HP Scalable NAS File Serving for Windows. Northern Storage Suite’s integration with HP Scalable NAS enables customers to gain control of their user-generated data.

 

HP Scalable NAS provides a fault-tolerant network-attached storage. Northern Storage Suite enables easy management of unstructured data providing granular and scalable storage management with a non-intrusive and low-impact architecture.

 

Customers will benefit from disk quotas, comprehensive reporting, an end-user portal and a storage chargeback. Administrators can identify and reclaim wasted capacity, control usage and thereby maximize storage infrastructure.

 

Thomas Vernersson, Northern’s CEO said, “This announcement is the fruit of several months of co-development with the HP StorageWorks NAS team, providing customers with an efficient, cost-effective means of managing their unstructured data. Northern Storage Suite working in concert with HP Scalable NAS enables organizations to streamline even the most demanding, heterogeneous storage environment, giving IT administrators an unmatched combination of simplicity, flexibility and control across the enterprise.”

 

Northern Storage Suite integrates with HP StorageWorks DAS which enables blocking specific file types and user-based quotas.

 

Ian Duncan, director of marketing, StorageWorks at HP explained that organizations were desirous of saving money and at the same time wanted to maximize the performance and scalability of their storage infrastructure. The combination of the HP StorageWorks Scalable NAS offering and the Northern Storage Suite helps organizations to achieve this besides enabling simplified management.

 

Northern is an international software company which develops reliable, flexible and compatible solutions for storage management. Northern Storage Suite deals with Storage Resource Management in four categories. They are to identify and reclaim wasted storage capacity, control user behavior, plan for future storage needs and make the end-users a part of the storage solution.

 

Northern software helps organizations control and optimize their storage environments. The company operates from six bases situated in Sweden, France, Germany, Amsterdam, the US and the UK.