The Nextra™ Breakthrough

A winning new storage paradigm for the enterprise

XIV Ltd., creator of Nextra™, has undertaken to design and produce the next generation of enterprise-class SAN (Storage Area Networks) systems. Nextra was created based on the principle of providing a simple solution for meeting the herculean IT challenges of today and tomorrow.

Nextra is an innovative, fully-scalable enterprise storage system based on a grid of standard, off-the-shelf hardware components. It is the first single-architecture storage system in the industry, providing the highest level of performance, reliability and features, together with management simplicity and exceptional TCO.

Nextra's outstanding business benefits provide superior capabilities enhance the level of services to enterprise users while reducing TCO.

Here's a quick look at Nextra highlights:

• Performance – High performance and no hot spots, while maintaining consistent performance at all times
• Reliability – Supreme reliability and availability delivered through a rebuild time of 15 minutes and unique, grid-based system redundancy
• Easy management – Built-in virtualization that dramatically simplifies storage management
• Functionality – A rich features offering, including:
  • Snapshots - Unlimited differential snapshots created in zero time  and having virtually no impact on performance
  • Remote mirroring - Full remote mirroring offering total protection, even against complete site failure situations
  • Thin provisioning - Use of physical capacity for real data only regardless of logical size, reducing capital and operational expenses, and enabling "greener" power consumption
• TCO – High-level storage at far less than typical costs, made possible through use of high capacity drives, easy management and reduced power consumption
• Single-architecture storage – A revolutionary approach in which one system handles all storage needs, simplifying storage management and making ILM and related overhead redundant