ONStor Expands into Japanese Market with Strategic Reseller Agreement

Strategic Insights -

ONStor, a leader in SAN-based file services solutions, has announced a strategic reseller and support agreement with Nissho Electronics to expand its reach into the Japanese marketplace. Under the terms of the agreement, Nissho will offer the ONStor product family within Japan and provide customers with comprehensive service and support. Nissho has also deployed ONStor SAN filers as the exclusive file server technology within its new storage-on-demand service.

Key Takeaways:

  • ONStor has partnered with Nissho Electronics to resell its SAN-based file services solutions in the Japanese market.
  • Nissho will offer the ONStor product family within Japan and provide customers with comprehensive service and support.
  • Nissho has deployed ONStor SAN filers as part of its new storage-on-demand service, which allows enterprise customers to quickly scale storage capabilities in response to changing demand.
  • A major Japanese semiconductor manufacturer is among the customers for the new service offering.
  • ONStor's reseller strategy gives customers the ability to quickly deliver file management solutions to consolidate NAS islands into the data center and simplify storage management.
  • Nissho selected ONStor SAN filers for the storage-on-demand solution due to their scalability, speed, and manageability.

Statistics:

  • ONStor's SAN filer is the industry's only hardware and software platform designed to consolidate enterprise-wide file data on heterogeneous storage area networks (SANs).
  • The ONStor SAN filer uses the industry's most scalable high-performance file storage architecture to ensure continuous data availability and data protection.
  • The newly launched storage-on-demand solution has already been selected by a major Japanese manufacturer to provide file services in support of semiconductor design automation.
  • ONStor has over 10 years of experience in developing and delivering innovative file services management solutions.

Sources:

  • ONStor, Inc. [press release]
  • Enterprise Storage Group [quote from Steve Duplessie]
  • Nissho Electronics [quote from Katsumi Yokoyama]
  • ONStor, Inc. [About ONStor section]