Symantec is making its own cloud storage platform available for organisations around the world to manage large volumes of data.

Already used to provide more than 40 petabytes of online storage for more than nine million active users. FileStore is available from $US6,995.for two nodes and two CPU sockets. A single FileStore system scales up to 16 nodes, and 2 PB of total storage.

With FileStore, organisations can add or remove storage dynamically without taking systems offline. FileStore integrates natively with Symantec’s leading security and information management solutions, including Symantec NetBackup and Symantec Endpoint Protection.

These services run directly on the FileStore nodes, thereby reducing performance bottlenecks, enhancing security and simplifying operations by eliminating the requirement for additional server and storage resources for backup and security.

“FileStore delivers new innovations in storage architecture driven largely by Internet, service provider and SaaS companies. By combining commodity hardware with high-value storage software, these companies are creating file-based storage architectures with equivalent performance and availability and at even larger scales than enterprises—but for a fraction of the cost,” said Jeff Reed, vice president of clustered storage at Symantec.