BlueArc's Next Generation Platform for Consolidation
| Mercury | 50 | 100 |
| IOPS | 60,000 | 100,000 |
| NFS Throughput | Up to 700 MB/s |
Up to 1,100 MB/s |
| Scalability | Up to 4PB in a single namespace | Up to 8PB in a single namespace |
| Ethernet Ports | 2x 10GbE and 6x GbE | 2x 10GbE and 6x GbE |
| Fibre Channel Ports | 4x 4Gb | 4x 4Gb |
| Clustering Ports | 2x 10GbE | 2x 10GbE |
| Comparison of Mercury Network Storage Performance | ||
The BlueArc Mercury™ Server is a next generation network storage platform that consolidates capacity across multiple applications and simplifies storage management for businesses with mid-range storage requirements - without compromising performance and scalability. The Mercury platform deploys BlueArc's SiliconFS file system, and its open architecture excels across a variety of application environments, including general purpose file systems, database, messaging and online fixed content. Mercury provides for an optimized storage solution that:
- Consolidates application storage requirements, leveraging advanced file system capabilities and virtualization to reduce the TCO of storage infrastructures
- Enables the highest performance and scalability of any product in its class through a hardware accelerated file system
- Simplifies management of large, dynamic data sets with Intelligent Tiered Storage to reduce the cost of keeping more data online
- Supports best-in-class storage devices and complementary third-party technologies through an integrated Storage Ecosystem to eliminate storage silos
