JetStor CEO Jim Gallagher joined StorageReview’s Brian Beeler for a 30 minute live “Unwebinar” to unpack how QSAN Unified Storage gives SMBs enterprise-grade HA, unified protocols, and NVMe-oF performance in a simple appliance form factor and at SMB-friendly price points.

Gallagher explains JetStor’s 20+ year partnership with QSAN and dives into the new XN series: a 2U, dual-controller NVMe appliance with 26 NVMe bays, unified block and file services, and high-speed connectivity options including Fibre Channel and up to 200 GbE. Tested by StorageReview, the system exceeded its own published performance specs and can scale to multi-petabyte deployments in a single logical unit.

The conversation also covers why many customers are moving away from complex scale-out stacks and heavily licensed tier one arrays, and instead consolidating workloads such as virtualization, databases, file shares, backup targets, and even GPU-powered AI on a single unified QSAN appliance. Gallagher shares how QSAN often comes in at roughly half the cost of tier one alternatives, why Proxmox and other open hypervisors are gaining traction after the VMware and Broadcom changes, and how cloud is shifting toward backup and hybrid designs rather than “move everything” strategies.

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Watch the full session to get the complete technical walkthrough and real-world use cases directly from JetStor and StorageReview.

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