The ActiveStor 18 hybrid scale-out NAS appliance increases scalability to more than 20 petabytes (PB) and 200 gigabytes per second (GB/s) by adopting 8 terabyte (TB) drive technology. It also offers increased CPU power and twice the storage cache capacity to further accelerate mixed workload performance. By delivering performance and data protection that increases with scale, the appliance is designed to accelerate time-to-results for the most demanding high performance workloads in energy, government, life sciences, manufacturing, media and entertainment and university environments. Whether advancing genomic research using next-gen sequencing technology, rendering visual effects for an animated film, designing advanced aircraft with complex CAE/FEA models, or optimizing the extraction of oil and gas deposits through seismic processing-based analysis, data is accessible, secure and easily managed.