Iranian Firm Deploys Indigenous Storage Systems in National Data Centers
According to the Economic Desk of Webangah News Agency, a domestic knowledge-based company has made significant strides in designing and deploying indigenous enterprise storage systems in Iran’s data centers. Mehdi Yeganeh, the company’s business development manager, revealed that their core focus is on developing organizational storage solutions, with roots in projects originating from Sharif University of Technology.
The company’s current board chairman, who previously worked in the U.S. and collaborated with EMC Corporation, played a pivotal role in transferring this technical knowledge to Iran. The development path continued through collaboration with Sharif University students, resulting in the market launch of their first product, ‘SE”.
Since 2023, the company has strategically entered the video surveillance sector, developing specialized products for this field. Yeganeh emphasized that only a handful of countries worldwide possess the capability to design such systems, with the U.S., Japan, and China being the main global players.
The business development manager highlighted the distinction between ‘system design’ and ‘raw hardware production’ in the storage industry. Competitive advantage doesn’t necessarily lie in manufacturing components like hard drives, as even major global companies use standard market hardware. The real differentiation comes from hardware and software architecture, control layers, and overall system design – an approach this company has pursued relying on domestic expertise, particularly teams from Sharif University.
Yeganeh detailed that complete system design, software development, and internal architecture were entirely handled by the company’s team. For mechanical components, those feasible for domestic production were manufactured locally. Security considerations and protection frameworks were also defined natively, which holds particular importance for sensitive organizations.
The company’s products combine competitive pricing, appropriate technical quality, and support services as key advantages. Over 500 HPDS storage systems have been installed in various national data centers since 2015, with current operational capacity exceeding 130 petabytes serving diverse organizations.
Clients span government and military entities, civilian organizations, medical universities, hospitals, and communication operators including MCI. Yeganeh explained that anywhere data is generated, especially at organizational scales, there’s need for secure, reliable storage. As data volumes grow, organizations require infrastructure capable of storage, processing, and reliable retrieval – where enterprise storage systems play a crucial role.
An organizational storage system must fully cover standard features of this domain, from data classification and tiering to supporting various RAID levels, data recovery during failures, and ensuring stable access to critical data. The company’s systems support advanced management tools and enable simultaneous data storage across multiple locations, maintaining service through backup systems with minimal disruption if equipment fails.
