NGX Storage has built a full portfolio of unified, all-flash, scale-out NVMe and object storage systems as demonstrated at the IT Press Tour.
Founded in Ankara in 2015, NGX Storage has spent a decade building enterprise storage infrastructure for telecoms, government agencies, and heavy industry across four continents. At IT Press Tour #67 in Sofia, CEO Beyhan Çalışkan presented the company’s product portfolio and outlined an expansion plan aimed squarely at Western Europe.
Storage administration had become too complex, and the fragmentation of NAS, SAN, and object platforms was forcing organisations to manage infrastructure rather than use it. The answer was a unified system that handles all three protocols from a single platform and management interface. Today NGX Storage serves what it describes as 99% enterprise clients—telecoms operators, defence contractors, universities, healthcare institutions, oil and gas companies, and media organisations. Among its reference accounts, the company lists a Turkish telco managing over 35 million subscribers, Turkish government ministries and the presidency, and Turkish Aerospace Industries, which uses NGX systems for helicopter and drone simulation workloads.
From a financing perspective, NGX Storage is an outlier. The company took a single seed investment at founding and has since grown entirely through operating revenue—at rates Çalışkan described as 80% to 300% year-on-year depending on macroeconomic conditions. With a headcount now exceeding 100 employees, it operates R&D centres in Pune and Bengaluru in addition to its Ankara headquarters, drawing engineers from established names including NetApp, IBM, Oracle, and Dell.
The product portfolio spans five lines. The NGX-H is a dual-controller hybrid storage array supporting up to 38 petabytes raw capacity, with Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, and S3 protocol support alongside 64 Gb/s Fibre Channel and 100 Gb/s Ethernet interfaces. The NGX-AFA is the equivalent all-flash variant, scaling to 34 petabytes and using SAS and NVMe SSDs exclusively. Both systems support inline compression, deduplication, thin provisioning, and a range of RAID levels including triple-parity configurations. For business continuity, NGX offers a MetroScale Cluster option that provides active-active datacenter operation with zero recovery time and recovery point objectives, supporting SAP, Oracle, Red Hat, and Windows workloads across geographically separated sites.
Two newer products address scale-out requirements. The NGX ExaScale is a software-defined, scale-out NVMe block storage system built for AI training, high-performance computing, and data-intensive workloads. It uses NVMe-over-Fabrics with both RDMA and TCP transport, deploys on commodity x86 servers certified with partners including Supermicro, and currently scales to tens of petabytes—with hundreds of petabytes targeted in future releases. Storage class memory handles write ingestion and metadata in triplicate copies, with capacity data protected via RAID-6 groups of six drives. The design deliberately avoids erasure coding at the network level to preserve performance headroom. Çalışkan noted that the software can be installed on any compatible Open Compute server, which he described as key to addressing the differing hardware certification regimes across India, the EU, the UK, the UAE, and Turkey. The second scale-out system is NGX HyperIO, a scale-out object store using S3-compatible APIs, designed for secondary storage, backup, archiving, analytics, and streaming media. Nodes support 24 to 60 drives, up to 200 GbE connectivity, and SSD or NVMe tiers for metadata acceleration. HyperIO uses erasure coding rather than RAID, reflecting the different cost and performance priorities of object workloads.
Rounding out the portfolio is a Scale-Out NAS implementation built on parallel NFS (pNFS), SMB3, and S3. The architecture places NGX-AFA systems in the metadata server role while NGX-AFA or hybrid systems handle data. Çalışkan highlighted that by resolving RAID calculations at the controller backplane rather than across the network, the design avoids the traffic overhead typical of distributed file systems, enabling six-nines availability for file workloads. The system can also ingest third-party NFS data servers alongside NGX hardware, providing investment protection for existing installations.
“We are competing with United States and Chinese companies, very hard.” Pricing is positioned aggressively, with the company deliberately compressing margins to build installed base, particularly in regions where currency volatility has created cost pressure throughout the supply chain. Rather than qualifying hardware in each jurisdiction separately, NGX can certify server configurations locally and deliver the software stack on top.
Data sovereignty is increasingly central to the company’s pitch in European markets. Çalışkan drew a direct line between current geopolitical tensions, cross-border data flows to hyperscaler infrastructure, and the appetite among European public-sector and regulated-industry clients for storage platforms that keep data under local control. “We are investing in Europe,” he said, “not United States or some other places.” With a production-proven portfolio, a cash-generative business model, and a software-defined expansion strategy that sidesteps traditional hardware logistics barriers, NGX Storage is a vendor worth tracking as European organisations reassess their infrastructure supply chains.
Dr. Jakob Jung is Editor-in-Chief of Security Storage and Channel Germany. He has been working in IT journalism for more than 20 years. His career includes Computer Reseller News, Heise Resale, Informationweek, Techtarget (storage and data center) and ChannelBiz. He also freelances for numerous IT publications, including Computerwoche, Channelpartner, IT-Business, Storage-Insider and ZDnet. His main topics are channel, storage, security, data center, ERP and CRM.
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