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| Hammer Z-Series Network Storage Line Now Shipping Hammer Storage has announced that its new line of network storage, the Hammer Z-Series, is now shipping. Suited for small to medium businesses, Bell Microproducts expanded the Hammer line to fill a disparity in the market by adding Zetera Corporation's Z-SAN Storage-over-IP (SoIP) technology to create the Hammer Z-Series. The Z-Series product family is enabled by Zetera's Z-SAN technology, the only technology available that delivers on the vision of SoIP. SoIP uses Internetworking Protocol (IP) as the only storage fabric, eliminating the need for costly controllers, dedicated switches and RAID controllers that also serve as performance bottlenecks. The first Hammer Z-Series solutions include the Z-Box desktop and the Z-Rack 1U rackmount solutions with capacities of up to two terabytes per device. The desktop delivers a superior price/performance advantage over competing desktop 4-bay NAS products. The 1U rackmount competes with rackmount NAS and entry-level SAN solutions by providing better performance, scalability and reliability at a very attractive price point. For example, Hammer Z-Rack and Zetera's Z-SAN technology were recently selected by MIT's Media Lab as key components in the construction of one of the largest and highest performance data storage arrays in the world. The storage array, which will grow to 1.4 petabytes over three years, will be used to collect and analyze video and audio data for a research project designed to better understand early childhood cognitive development. The Hammer Z-Series offers several exclusive features unavailable through competing products: - Eliminates need for and cost of specialized hardware like Fibre Channel switches, host-bus adapters, TCP offload engines and RAID controllers - Aggregates for capacity up to 128 PB per volume across multiple enclosures - Aggregates for performance of 10+ GB/sec across multiple enclosures - Distributed RAID delivers hardware RAID functionality and the ability to extend RAID volumes across physical enclosures - Multi-initiator file system delivers NAS-like file and volume sharing on a block-based device - Z-SAN technology from Zetera simultaneously optimizes on performance, scalability, reliability and cost Other Hammer Z-Series features include: - Support for up to four (4) SATA-1 or SATA-2 disk drives - Support for capacities up to 2 terabytes, configured to order - Gigabit Ethernet network interface - Optimized performance up to 80 MB/sec per enclosure - Compact Z-Box desktop or industry-standard Z-Rack 1U rackmount form factors - Compatibility with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Redhat Linux 4 - Hammer Personal Storage Manager software suite. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |