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| RELDATA's 10GbE 9240 Unified Storage Gateway Appliance Available RELDATA has announced the availability of its 10GbE 9240 Unified Storage Gateway appliance, providing customers with a clear alternative to Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (FC SAN). RELDATA is the first supplier of Unified Storage Solutions to provide a practical 10GbE solution that isn't burdened by the high cost, complexity, scalability and oppressive licensing requirements of conventional FC SAN implementations. The 10GbE 9240 Gateway combines RELDATA's trademark simplified installation, management and data migration features with a highly-scalable, bottleneck-free architecture that was specifically designed to take maximum advantage of any modular improvements in capacity, processing and bandwidth. The net result is a storage solution that unifies SAN, NAS and WAN replication functions into a single device that delivers best-in-class performance. With the introduction of 10GbE functionality in the 9240 appliance, RELDATA has achieved an impressive speed advantage over competitive products that are constrained by speed limitations of 1GbE-oriented technology, while enabling IT managers to continue operating seamlessly within their existing Ethernet infrastructures. By virtualizing enterprise storage into a single unified shared storage pool, RELDATA customers realize significant cost savings, both in capital expenses by eliminating the need to add costly Fibre Channel infrastructure and storage, and ongoing operation cost savings by leveraging the existing IT staff knowledge base for Ethernet technology. The RELDATA unified storage model services one of the sweet spots of the current data storage market with SME users increasingly looking for alternatives to the scalability and utilization limitations of DAS, but without the cost and complexity of an aging technology such as Fibre Channel, which is nearing the end of its lifecycle and is flatlining in terms of new installations. The RELDATA 9000 Series of Unified Storage Gateways, with the RELvos Virtualization Operating System, is the foundation for open enterprise-class IP SAN, NAS and WAN data replication solutions – all in a single appliance. By leveraging industry-standard Fibre Channel, SCSI or iSCSI storage arrays, 9240-enabled IP storage systems provide the performance and throughput of more expensive Fibre Channel or enterprise NAS solutions at a much lower price without the high costs associated with scaling those systems. The modular architecture lets organizations easily expand block and file-based storage capacity to meet demand, seamlessly consolidate underused storage assets, and ensure availability of data. RELDATA's RELvos virtualization platform offers concurrent, high-speed IP SAN and NAS storage access with built-in comprehensive incremental WAN replication based on highly reliable, space-efficient, SAN-level snapshots. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Networking News :: home page |