Starline: Bundle With NASdeluxe, ZFS File System and Archiware P5

Starline Computer GmbH has created a bundle: NASdeluxe family – with its ZFS – that receives additional reinforcement in the backup area: with Archiware P5, it interacts with external drives, tape libraries and cloud services.

Evolution with NASdeluxe: The FreeNAS product line of the company own brand also masters the functions of a backup server. RDX drives, tape libraries or a cloud connection can also be used to backup valuable company data.

This cooperation was made possible by a software variant from the firm’s partner Archiware GmbH: their software suite P5 is available in version 6 – and it is also available as a compatible version for FreeBSD. FreeNAS, however, is based on FreeBSD and already offers data security through the ZFS file system and snapshots functions. With additional plug-ins it can be extended modularly.

As hardware platform Supermicro (Super Micro Computer, Inc.) servers are used in the rackmount sector. They are assembled according to the individual needs of the customer and assembled on site in Kirchheim, Germany, unter Teck. The number of drives, equipment and interfaces are freely selectable. So the customer gets hardware in industrial quality combined with a flexible and modular open source OS.

By the way: Archiware doubles a storage license (media management+storage licenses, MMSL) for disk and cloud to 8TB in this version. In addition, the calculation of the required MMSL is based on the storage actually used instead of the maximum possible storage size as was previously the case. Archiware customers are therefore more flexible when configuring disk and cloud storage.

In addition to P5 Workgroup Edition, P5 Sync Edition, P5 Professional Edition, there will be another bundle called P5 Desktop LTO Edition. This package already existed last year as a promotion, but will be released as a regular product. It combines features of other packages and closes the gap for users who want to backup only to tape and not to the cloud or disk. However, the LTO edition cannot be combined with other packages. On the other hand, it is cheaper than comparable package bundles.

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