Nexsan Solution for Apple Xserve
Up to 42TB in 4U rack space with MAID
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on January 10, 2008 at 3:51 pmNexsan, a leading provider of energy efficient disk-based storage
systems designed for the long-term storage of information, today
announced the SATABeast Xi, the first high density, energy efficient
storage solution built and optimized for the Apple Xserve and Mac Pro
markets.
The
SATABeast Xi is the highest density storage solution available today,
providing up to 42TB of storage in only 4U of rack space, and the only
one of its caliber in the Xserve market featuring AutoMAID (Massive
Array of Idle Disks). AutoMAID allows SATABeast Xi to place its disk
drives in an idle state to conserve energy yet provide
near-instantaneous access to data.
Additionally,
SATABeast Xi is the only storage solution delivering dual function
Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity at wire-speed performance, making
it flexible, scalable and completely OS independent to easily support a
broad range of storage and computing infrastructures.
While
optimized and designed specifically for the Apple Xserve and Mac Pro,
complementing those environments both physically and with its
easy-to-use GUI that will be familiar to Leopard OS users, the Nexsan
SATABeast Xi also is an ideal storage solution for mixed environments.
The
SATABeast Xi is designed for primary storage of large data set
applications like uncompressed, real-time HDTV as well as multi-stream
and analog TV signals and high-quality video editing with no frame
drops. It also is ideal for secondary storage applications and
disk-to-disk backup in which online access to data delivers superior
business continuity and data protection as well as instant access to
large volumes of data.
"The SATABeast Xi is a
natural evolution of our highly flexible, scalable SATABeast product,”
said Bob Woolery, senior vice president of marketing, Nexsan. "Xserve
directly targets one of our sweet spots in the market – data intensive
multimedia applications that require the highest reliability and
instantaneous access.
"Our customers produce the
highest-quality, rich media content including HD television programming
and feature length movies, and have been challenging us to develop a
rock-solid storage solution for Xserve and other environments," said
Chris Donoyan, President and Founder of HomeRun Media, a leading
systems integrator in the media and entertainment market located in Los
Angeles. "We’ve never had an available solution like SATABeast Xi that
delivers high density storage and energy savings all in one package for
both fibre channel and iSCSI. When you put those features together with
Nexsan’s incredible price performance, this is has the potential to be
a major force for rich media storage in the Xserve market and beyond."
Based
on the proven technology of Nexsan’s award-winning SATABeast, the
SATABeast Xi provides Xserve users a high density, plug and play
solution that is complementary to Xserve’s existing storage options.
SATABeast Xi delivers high end performance at the same exceptional
price point as Nexsan’s current SATABeast solutions, with pricing
starting at $1,200/TB. This pricing includes all the energy efficiency
features and software licenses required to operate SATABeast Xi out of
the box.
Nexsan SATABeast Xi is available starting March 15 through Nexsan’s network of VARs.
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