Promise Expands VTrak Family With Model 3000 ($36,000 for 32TB)

PROMISE Technology Inc. announced the extension of their industry-leading VTrak storage subsystem line to include a set of data service appliances at a greatly reduced cost to the end-user. The addition of VTrak S3000 to the VTrak series provides IT administrators a wide range of storage services and leading-edge tools to manage their organization’s mission-critical data.

Storage management is at the center of an increasingly complex IT problem. Applications continually demand more from their storage systems – as performance, capacity, availability, backup and disaster recovery needs intensify, so do expectations of the servers and storage that support them. As a result, IT professionals need a storage solution that integrates a full complement of high-end management capabilities, includes seamless virtualization for data protection, and operates intelligently. They need a reliable storage system that expands transparently and provides consistent data availability regardless of server configuration, OS, or application.

The PROMISE VTrak S3000 solution tackles these challenges by providing organizations with enterprise-level storage services to protect their entire data set. It has been designed to provide performance and reliability for mission-critical environments and applications. Powerful, easy-to-deploy and manage, the VTrak S3000 allows IT administrators to solve data management growth and disaster recovery issues all at an affordable price. In a fully redundant configuration the design provides data protection and availability even if a component should fail.

The enterprise-level features include:

• Storage consolidation & virtualization for FC or iSCSI SANs;
• Disaster recovery through snapshots, mirroring & replication;
• Seamless fail-over and fail-back capabilities;
• Application-aware snapshot and recovery agents; and,
• Thin Provisioning.

"With the introduction of VTrak S3000, we are significantly expanding our strategic direction of offering leading-edge solutions to the market and providing our customers and partners the ability to expand their competitive advantage," said James Lee, CEO, PROMISE Technology. "Throughout our 21 plus year history, we have continued to focus on the customer – designing and delivering solutions that enable them to address their mission-critical storage challenges."

Lee continued: "Not every organization’s SAN infrastructure is the same. Whether their infrastructure is powered by Fibre Channel or iSCSI, the VTrak S3000 provides them with the latest in speed and technology to seamlessly fit into their existing SAN infrastructure. Our new solution, which is VMware certified, is the ideal next generation extension of our highly successful VTrak family and is another example of our ongoing commitment to providing customers with leading-edge technologies and value across all areas of their infrastructure."

This new offering features phone and e-mail support along with a 3-year advance replacement warranty thus providing VTrak S3000 users uninterrupted productivity.

"With the introduction of VTrak S3000 we are providing our customers with a much-needed solution to address today’s exponential data growth as well as the challenges of storing, managing and protecting data from disasters," said Ray Bahar, vice president, sales and marketing, PROMISE Technology. "The VTrak S3000 is offered at a highly-competitive price point and has been designed to provide all inclusive enterprise features and functions with no additional cost per TB."

Bahar continued: "In today’s IT environments it is imperative to be able to protect data stored locally and at remote sites. Our new enterprise solution feature set provides the ability to back-up virtualized storage environments and is ideal for business-continuity and mission-critical applications."

Availability and Pricing
PROMISE VTrak S3000 will be available in the Americas in Q3. MSRP for the PROMISE VTrak S3000 in a 32TB, single node configuration starts at $36,000. The VTrak S3000 is also available in a multi node configuration.