Iomega and VMware Bring Enterprise Class Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Iomega Corp., an EMC company, announced a first in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for small and medium sized businesses and distributed offices when 100 thin clients with VMware View 4.6 were simultaneously booted in a matter of minutes – an unheard VDI implementation utilizing a sub-$3,000 network storage device.

Before thousands of IT professionals at the recent EMC World in Las Vegas, the six-bay desktop high performance and scalable Iomega StorCenter px6-300d – utilizing two 128GB solid state drives and four 2TB hard disk drives – booted 100 Wyse clients to VMware View on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) server platform in less than five minutes, establishing a new low cost, high performance bar for VDI deployments for today’s small installations, such as a Fortune 500 call center or a professional services firm.  

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"VDI’s are taking enterprise IT installations by storm today, but until now small and medium sized businesses and distributed offices didn’t have the capabilities to take advantage of the cost savings and management simplicity," said Jonathan Huberman, president of Iomega. "With the power of EMC companies VMware and Iomega, the advantages of VDI are now accessible to whole new segments of businesses and others for less cost than ever. The new Iomega StorCenter PX series products are powerful business class network storage devices that were created using the same practices that produce EMC’s enterprise network storage products. This demonstration continues Iomega’s multi-year history of collaboration with VMware and why we were the first in our class to have the full VMware certification. This demo is one more example of Iomega’s thought leadership in this space and our close relationship with VMware – all because Iomega is part of the EMC family."

About the New Iomega PX Network Storage Series
The new Iomega StorCenter PX Series of network storage products, launched earlier this month, is Iomega’s most advanced series of desktop and rackmount NAS devices created for high performance use at small- to medium-sized businesses and distributed enterprises.

Powered by EMC storage technology, the StorCenter PX Series features four-bay and six-bay desktop models and a four-bay rackmount model, each available in scalable configurations at competitive prices. SMBs, remote offices and distributed enterprise users will benefit from the optional use of SSD drives for higher performance, as well as such data protection features as multiple RAID levels with hot swap drives, UPS support, user quotas, device-to-device replication and certification for most virtualization environments.  

Iomega’s StorCenter PX Series of network storage devices range from diskless with no included storage up to 18TB of storage capacity. The PX Series also includes Iomega Personal Cloud technology, empowering users to protect and share data from virtually anywhere without any incremental costs.

The new StorCenter PX series features
two desktop models:

• The Iomega StorCenter px4-300d consists of four HDD bays and up to 12TB of storage, and the Iomega StorCenter px6-300d is outfitted with six HDD bays and up to 18TB of storage capacity. Empty bays in both models are fitted with a drive carrier that can accommodate 2.5-inch and 3.5 inch HDD drives, as well as SSD drives for performance-intensive applications.  
• With up to 12TB of storage capacity, the Iomega StorCenter px4-300r Network Storage Array features four bays for use with HDDs or SSDs. The px4-300r comes in a 1U form factor ranging from diskless to populated with HDD and/or SSD drives. Moreover, the px4-300r has all of the high availability features of Iomega’s rackmount unit, the Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r Network Storage array, including redundant power supplies.   

CDW is One-Stop Shop for New StorCenter PX Series  
In the U.S., CDW has a 30-day exclusive at launch for disk-populated models of the new Iomega StorCenter PX Series network storage devices, beginning immediately. The diskless versions of the desktop StorCenter px4-300d, the desktop StorCenter px6-300d, and the rackmount StorCenter px4-300r, will be available in the U.S. at launch from all distribution, resellers and DMR channel partners.

Availability and Warranty
The new Iomega PX Series of network storage devices is available worldwide.  

The desktop Iomega StorCenter px4-300d Network Storage devices start at $799.99 for the diskless model, the partially-populated 4TB model is $1,199.99, the 8TB model populated with 4x2TB HDDs is $2,299.99, and the populated 12TB (4x3TB HDDs) model is $2,999.99.

The desktop Iomega StorCenter px6-300d Network Storage devices start at $1,199.99 for the diskless model, the populated 6TB model is $1,699.99, the populated 12TB model (6x2TB HDDs) is $3,299.99, and the populated 18TB model (6x3TB HDDs) is $3,999.99.

The rackmount Iomega StorCenter px4-300r Network Storage Array units start at $2,299.99 for the diskless model, the populated 8TB model (4x2TB HDDs) is $2,999.99, and the populated 12TB model (4x3HDDs) is $3,799.99. There is no partially populated px4-300r rackmount model.

All pricing is U.S. suggested retail.

The Iomega StorCenter PX Series includes a standard three-year limited warranty with U.S.-based phone support 13 hours a day, five days a week. Optional service plans include Iomega’s Enhanced Service Plan which includes 24×7 phone support with advance replacement.