Unknown Global Electronics Manufacturer Purchases IceWEB 7000
Via partner DataSpan
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on May 2, 2012 at 2:51 pmIceWEB, Inc. announced that one
of the world’s largest electronics manufacturers has purchased a high
performance IceWEB 7000 redundant and scalable unified data storage system.
In a competitive procurement process involving traditional storage
vendors, the IceWEB 7000 system satisfied the customer’s
unified data storage and performance requirements, including:
- Redundant dual controller units
- Hybrid disk pooling, combining SSD and performance SAS drives
- Eight 10GbE connectivity
- Four 8Gb FC ports
- NFSv4 provisioning
- Hot-pluggable drives, controllers, fans and power supplies
- Single, double and triple parity RAID protection: 0, 1, 10, 5, 50,
6, 60 and 6+1 - Automatic file system error correction ensures data integrity
- Unlimited, zero impact, zero capacity snapshots simplifies
development and optimizes backup - Thin provisioning, deduplication and compression to optimize
utilization efficiency - Flexible, no-impact replication (local or remote, real-time or
scheduled) services - VMWare ESXi 5.0 Compatibility
- IceSTORM 128-Bit Multi Node HA Cluster Operating System Enterprise
License
"For more than 35 years,
our Fortune 1000 customers have come to expect Dataspan to recommend only the
absolute best technology solutions," said Michael White, senior account manager with Dallas TX-based DataSpan, an IceWEB channel partner.
"The IceWEB 7000 Unified Storage
System with IceSTORM stands head and shoulders above traditional storage
vendors due to the combination of hybrid disk pooling across SSD and SAS
arrays, high performance computing, and redundancy – all at a price point that
sealed the deal for our customer. We’re certain that this IceWEB order will
trend forward with additional implementations for this and many more of
Dataspan’s Fortune 1000 customers."
"IceWEB’s unified data
storage products are designed to satisfy the unmet need for unified data
storage with enterprise performance, capabilities, and scalability at a
competitive price," said Steven Toole, IceWEB’s CMO. "We brought the IceWEB 7000 to the enterprise
data center market for companies like the Global 50 one announced today, and
the market has clearly responded favorably to IceWEB’s highly redundant,
scalable and affordable enterprise unified storage system."