New NAS Family From Infortrend for SMB and SOHO Markets

Infortrend Technology, Inc. announced the North American availability of two new product lines in its EonNAS family of unified storage solutions, the EonNAS Pro and EonNAS 1000 series.

Although NAS is becoming the storage solution of choice for the SOHO and SMB markets, when it comes to data protection, current offerings from other brands come up short. EonNAS Pro and 1000 sseries, running on ZFS file system fill this void by offering a collection of data protection features – including data deduplication, corrupt data self-healing, snapshot and pool mirror – bringing enterprise data protection and storage features to the SOHO and SMB markets.

New solutions feature protocol support to enable users to serve file-based and block-based applications with a single device and achieve file sharing among Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix workstations in the office.

Data deduplication can benefit a number of applications, in particular backup and virtualization applications. With storage space savings of up to 90%, the technology enables users to achieve cost reductions. Resource utilization is enhanced by thin provisioning technology and data compression.

Corrupt data self-healing is initiated when the EonNAS Pro and 1000 series identifies the wrong data in RAID configuration, identifies the correct data, repairs then returns the correct data. In addition to corrupt data self-healing, data is protected by many other features. Snapshots offer space-efficient differential data copies to rollback data or restore files in the event of data errors. With remote replication, users can replicate data in asynchronous mode to another EonNAS Pro or 1000 system or third-party device, while the pool mirror function allows users to keep data in two different systems synced at all times.

Various data backup options are also available. PC data can be backed up to the EonNAS Pro and 1000 through third-party backup software support, while data can be backed up to external disk drives via USB or eSATA connections.

The performance levels offered ensure that users can deal with demanding applications. For each network protocol, the solutions deliver performance of more than 100MB/s, and in FTP environments, users can achieve up to 180MB/s.

William Chen, director of the EonNAS product line for Infortrend, noted: "The unprecedented collection of advanced data protection features available on the new systems is what truly sets them apart. The EonNAS Pro and EonNAS 1000 Series are designed to bridge the gap that exists between high end enterprise NAS offerings and what had been available up until now for SOHO and SMB users. Infortrend is bringing something different to these users – data protection features that previously were only seen in enterprise solutions – at a price point designed for smaller budgets."

The EonNAS Pro Series offers 2-, 4-, 5-, and 8-bay tower systems that can be set up in minutes. The EonNAS 1000 Series features 4-, 8- and 12-bay systems with an 1U and 2U rack mount form factors.