Netgear With New NAS for Home and SMB in Desktop and 1U Rack

NETGEAR, Inc. announced a portfolio of NAS products which run on the new ReadyNAS OS 6.

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ReadyNAS 312, 314, 316, 516

These devices are built on a custom platform designed as ‘storage made easy’ for both the home and SMBs.

NETGEAR also unveiled a suite of new downloadable applications for these products on the genie+ marketplace.

With a new interface and a set of embedded or downloadable applications, this NAS storage portfolio pairs performance and scalability with technologies such as unlimited snapshots and cloud-managed replication, which reduces any possibility of data loss.

NETGEAR is taking features and capabilities previously available only from expensive, large-enterprise vendors and lowering the cost while simplifying deployment and manageability to provide users with affordable, powerful, and reliable NAS storage.

Photographs, video clips, songs, websites, email, client files, and application data on physical or virtual servers can seem endless. With ReadyNAS, customers have an easy-to-use solution for centralizing, securing, and controlling access to digital assets. Cloud-based discovery and file management through NETGEAR’s ReadyCLOUD simplifies the set-up experience and enables full ongoing management of data from any web-connected device.

"As a photographer, my images are the foundation of my various photography businesses," explains Colby Brown, professional photographer and photo educator. "ReadyNAS is a full-featured file server providing access to all my data while on the road, an easy ability to backup data while outside of the office, and the ability to collaborate with other colleagues when I am in the field. With the new ReadyNAS OS, I don’t need an entire IT department to get up and running, and the clean new interface takes all the challenges out of running effective backups of my valuable data."

The latest additions to the ReadyNAS product family are available in three new series of desktop models and a 1U rackmount, each designed for home users and SMBs.

The entry level 100 Series (RN102xx, RN104xx) is designed for home use, and comes in two-bay and four-bay models that are offered as either diskless or populated with drives.
The 300 Series (RN312xx, RN314xx, RN316xx) is optimized for small business networks and remote or branch office needs, and offers two-bay, four-bay, and six-bay versions that are either diskless or populated with drives.
The four-bay 2120 is a 1U form factor for easy rack deployment in small data center environments and comes either diskless or populated with drives.
The six-bay 500 Series (RN516xx) offers the highest performance and is designed for small to medium sized business networks supporting up to 250 concurrent users, and also comes diskless or populated with drives.

"We designed the new ReadyNAS OS from the ground up with ease-of-use in mind, so users can confidently centralize and backup all their data," said Matt Pahnke, senior product marketing manager for NETGEAR storage. "Customers could not be more excited about our revolutionary ReadyCLOUD technology for cloud-based set-up, provisioning, and management. The cloud-based set-up and comprehensive, but simple-to-use interface is unlike anything else in the NAS market."

Each ReadyNAS features on-box data protection in the form of unlimited snapshot capability, cloud-managed replication, and XRAID automatic volume expansion. In addition, each unit showcases native encryption, enabling prosumer and business users to securely share, store, and protect sensitive data across their network. Every NAS device in the new ReadyNAS Series supports SATA (up to 4TB) and SSD drives. 300 and 500 models include an eSATA expansion port for scaling capacity as the storage needs of a business grows (up to 84TB).

Pahnke added: "We want to give our customers productivity-enhancing, innovative, and entertaining ways to do more with their NAS than they ever thought possible. With this in mind, ReadyNAS devices feature a rich set of embedded apps in addition to the growing library of add-ons found in the genie+ marketplace."

Launched last year, genie+ marketplace is a platform for third party developers to deliver new applications which can be installed on ReadyNAS boxes with a click. The suite of new applications includes productivity tools, media sharing applications, and a variety of other useful apps. Along with the currently available apps, NETGEAR has over 600 developers registered to create additional apps supporting the products announced. Among the 40+ applications available are the Polkast media sharing application that allows owners to enjoy all of the content stored on their device from their mobile devices, the QNext FB social cloud application that enables users to share any of their content with any Facebook friend without having to upload the content, and the Symform Cloud Backup application that enables free online cloud backup.

ReadyNAS continues to be compatible with all leading backup software providers, and is one of the first SMB NAS devices to feature real-time anti-virus protection.

The new product line also features cloud-like file synchronization with ReadyDROP and Dropbox integration. In addition, ReadyNAS Remote enables to access files from anywhere in the world on any web-connected device. NETGEAR offers prosumers and small businesses the ability to backup Mac data from any location in the world, without paying a monthly fee for cloud storage.

Pricing and Availability
Select models of the NETGEAR ReadyNAS 100 and 300 series are available worldwide through reseller channels and a variety of e-commerce sites. The new ReadyNAS models will be available in the second quarter of 2013 through authorized PowerSHIFT channel partners and other reseller channels and e-commerce sites.

Suggested US retail pricing for the ReadyNAS series: