Infortrend: Availability of EonStor GSa 2000 Series AFA
2U 24-bay 2.5-inch for GSa 2024, dual redundant controllers, 8x1Gb/s iSCSI ports, 12Gb SAS connectivity, and including enhanced firmware with Intelligent Drive Recovery and SSD lifespan monitoring features to ensure data availability
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on July 31, 2018 at 3:25 pmInfortrend Technology, Inc. announced the availability of EonStor GSa 2000 series.
EonStor GSa 2000 series front and rear
This AFA delivers edge performance and reliability at a new price point.
GSa 2000 extends GSa line of AFAs and continues to deliver no single point of failure technology (redundant controller hardware) and includes our enhanced firmware with Intelligent Drive Recovery (IDR) and SSD lifespan monitoring features to ensure data availability. It supports SAS to SATA bridge board for compatibility with cost-effective SATA SSDs.
Also, via a license upgrade, the GSa 2000 provides a cloud gateway that connects to cloud services such as Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Openstack Swift, and Alibaba Cloud for future-proof support of capacity expansion or remote-backup application to the cloud.
GSa AFA storage family offers three product series. GSa 2000 and 3000 series are the cost-performance solutions that provide high acceleration of enterprise applications such as database, virtualization, VDI, Exchange, and media/entertainment-related applications. GSa 5000 series, on the other hand, offers the highest performance all-flash technology designed for extreme I/O workloads. The complete product family offers a range of product selections in terms of performance, connectivity, and scalability.
“We are excited to announce the availability of EonStor GSa 2000 to extend our all-flash product range and enable us to offer 3 product series to address all parts of the AFA markets,” said Thomas Kao, senior director, product planning, Infortrend.