Fortuna NAS With Active Circle Software
To provide distributed and tiered system
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on November 11, 2008 at 3:30 pmFortuna Power Systems Ltd and Active Circle jointly announce availability of a new storage solution to manage data growth at reasonable costs. The solution is based on the FortuNAS hardware, a range of Network-Attached Storage products from Fortuna, and the Active Circle
software platform.
“Active Circle’s clustered file storage platform combined with our FortuNAS range of NAS products provides a highly secured, tiered and distributed storage system for organizations wishing to manage data growth at reasonable costs”, says Ray Quattromini, CEO at Fortuna.
“The main challenge in many organizations is to manage data growth. The combination of Fortuna’s products and Active Circle software platform delivers a very powerful and competitive storage solution for managing data growth while avoiding being locked into proprietary solutions”, says Philippe Boyon, marketing director at Active Circle.
FortuNAS is a range of Network Attached Storage products based on either SATA or SAS disk technology. The FortuNAS product line starts at 5 Terabytes and scales up to 100 Terabytes, and can be aggregated thanks to Active Circle. The FortuNAS products feature redundant power supplies, dedicated RAID controller(s), and hot swap disk drives.
The Active Circle software platform is a distributed, tiered and secured file system. It’s standards-based integrated set of services drives physical storage nodes behind a global storage space that provides file lifecycle management, high availability and data protection, and can grow with needs by adding nodes or capacity on-demand.











