Nexsan Introduces Industry's First Green SAS Storage Solution with MAID 2.0
SASBoy
Delivers High Performance and Energy Savings for Fixed Content
Nexsan, a leading
provider of energy efficient, long-term disk storage, today announced the
availability of SASBoy™, a high-density, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage
solution. This is the only SAS storage solution on the market to provide MAID
2.0 functionality via Nexsan's AutoMAID™ (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks)
technology, which reduces energy use without compromising application
performance.
SASBoy uses high-performance RAID controllers
and offers fast I/O response for searching and retrieving small fixed-content
files. It is well suited for applications like web and Intranet fixed-content
delivery, databases for storing and retrieving PACS (Picture Archiving and
Communication Systems) content, document management, and business reports.
SASBoy is completely OS-independent and provides both iSCSI and Fibre Channel
connectivity. The new cost-effective solution houses fourteen 300GB SAS drives
in 3U for 4.2 TB of storage.
Product Details
- Speeds: High-performance random access for
fixed-content. Up to 50,000 random IOPS from cache;
- Green storage: Multiple levels of energy
efficiency, user configurable to control energy use. No compromise on
application performance. Comes standard with the SASBoy;
- Features both Fibre Channel and iSCSI
connectivity to enable cost-effective, high performance access to large
amounts of information;
- High availability architecture features
full redundancy across all active components;
- Centralized management and monitoring
platform that enables remote management and configuration of multiple arrays
from a single GUI through NexScan™ software;
- Priced for the SME market (small to
mid-size enterprises);
- Available immediately through Nexsan's
global VAR channel;
- Easily integrates with SATA products for
tiered storage;
- Three-year warranty includes advance
exchange, 24-7 technical support.
Quotes
"Whereas most SAS solutions support primary
storage applications, the SASBoy is designed to enable high-performance
fixed-content applications with energy efficiency,” said Bob Woolery, senior
vice president of marketing, Nexsan. “From the perspective of the host O/S, the
SASBoy array acts like any SAS RAID while opportunistically looking for ways to
save power."
"Just because a business is categorized
specifically as being in the SME space does not necessarily mean that it's IT
challenges and needs are specific too - Nexsan has realized this and has put
together an intriguing combination in its SASBoy product, said Mark Peters,
analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "Aimed predominantly to serve
fixed-content, it combines what should be a good price/performance SAS package
with Nexsan's multi-level, energy-saving technology; this latter aspect is
crucial - after all, SME's have utility bills too, and the need to contain
power-usage (whether motivated by environmental or economic concerns) is endemic
and only going to grow"
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