SNIA to open up Australian chapter

By Paul Montgomery

Australasian distributor Digistor has signed a deal with IBM to onsell its TotalStorage NAS 100 hardware, using the marketing gimmick of likening the device to a pizza box.

The NAS 100 is designed for the standard 19 inch rack at a height of one rack unit, making the comparison with a pizza box inevitable. The box has a storage capacity of 480GB with four disk drives running at 7200rpm, based on a 1.26GHz Pentium III chip, with RAID 0, 1 and 5 available to help guard against data loss.

File sharing can be performed over networks running CIFS, NFS, HTTP, AppleTalk and NetWare protocols. Storage administrators with tape backup needs can also incorporate the NAS 100 into the system using an Ultra2 SCSI PCI adapter.

The NAS 100 also ships with management software developed by IBM under its Project eLiza initiative, including its Director 3.1 agent, Tivoli Storage Manager 4.2 and Storage Central 1.01 applications.

The product would retail for around A$10,000, according to the companies.

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