Aberdeen to Showcase 50TB Storage Solution for SMBs

October 24, 2008: Storage vendor Aberdeen will be releasing the next generation of its Stirling storage server solutions at this year’s HD World Conference & Exposition in New York, a 50 terabyte expandable storage server aimed directly at small to medium-sized business.

The company says the new 8U, 50TB Stirling X881 is ideal for media sharing storage, content backup, streaming media, near-line storage, and post-production needs, as it can deliver up to 64 concurrent HD video streams and store over 400 hours of 1080p 10-bit HD video.

Small and medium businesses (SMB), whose storage requirements often mirror those of a larger enterprise, have neither centralized storage nor big budgets to implement complex IT solutions. These companies are on the lookout for easy, expandable and cost-efficient solutions for data storage, as well as simplified storage management.

“The Aberdeen Stirling expandable server platform will grow as an organisation's storage needs multiply,” said Jack Tateel, Executive VP for Aberdeen. “Rather than having to obsolete an appliance every time you reach existing capacity, with the Stirling you can easily increase the storage availability up to nearly 1/2 Petabyte one step at a time.

“For example, an organisation can purchase a 50TB NAS appliance today and expand to well over 400TB in 16TB increments as future needs dictate.”

Aberdeen says that SMBs storage requirements often mirror that of larger enterprises, and most are starving for storage capacity. The company claims that the Stirling’s growth potential and simplified network integration provides the best TB/$ ration in the industry.

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