High storage NAS Filer for smaller business
High storage NAS Filer for smaller business
Dec 23, 2004: NetForce 900 is Procom Technology's latest NAS Filer, which is being offered at the low-end with 4.8 terabytes of storage capacity in a 3U enclosure to deal with primary and secondary storage.
Procom believes that the NF900 is ideal for small and medium-sized businesses, workgroups and departments of large organisations which need large amounts of economical storage to be deployed and managed with ease.
Farid Neema, the president and senior analyst of Peripheral Concepts, said: "ATA drives and SATA technology have greatly enhanced the concept of tiered storage, and SATA-based NAS filers bring an additional level of functionality associated with the cost effectiveness of the drives.
"The new NetForce 900 offers the full forces of Procom's intellectual property assets and NAS know-how in a very affordable package. It sets a new level of value in network storage."
William A.Long, Procom's vice president of product development, added: "I have not seen so much customer demand for a Procom NAS product in the last two years, and we are receiving increased pressure from our customers to fill backorders for the NetForce 900. This is a true milestone product for us an, we believe, for the NAS marketplace."
The new SATA disk-based NF900 journals file systems to ensure data integrity and checkpoints for rapid recovery of damaged or deleted files.
Other functionalities include cross-platform heterogeneous file sharing, full SNMP monitoring, local SCSI backup options, and support for NDMP.
Procom said that it is especially suited for the telecommunications industry, because it is only 21-inches in depth and available with a 48 volt DC power supply, which allows it to be easily integrated into many telco environments.
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