D-Link Improves Small and Medium Business IT Environments

D-Link has long been a supplier of networking solutions, especially for the business/enterprise sector, and it is this very field that its latest series of products aims to serve.

When it comes to networking infrastructures for small and medium businesses, there is a need for a balance between costs, performance, reliability and security.

D-Link strove to meet all the requirements when it created the DSN-4000 xStack Storage iSCSI SAN Array.

This product series is aimed at secondary server applications and claims to bring benefits in terms of disaster recovery, backup, archiving and surveillance.

The series includes the DSN-4100 and DSN-4200 xStack Storage iSCSI SAN arrays, both of them in the 3U form factor and supporting up to 32 GB raw capacity.

16 SATA/SAS drive bays exist, as does the possibility to extend the number to 48 bays (96TB) by means of an expansion array, or more, by staking.

The DSN-4200 has eight 1 GbE data port, for up to 850 MB/s throughput, while the 4100 has four, for 425 MB/s.

As for the IOPS performance, both newcomers have a single system-on-chip iSCSI controller, which can churn out 80,000 IOPS.

"D-Link underscores its commitment to the storage market with the superior economic value offered through D-Link's affordable solutions, professional support and flexible architecture," said Chris Gruber, director of product marketing, Storage Solutions, D-Link.

"The DSN-4000 series is just the latest example of D-Link's line of feature-rich, easy-to-manage, expandable solutions for IT managers looking to future-proof their storage networks and eliminate pre-planning short falls."

November is when the new series starts shipping, for prices of $4,999.00 (3,660 Euro) and $6,199.99 (4539 Euro), respectively. The 16-bay Expansion array costs an extra $3,199.99 (2340 Euro).

“Storage vendors often offer solutions based on proprietary architectures, which can be restricting for small-to-medium sized businesses," said Liz Conner, senior research analyst, Storage Systems and Personal Storage, IDC.

"D-Link's open architecture provides businesses with the opportunity to choose from a variety of drive manufacturers in order to scale storage networks in a manner that best fits their performance, capacity, and budgetary needs."