14 DAY TRIAL // Storage solutions provider Hitachi Data Systems has announced the availability of two new network attached storage (NAS) solutions focused towards go mid-market: NAS Platform 2000 and the NAS Platform 2000 Nearline to integrate with the existing NAS 2100 and 2200 models.
The new storage framework integrates advanced storage services such as data protection, replication, clustering, and virtual server capabilities. The Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 2000 Nearline is a scalable platform up to 2 petabytes per node (can be scaled up to eight nodes) and comes as an alternative to the expensive fiber channel storage systems. The Nearline model supports the high capacity SATA -based Hitachi Workgroup Modular Storage system that makes it ideal for data replication from a primary site to a nearline location. The line is designed to cover a lower-cost disk-to-disk data protection angle, and is meant to replace the slower tape storage devices.
The Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 2000 is a high performance, cost-effective solution that can provide up to 128 Terabytes of storage space, which makes it the ideal storage solution for the mid-range business sector. Unlike the Nearline model, the NAS Platform 2000 supports two-node clustering only and uses a mix of Fibre Channel, SATA and write-once-read-many (WORM) disks.
The systems come with Hitachi's HiCommand storage software bundled. The software allows the users combine combine file-based virtualization with the block-based virtualization Hitachi uses in their Universal Storage Platform V series. The Hitachi TrueCopy utility gives the possibility of synchronously replicating data, while the Hitachi ShadowImage Heterogeneous Replication software makes it possible for the user to locally clone data.
The Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 2000 Nearline and the Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 2000 can both be purchased for prices starting at $180,000.