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XRAID ES Offers Native Mac OS X Management

Ideal for business-critical, science, and education use in Apple-based infrastructures, the makers say

Apr 8, 2009 14:42 GMT  ·  By
Active XRAID ES design feature
   Active XRAID ES design feature

Active Storage has announced the new configurations of its Active Storage XRAID ES, now available in 4TB and 16TB form, with the 16TB configuration offering 67 cents per GB cost, according to the company. With the release of fresh XRAID ES, Active Storage believes it addresses the most important needs of Apple-based infrastructures, be they educational, science-based, or business-focused.

New models of Active Storage XRAID ES employ the same benefits offered by their predecessors, using the industry’s first native Mac OS X storage management suite found in the original Active Storage XRAID, and offers a lower-cost configuration taking advantage of a single high-throughput RAID controller and business-class hard drives with smaller read/write cache, says Active Storage.

"Active Storage continues to innovate in the storage space with these two new products," says Bob Wilson, President of Solutioneering LLC. "We see the Active Storage XRAID ES 4TB model combined with Solutioneering's Data:enRoute ILM software as a real breakthrough for smaller businesses wanting to step up to professional grade data management - and a way to finally stop juggling sneaker-net external drives and slow, consumer-grade NAS devices."

"For us, the Active Storage XRAID re-opens exciting possibilities with new potential customers as well as many prospects that liked the old Apple Xserve RAID but were waiting for a new and improved model,” said Richard Bauer, President and CEO of Cloverleaf Communications. “Together we will provide virtualization across heterogeneous SAN & NAS; Enterprise level Data-Protection & Disaster Recovery; Non-disruptive any-to-any Data Migration; Virtually unlimited scalability supporting up to 12PB capacity with up to 255TB per volume, 192,000 snapshots, unlimited number of storage tiers all for a fraction of price of other similar solutions."

The fresh systems offer an impressive throughput of up to 744MB/s in a 16 drive RAID 5 configuration. According to the company, the ES is ideal for non-Xsan-based Mac OS X Server Applications and is the perfect low-cost storage for business applications such as file serving, database services, web hosting, calendar, Wiki, Mail, iChat and more.

Visit Active Storage here for more information on Active’s XRAID ES.