S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliances bring simple affordable storage area networks for departmental workgroup applicationsLos Angeles 04 March 2002 DataDirect Networks has launched a Silicon Storage Appliance to serve the needs of departmental-level computing and workgroup applications, setting new standards in application acceleration and simplicity. DataDirect Networks has based their S2A 3000 line on the company's proven Silicon Storage Appliance technology, creating a solution that offers the leading features of their enterprise-class appliances in a more compact form factor with an exceptionally attractive price point.
The S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance is a simple to deploy, easy to manage and affordable storage network appliance that allows small to mid-size businesses to achieve application performance gains, cost-effective scalability, and simplified management. Silicon Storage Appliance users have seen productivity and work flow increases of 600 percent from the underlying appliance technology, which brings compelling return on investment benefits for business. Selecting the S2A 3000 solutions for departmental use also offers companies an easy and clean migration path to DataDirect??s enterprise-class Silicon Storage Appliance solutions as application and environment needs grow.
DataDirect Networks has created the flexible Silicon Storage Appliances to accelerate application performance, simplify information management, and lower total costs of ownership. Each S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance supplies an aggregate bandwidth from 100 to 400 megabytes per second (depending on requirements) to workgroups typically consisting of one to eight Linux, Unix, Windows NT/2000, Sun, AIX, HP-UX, and SGI compute nodes. The S2A 3000 can easily manage storage network environments ranging in capacity from 500GB to 7 Terabytes.
Deploying a departmental SAN using the S2A 3000 is virtually plug and play, with users easily connecting servers and workstations into one side of the 1U high appliance and commodity-priced JBOD disks into the other side. System configuration and network virtualisation is done in a quick, three-step process. Scaling of the storage network and activation of additional software modules, that are included in the S2A 3000, can be quickly and non-disruptively activated with a software key.
S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance solutions (appliance plus storage) start from $39,000 (with 500 GB storage) and $49,995 (with 1 TB storage). Customers using DataDirect??s Silicon Storage Appliances include National Century Financial Enterprises, Star TV, CineGroupe, Schumann Printers Inc., NASA, Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, U.S. Army Research Lab, White Sands Missile Range, Loudeye, Sonic Foundry, among others. DataDirect SAN partnerships include industrial companies VERITAS, Seagate, Emulex, and QLogic, among others.
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