Bytes Technology Storage (BTS), a division of the JSE-listed Bytes Technology Group (a member of the Altron group), has announced that SANRAD Incorporated, a leader in developing and delivering intelligent iSCSI IP SAN solutions, today released Version 2.0 of StoragePro Services for its award-winning V-Switch family of IP SAN solutions.
New features include SNAPshot, DataCloning, FastCopy and support for RADIUS authentication.
The latest StoragePro enhancements for the V-Switch family focus on three IP-SAN areas: data duplication and protection, security and discovery, and improving the industry standard for ease of use.
Data duplication and protection features now enable SANRAD customers to eliminate the backup window for production volumes with the new SNAPshot feature, accommodate for data growth with on-the-fly volume expansion and maintain up to four mirrored copies of any volume for data protection or data cloning. With 2.0 users can also copy data between volumes, devices or storage systems at up to a TB per hour and use FC UltraPathing to load balance or reroute IP traffic over multi-pathed FC storage architectures.
New security and discovery enhancements in version 2.0 include RADIUS support to authenticate a secure iSCSI connection, iSNS and SLP iSCSI client support to ensure iSCSI target discovery for continuous data access, and an enhanced Access Control List (ACL) to securely bind and set read/write policies for individual storage volumes to a single or group of hosts.
To continue industry leadership in ease of use, the V-Switch family will now support e-mail notification to the system administrator if the IP SAN should require attention. The V-Switch 3000 is now shipping with onboard removable PCMCIA compact flash memory so configuration information can be stored and removed for safekeeping or used to configure new V-Switch systems. And the latest StoragePro GUI can be used to manage a single V-Switch, a V-Switch cluster, multiple V-Switch clusters or any combination and number of V-Switch products from a single screen, providing a single management interface for small to large environments.
"We`re very pleased to be releasing this new version of StoragePro for our V-Switch product line," said SANRAD CEO, Shaul Gal-Oz. "We are once again delivering on our promise to provide enterprise SAN capabilities to the IP SAN market. These features are just a hint of what`s coming down the road for our customers.
"We are extremely excited by the new enhancements, especially as there`s no additional cost to our existing or new customers," states Mike Broderick, Director, BTS. "The level of functionality now delivered in this product matches and in many cases exceeds that found in much more expensive SAN offerings at a fraction of the price. The ability to migrate data from existing sub-systems to new storage systems without host intervention is a particularly useful tool for most storage administrators. We have been thrilled by the functionality and performance of this outstanding product to date and look forward to some of the planned further enhancements over the next 12 months."
SANRAD StoragePro IP SAN management software is bundled with and runs inside every SANRAD V-Switch and requires no host agents or special licences.
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Bytes Technology Storage (BTS), a division of JSE-listed Bytes Technology Group, a member of the Altron group, provides clients with world-class managed services networks, continuously developing towards Trusted Advisor, based on platforms, processes and methodologies from acknowledged industry leaders.
BTS is a leader in providing scalable strategic risk-eliminating solutions to the market. BTS was founded by a team of IT professionals with extensive experience in the enterprise storage market.
BTS have offerings from some of the industry-leading companies such as IBM, HP, Nexsan and SANRAD iSCSI.
BTS focuses on providing cost-effective and high performance storage solutions to SA`s top corporate companies and government institutions.
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SANRAD is the leader in IP storage networking, enabling hundreds of organisations worldwide to effectively access, share and manage storage across standard Ethernet environments. SANRAD delivers a new dimension in the continuity and simple management of vital business information by coupling standard IP connectivity with network-based storage services to create IP-based storage area networks (IP SANs). SANRAD IP SANs enable full data availability, effective resource provisioning and complete data protection with excellent price/performance. SANRAD`s US sales, marketing and support offices are located in Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area, California, with research and development and international sales offices in Tel Aviv, Israel. SANRAD is a member of the RAD Group, a holding company that has founded 22 networking companies and is one of the largest multinational revenue producers in networking.
More about SANRAD: www.sanrad.com
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