The recent announcement that Compaq is to tackle the network attached storage (NAS) market has been welcomed by Tarsus Technologies, sole distributor of Compaq storage solutions in South Africa.
"With this declaration, Compaq has completed its e-business product line and entered one of the fastest growing markets in enterprise computing," notes Andre Wollheim, product manager for Compaq servers and storage at Tarsus.
According to him, the field-upgradeable Compaq TaskSmart N-Series of NAS systems complement the existing StorageWorks offering. "The N-series offers scalability from small branch office systems from 72 GB to corporate data centres up to 1 terabyte, in slim rack mounted units," he says.
In an industry first, the TaskSmart features an embedded version of Windows 2000, optimised for NAS applications, instead of the proprietary operating system that controls many other vendors` NAS boxes.
"The embedded Microsoft operating system results in improved performance on Windows-based networks and makes the transition from server-attached storage to NAS a simple operation for engineers familiar with Windows 2000," says Wollheim. For this reason, he says, Compaq is focusing the TaskSmart on the NT market, even though the TaskSmart is also at home in Unix environments.
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