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CSSI launches its CipherSAN SN24100 - fastest SAN appliance in its range with sustained transfer rates of just over 1 Gigabyte per second

The CipherSAN-24100 is the latest SAN storage array available with a sustained rate of transfer of over 1 Gigabyte per second and 48 Terabytes of storage scalable to 576 Terabytes.

Midrand, 21 Feb 2011

Today, Computer Storage Services (CSSI) has released its latest generation CipherSAN storage array, the 24-bay CipherSAN 24100 storage appliance that performs up to 32% faster in sustained transfer of data, with close to zero latency as compared to its predecessor, the SN24000.

The CipherSAN is already in production in numerous data centres and is the product of selection within the CipherVault, where numerous clients running virtual servers and dedicated machines are supplied their storage demands by the redundant high performance CipherSAN storage appliances.

Each storage device is fully scalable and can be deployed in the smallest configuration of 8TB, and fully scalable and expandable on the fly with zero downtime.

The CipherSAN is supplied standard with three redundant power supply units and an option for dual controller units operating on 8GBit fibre channel as standard to enable peak performance, reliability and Dual Channel Clustering.

The 4U, 24 Bay CipherSAN has an independent 64bit controller, and supports RAID 0,1, 0+1, 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60 and JBOD, has standard 2GB DDR ECC registered cache, hot swappable and load sharing redundant power supplies and a MiniSAS port for additional expansion arrays. The appliance is designed to take full benefit of green power standards and automatically control and throttle power demand as required to deliver cost savings and reduce heat.

The latest range allows for redundant hot swap Active-to-Active controllers, which are used for clustering or in high demand-high performance environment where the cloud or virtual servers are usually connected with emphasis on near zero latency. The latest CipherSAN range is certified and benchmarked with SSD drives to deliver unrivalled speed and performance with the STEC range of top of line SSDs delivering up to 80 000 IOPS per drive.

To support customer options between the available SATA and SAS or SSDs as the drive of choice, the storage controllers support and auto-sense the device and will automatically optimise performance settings to achieve peak performance.

For a limited period, CSSI has available test/demo units for trial periods to VARs and support partner clientele, who will also be pleasantly surprised with the latest pricing.

The latest addition supplements the currently available 8-bay, 12-bay and 16-bay units CipherSAN storage appliances, and are available in 4Gbit fibre option if required in single channel or dual channel configuration.

For more information, contact CSSI, http://www.cssi.co.za, or email on ciphersan@cssi.co.za.

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Computer Storage Services/CipherWave

Computer Storage Services (CSSI) and subsidiary CipherWave is listed as SA's top performing company, which is a leading data storage specialist providing a host of quality products and data storage services from data storage supply; hard drives, backup systems, data migration to data recovery, forensics and data archival services. The head office is located in Midrand, with office locations in Cape Town, Durban and a Serbia location catering for European markets. CSSI has advanced data recovery labs and a research and development team focused on DR, software and storage development with technology research centres. CSSI is home to the Ministers Award for Technological Excellence and a host of accolades throughout its 11 year history from start-up. CSSI has a distribution division for disk-based storage arrays, data archival and storage components and accessories. CipherVault is the electronic and physical data centre facility housing the first category five rated biometric data vault in Africa, with virtual hosting, server collocation and ISP hosting facilities.

Editorial contacts

Sandra De Oliveira
Computer Storage Services (CSSI)
(+27) 11 541 9900
sandra.deoliveira@cssi.co.za