Dell South Africa has unveiled a new family of network-attached storage (NAS) products aimed at simplifying data storage expansion for small and medium businesses, as well as in workgroup, departmental and distributed computing environments within the enterprise.
This announcement comes in the wake of Dataquest`s estimates that customers will choose NAS products for an increasing portion of their data storage requirements, causing this market to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 65 percent in revenue through 2004. "By leveraging the direct model, Dell simplifies the process of buying and installing NAS devices to fulfil immediate storage requirements," notes Sean Wainer, enterprise product manager at Dell SA.
Included in this suite of NAS products, is the new PowerVault 735N - a midrange NAS system. This unit can be installed in approximately 15 minutes and managed from any location through a standard browser. The product is also scalable, allowing customers to expand storage capacity online while still having access to data. Wainer adds that this is made possible without compromising productivity through downtime.
Working with Microsoft, Dell engineered the PowerVault 735N around the Windows operating system, and included support for Windows, Netware, Unix, Linux and Macintosh clients. The unit provides four 36GB data disk drives with an initial capacity of 144GB of storage, that is scalable up to 1.44TB with additional storage enclosures and is available in a dual processor XP model.
Other products in the range include the PowerVault 701N and a capacity upgrade to the PowerVault 705N. The former is Dell`s desk-side NAS system for small businesses in need of up to 60GB storage capacity. The latter product was originally announced with a 120GB storage capacity last September, but is now capable of up to 240GB "The simplicity of installation and management of these products eliminates the need for experienced IT staff for installation or administration," says Wainer.
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