Iomega, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC) and the world's fastest growing provider of network storage to small and medium businesses, has announced the most advanced entry in its line-up of easy-to-use network storage products, with the worldwide launch of the new Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r Network Storage array.
Incorporating industry-leading enterprise-class EMC storage technologies, the StorCenter ix12-300r is the ideal rackmount storage device for small and medium businesses, as well as small enterprise locations such as workgroups, departments and distributed/branch offices that require expandability, reliability and advanced capability features without the need for a dedicated IT staff.
“The new StorCenter ix12-300r is an exciting network storage array that delivers EMC's world-class enterprise storage technologies to small businesses and distributed enterprises in the market segment between the current Iomega and EMC network storage offerings,” said Michelle Kasselman, Key Account Manager for Iomega in South Africa.
“From capacity, expandability and reliability to network flexibility and support for applications like Microsoft Exchange 2010, the ix12-300r retains Iomega's signature ease-of-use with key features business users expect and need, including testing and listing on EMC's own EMC Storage Matrix (ESM). The software capabilities, testing and certification set the ix12-300r apart from anything else in its category.”
Easily supporting groups of up to 250 users, the StorCenter ix12-300r Network Storage array provides up to 24TB (1) of networked storage in a 2-rack unit (2U) form factor. The StorCenter ix 12-300r has sophisticated configuration and networking features often only available in larger enterprise installations, and is ideal for production file (NAS) and block (SAN) data storage, backup to disk (B2D) of critical business data, shared storage for virtualised environments including Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 and VMware vSphere, and application-specific storage such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.
The StorCenter ix12-300r mounts in an EIA-310 standard equipment rack and starts with 4TB and 8TB base configurations that can be expanded in four-drive increments of 4TB or 8TB, up to a total of 24TB.
Affordable rackmount array for primary storage, backup, application data
The new StorCenter ix12-300r uses the acclaimed EMC LifeLine software, a fully-developed Linux operating environment and suite of applications that protect data and perform valuable business tasks above and beyond simple storage. EMC LifeLine software is designed for cross-platform support of Windows-, Mac-, Linux- and UNIX-based computers and is HCL certified for leading virtualised environments, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer.
The StorCenter ix12-300r features new advances in the EMC LifeLine software's provisioning and storage management capabilities. It can be configured with different levels of RAID support: RAID 5 (pre-configured), RAID 6, RAID1 and RAID 10 (all with automatic RAID rebuild), as well as JBOD (a single volume of storage). RAID 6 provides dual parity drives for each group of data drives, further ensuring data integrity should two drives fail.
The ix12 supports storage pools that enable the drives inside the array to be grouped together by similar size and data protection mechanism. The ix12 also supports multiple storage pools - for example, an eight-drive RAID 6 group for file and database data and a four-drive RAID10 group for log data. Additionally, the ix12 supports online RAID type migration from RAID 1 to RAID 5 to RAID 6 to let users tune data protection on the fly. Finally, the ix12 supports online capacity expansion so users can expand their ix12 unit without impacting online operations.
New StorCenter ix12-300r features bring advanced storage capability to millions of SMEs
With the launch of the StorCenter ix12-300r, Iomega builds on its foundation of making sophisticated storage features from EMC's enterprise heritage available to millions of customers worldwide. IDC estimates that there are over 70 million businesses worldwide with fewer than 100 employees and another 700 000 businesses with between 100 and 500 employees (2). The StorCenter ix12-300r's new system and software functionality features enable SMEs to count on reliability, performance and data protection features with the deployment simplicity and flexibility they need, at a price they can afford.
With four Gigabit Ethernet connections and a high-performance Intel Core2Duo CPU, the StorCenter ix12-300r can serve as the only shared storage device a small enterprise or remote workgroup needs in today's data-intensive marketplace. The ix12-300r also has three USB 2.0 ports to support an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to ensure data integrity in the event of a power failure or to connect external storage capacity with USB drives for loading and unloading data. Two other new features debuting on the ix12-300r are 2GB of main memory to support both I/O workloads and software functionality, and user replaceable redundant hot-swap fans and power supplies to maximise system availability.
The new StorCenter ix12-300r Network Storage array supports the entire LifeLine feature set, making it one of the most advanced, innovative and easy-to-use network storage devices for small businesses and distributed enterprises today. To review a comprehensive list of the LifeLine features, such as Device-to-Device (D2D) Replication, iSCSI support, remote access, Time Machine support, Bluetooth capability and many others, please go to http://www.Iomega.com.
In addition, the StorCenter ix12-300r excels at providing high function shared storage for the most important IT functions found in small enterprises, including production data repository, backup target and application data store.
The ix12-300r will be available from Iomega's network of distributors and resellers, EMC Velocity channel partners and the EMC direct sales force.
The StorCenter ix12-300r Network Storage array is compatible with Windows, Mac OS, Linux and most UNIX operating systems. The interface is localised in 11 languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, German and Russian).
The StorCenter ix12-300r is certified with industry-leading virtualisation and backup software, including VMware vSphere, Windows Server 2008 R2, Citrix XenServer, Symantec Backup Exec, EMC Retrospect, and Acronis TrueImage and Backup Server 10. Additionally, the ix12-300r is the first Iomega product to be listed on the EMC Support Matrix (ESM). Listing on the ESM ensures customers that EMC has tested a product against its own set of real-world test cases so that product will operate in the most demanding of IT environments.
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(1) TB = 1 000 000 000 000 bytes
(2) IDC, Worldwide SMB Taxonomy 2009: Company Size Categories, Industries, and Technology Sources, Doc # 219332, July 2009.
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