8 12 news: IBM has announced a new storage array IBMTotalStorageN3700 products, aimed at further expanding the fast-growing small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) market solutions to meet SMB market for storage. The first is the entry-level product IBMTotalStorageN3700, this is NetworkAppliance recent alliance with IBM to develop the fourth quarter of 2005 to expand the product road map after the first launch of the product. The number of employees for less than 1,000 small and medium-sized companies provides a economical and powerful Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions; In addition, the product of the wide range of applications, the need for remote office and branch office storage of large-scale distribution Enterprise. In addition, the device also uses iSCSI technology, the technology is currently promoting the growth of SMB storage market; according to market analyst firm IDC predicted that by 2009 the market potential of the technology will be an average annual growth rate of 107%. IBMTotalStorageN3700 product of the largest storage capacity can be expanded to 16TB, for customers it is a powerful NAS solution, the solution not only have IP connectivity and convenience features, but also has a universal iSCSISAN technology. N3700 provides for the needs of SMB customers a variety of features and functionality, including support for disaster recovery, allowing users to mirror data to the same equipment in-house or remote device. IBM Storage Systems Division vice president BarryRudolph disk system, said: SMB customers need a simple, easy-to-deploy solutions to meet the all-day running of the business environment, data needs. Release of the product only NetAPP and IBM to provide a series of open solutions The first part of the two companies will also demand an environment in which to rely on a variety of critical information company provides a wide range of innovative solutions. NetworkAppliance products and partners PatrickRogers vice president, said: The product's release to prove NetworkAppliance the two companies IBM and the technical strength through our cooperation has already begun to provide customers with real solutions. We are very excited to see that IBM is rapidly to the SME customers of NetApp technology, and we look forward to In the near future, we are in support of IBM's technological advantage can bring more customers. To meet the challenges of regulatory compliance, IBM also announced the introduction of TotalStorageDR550 Express version, the single logical storage archive system based on Can not be erased and can not rewrite the information storage management. This easy to install, configure and run the new products to meet the growing SME demand for data storage, including the emerging government and industry regulations. The storage capacity of 1TB can be extended to 56TB, at the same time using encryption technology can help in the event of theft of data protection; In addition, the device also uses a data replication technology, can run in the event of failure to protect the information. IBM will be the SMB market for a variety of products for the launch of the Center SAN starts toolbox to help small corporate clients will be integrated into a local store and at the same time to ensure that the entire company's server can access these storage and sharing. SAN Start Kit for x Series server environments, including a switch IBMTotalStorageL10 storage and use of dual-controller disk storage IBMTotalStorageDS400 Express, in support of the Working Group on a variety of storage applications of an entry-level Fiber Channel solution Including e-mail servers, databases and Web collaboration services. In addition, the product also includes a detailed step-by-step install guide to help customers quickly and easily install storage networking solutions.