DoSTOR analysis of the store on September 14: When the network storage for small and medium enterprises to start sales, manufacturers have begun to search for small companies in different sales approach rather than push to reduce the proportion of Fiber Channel SAN.
Intradyn, Tandberg Data, BellMicroproducts, Netgear and Maxtor recently faced with a shortage of IT skills and small businesses, has issued related equipment and low-end NAS products. They shared ideas: the need to build the storage system simple as far as possible, so that small companies have the capacity to store.
Tandberg Data's vice president of business development DaveLicosati said: If the IT sector but only to let the IT staff to do the work, it is necessary to know how to connect storage of all knowledge is challenging. Following is a recent New release times, from which we can see that the price of network storage space still fell.
Intradyn today ComplianceVault06, this is the ComplianceVault e-mail archiving equipment to upgrade the product, ComplianceVault the target user is a small company, which began shipping in July last year.
The upgrade version of the product with a new GUI interface, search and audit functions have been improved. Disk capacity from 320GB to a 1TB, and SonyWORM with tape drives connected to the price in the range of 8995-11495 US dollars between.
Intradyn CEO GaryDoan said that the first generation of ComplianceVault was originally aimed at small brokers, but he found other e-mail archiving for small and medium enterprises are also interested. He said Intradyn's ComplianceVault now has more than 200 customers, only about half of them are brokers and traders.
He added: ComplianceVault the use of the company are not necessarily in order to follow the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) rules and regulations, but to better preserve the e-mail.
Doan said Intradyn is preparing to upgrade RocketVault, this is the beginning of 2003, shipments The first backup products for small and medium enterprises. He said: especially for small and medium enterprises, this product has very great significance. We expect to face competition in the future. Brbrbr Tandberg Data (TandbergData) last week issued new InteliStor is referred to Doan's competitors One.
InteliStor March of this year will be InoStor acquisition of equipment InteliNAS, Tandberg LTO-2 tape loaders and Symantec BackupExec software integration in a D2D2T backup system. The general configuration of the equipment 1U rack capacity of 480GB, 2TB, 1.6TB, the price in the range of 5999-12500 US dollars between.
Tandberg Data Licosoti of small and medium enterprises that will ultimately interested in Fiber Channel SAN, but not now. He said the InteliStor pre-loaded backup software and Web management interface intended to simplify the new IT personnel.
He said: Users will see a very simple NAS equipment, they do not need any new school. They do not need to drive mapping, simply know how to insert Ethernet.
storage distributors last week BellMicroproducts Anthology marketing solutions company YellowMachineNAS backup products, with a capacity of 1TB and 2TB. Anthology in January this year on the introduction of YellowMachine. This product contains a RAID with 8-port Ethernet switch.
Maxtor will be launched in October SharedStoragePlus. The new equipment includes backup software, a media server, as well as more storage space. It is mainly for individual consumers, SOHOs and SMBs to provide streaming video and document sharing. Disk drive capacity of 200GB, 300GB and 500GB, priced at 300 U.S. dollars to 500 U.S. dollars.