Infrant Technologies Announces ReadyNAS 1000, the Most Power Efficient Gigabit-SATA NAS in 1U Form Factor.FREMONT, Calif. -- Infrant Technologies(TM) today announced ReadyNAS(TM) 1000 -- the world's lowest powered 1U NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular based on Infrant's own Network Storage Processor (NSP (1) (Network Service Provider) An organization that provides a high-speed Internet backbone to ISPs and other service providers. Sprint, MCI and UUNET are examples of NSPs. See Internet backbones. ). Using Infrant's highly integrated IT1004 Network Storage Processor, ReadyNAS 1000 offers many advantages over other 1U NAS solutions. ReadyNAS 1000 ReadyNAS 1000 is in the same family of products with the currently shipping ReadyNAS 600 product, but it offers several additional features critical for the Small Medium Business (SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. ) market, such as hot plug ability for four SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. disk drives and rack mountable, 1U form factor. "With Infrant's dedicated NSP, we are able to design the world's lowest powered 1U NAS," said Steve Wang, VP of Sales at Infrant Technologies. "Along with hot plug capability, Gigabit Ethernet and hardware RAID 5, the hot-swappable ReadyNAS 1000 has the best price performance for 1U NAS." ReadyNAS 1000 offers a four-disk, full featured NAS solution supporting hot plug capable Serial ATA disks, hardware RAID5, Gigabit Ethernet, snapshot, and three levels of security. It measures just 16.9" wide, 22.5" deep and 1.7" high (1U) and uses about 100 watts total power with four drives. The ReadyNAS products are just a plug and play on the net compatible with various computing devices using Microsoft(TM) Windows(TM), Macintosh(TM) OS, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and others. "Infrant's ReadyNAS 1000 is a perfect solution for our customers seeking a very low power consumption NAS product," said Tony Yean yean v. yeaned, yean·ing, yeans v.intr. To bear young. Used of sheep and goats. v.tr. To give birth to; bear. Used of sheep and goats. , Director of Product Management & Business Development of ASI ASI, n See Anxiety Sensitivity Index. . "The benefit our customers receive is far more than just power savings; the rich features of the ReadyNAS 1000 fills a large void in the market today." Pricing and Availability ReadyNAS 1000 comes in 1 TB of raw storage and the suggested retail prices is $1,895. The entire ReadyNAS family of products, including the ReadyNAS 600 and ReadyNAS 1000, is available now from ASI in Fremont, CA, Microland Electronics in San Jose, CA, and Supercom in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, Canada. About Infrant Technologies Infrant Technologies is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. providing best solutions in network based storage to channels and OEM partners. With the industry's most innovative storage solutions for home and SMB markets, Infrant supplies the best featured NAS product for the price in the market. The ReadyNAS(TM) family of products offer rich feature sets which were available only to enterprise level users in the past at the entry level solution price. More information is available at www.infrant.com. ReadyNAS, RAIDiator and RAIDar are trademarks of Infrant Technologies. All other trademarks are the marks of their respective owners. |
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