Infrant Technologies Announces Wide Availability of ReadyNAS 600 from Major Distributors; The World's First Network Storage Processor-based NAS.FREMONT, Calif. -- Infrant Technologies(TM) today announced that the ReadyNAS(TM) 600 - the world's first Network Attached Storage (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 ) appliance powered by a 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. ) - is widely available from major IT distributors in the United States and Canada. Using Infrant's highly integrated IT1004 Network Storage Processor, Infrant's ReadyNAS 600 offers the most feature-rich NAS capabilities in the smallest form factor available today. The ReadyNAS 600 is now available from ASI ASI, n See Anxiety Sensitivity Index. in Fremont, CA, Microland Electronics in San Jose, CA, and Supercom in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, Canada. By integrating NAS hardware functions into a single NSP, it offers many benefits including higher reliability, lower cost, smaller size, lower power consumption, and quieter operation. "Our IT customers are looking for NAS solutions that are easy to deploy yet light on the budget," said Edman Lau, Senior Product Manager of Supercom Canada. "Infrant's ReadyNAS 600 brings powerful hardware features into an integrated, reliable solution. With the increasing user demands placed upon network storage, we are glad to include the ReadyNAS 600 as part of our growing storage products." ReadyNAS With the explosion of data storage requirements, 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. customers are forced to look for the best storage solution for their limited budget. The ReadyNAS 600 provides the perfect solution by offering a four-disk, full-featured NAS solution supporting the most advanced technologies including Serial ATA disks, hardware-accelerated RAID5, Gigabit Ethernet, snapshot technology, and three levels of security. "An integrated advanced architecture is key to both system reliability and system performance," said Steve Wang, VP of Sales at Infrant Technologies. "By combining advanced hardware technologies with our NSP technology, we are able to offer the best architecture for NAS appliances." In addition to back up, ReadyNAS 600 is perfect for other storage applications, such as Digital Video Surveillance, Digital Video Editing (DVE See digital video effects. ), High Definition Personal Video Recorder See DVR. (HD-PVR) and Home Media Center. The ReadyNAS family of products offer plug and play simplicity to any network and are compatible with Microsoft(TM) Windows(TM), Macintosh(TM) OS and 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). . Pricing and Availability The ReadyNAS 600 is now available in three capacities: 480GB, 640GB and 1 TB of raw storage. The suggested retail prices for the three products are $1,195, $1,395 and $1,595 respectively. 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. that provides the best solutions in network-based storage to channels and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners. With the industry's most innovative storage solutions for home and SMB markets, Infrant Technologies supplies the best full-featured and price-efficient NAS appliances in the market. The ReadyNAS(TM) family of products offer rich feature sets that were only available to enterprise-level users in the past at the entry-level 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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