Infrant Technologies Announces X-RAID Technology; Infrant X-RAID Technology Introduces Revolutionary RAID Expansion Technology for Network Storage Appliances.FREMONT, Calif. -- Infrant Technologies(TM) today announced an innovative technology that addresses the inherent problem of adding additional storage to a single 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 A stand-alone hardware device or software environment dedicated to a specific task. See hardware appliance and software appliance. while preserving data. Infrant's patent-pending Expandable Protection(TM) (X-RAID) technology lowers the acquisition cost of NAS appliances by allowing instant automatic expansion of storage in a NAS RAID array while maintaining protection against single-disk failure. Current NAS RAID storage solutions must be pre-configured with a specific number of drives. Infrant X-RAID technology allows users to start with a single drive and add hard drives as they need them, keeping user data intact while the volume is expanded. Expandable Protection(TM) --1 Drive = NAS --2 Drives = NAS + RAID Protection --3 Drives = NAS + RAID Protection + Double Capacity --4 Drives = NAS + RAID Protection + Triple Capacity "Infrant X-RAID technology is simple to use and allows additional capacity and protection to be added with ease. Users can purchase an inexpensive NAS appliance with a single drive and add more space at their convenience," said Paul Tien Paul Shu-Pei Tien, Ph.D. is an American educator who was born in Tianjin, China and grew up in Taiwan. He came to the United States to pursue graduate education in electrical engineering, and later became a professor of electrical engineering in Ohio. In January 1978, Dr. , President at Infrant Technologies. "The biggest two issues consumers have with network attached storage is the prohibitive pro·hib·i·tive also pro·hib·i·to·ry adj. 1. Prohibiting; forbidding: took prohibitive measures. 2. entry price and the ability to expand the volume. Infrant Expandable Protection(TM) (X-RAID) technology solves both of these issues." Availability Infrant's X-RAID technology is fully integrated into the Infrant IT3100 Network Storage Processor family and is available now directly from Infrant Technologies. NAS devices incorporating Infrant X-RAID technology are expected to be available from Infrant 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 this quarter. 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 OEM partners. With the industry's most innovative storage solutions for home and SMB markets See SMB. , Infrant Technologies enables 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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