MaxOptix's Tape RAID Appliance To Target Growing Serverless Backup Market.As the first in a planned series of high-availability Tape RAID appliances for secondary storage solution provider MaxOptix Corp, the StreamIT meets the performance and reliability demands of Storage Area Network (SAN)-based serverless backup A type of LAN free backup that does not use any of the resources of an application server or a backup server. See LAN free backup. applications. This first tape RAID appliance combines a fault tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. chassis designed with MaxOptix's PowerStream RAID controller A disk controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers have become very popular for PATA and SATA drives. See RAID. for removable storage and Sony's robust AIT-2 drive technology. The "plug and play" StreamIT appliance meets an increasing market demand for higher-performance solutions, with transfer rates of over 2,200MB/min or over 130GB/hr with up to 400GB of capacity. The appliance supports both RAID level 1 -- with data mirrored across up to five individual drives or one or two pairs of drives -- and RAID level 3 operation where data and parity information are striped striped adj. Having lines or bands of different color or texture. Adj. 1. striped - marked or decorated with stripes stripy patterned - having patterns (especially colorful patterns) across five AIT-2 drives, while taking advantage of the aggregate bandwidth of all tape drives. This creates data transfer rates of more than 130GB/hr and providing corporate customers with a failure-resistant tape solution that can withstand a single AIT drive or media failure and continue backup or restore operations with no loss of data or interruption of service. MaxOptix new StreamIT appliance is currently available in rack-mount configurations with five-drive configurations with either an Ultra-2 SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. or Fibre Channel interface. List prices are $29,995 and $34,995 respectively. The new tape array is supported on all major storage management software applications as well as all operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . |
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