Winchester Systems Expands Its FlashDisk(R) OpenSAN Product Line; Tiered storage solution scales to 112 terabytes.BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Winchester Systems, Inc., a leading data storage solutions company, today introduced the new FX-700 FlashDisk OpenSAN with double the internal bus speed of the previous generation and capable of scaling to 112 terabytes while accommodating both Fibre Channel (SBOD SBOD Switched Bunch of Disks (storage networking) SBOD Student Board of Directors SBOD Spinning Beachball of Doom (Mac OS X) SBOD Settlement Balance Order Destined based) primary and 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. secondary storage within the same physical storage array. This new storage array is designed for midrange and enterprise data storage environments requiring the highest levels of performance and availability while seamlessly supporting both primary and secondary data storage. "The FX-700 is our fastest tiered storage solution with full Enterprise Class availability features," stated Dave Geene, the company's vice president for sales and marketing. "We employ a point-to-point connectivity architecture to all disks in the system whether Fibre Channel or Serial ATA. This SBOD (switched bunch of disks) architecture eliminates bus contention related issues associated with Fibre Channel arbitrated loop and therefore ensures the maximum possible performance, reliability and availability in a storage system." There are many other high availability features in the system such as separate host I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output connections from the RAID controllers that ensure no disruption of host connectivity if a RAID controller requires replacement, and the ability to do non-disruptive firmware upgrades which ensures true 7x24 continuous uptime. Included with every FlashDisk data storage solution is the FlashConsole appliance, providing complete centralized management using any browser-based workstation on the LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. . FlashAlert, a 24-hour "call-home" remote monitoring and alert service is also included for one year. Pricing and availability: Products are available within 3 weeks, with list pricing starting at under $70,000 MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) . About Winchester Systems, Inc. Winchester Systems provides network-attached storage, direct-attached storage, tiered-storage and storage area network enterprise data storage solutions. These solutions include high performance iSCSI, 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. , SATA and Fibre Channel RAID disk arrays; tape backup devices and other high performance commercial and military grade data storage for mid-range servers including Windows, Windows Clusters, Linux, Linux Clusters, 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). . For more information visit Winchester Systems on the web at www.winsys.com. |
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