Adaptec moves into the midsize market with iSCSI array

Storage in the Enterprise This newsletter is sponsored by Packeteer Your coffee is on us. No tactics. No pressure. Spend 5 minutes on a phone call to learn how Packeteer(r) can help improve your WAN's delivery of Microsoft services to remote locations using the new Packeteer iShaper WAN technology. Register today for an honest assessment of how we can help you and get a $25 Starbucks gift card. Register today. Network World's Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter, 09/20/07 Adaptec moves into the midsize market with iSCSI array By Deni Connor Adaptec last week fueled the iSCSI fire for affordable midrange storage systems with the introduction of the Snap Server 700i storage appliances. The Snap Server 700i features as much as 36TB of storage capacity and uses either Serial-Attached SCSI or Serial ATA drives. It is designed for midsize businesses and works in Linux, VMware or Windows environments. Additionally the Snap Server 700i can be synchronously mirrored to another 700i and provide multipathing support for attached Windows servers. Network World Storage Buyer's Guide If you're in the market for anything from a tape library to an on-line backup service to a complete, drop-it-in-place SAN Solution, check out this Buyer's Guide with close to 200 products divided among specific, storage market segments. Click here to research products now! The Snap Server 700i comes in three rack-mountable models, each in a 1U enclosure. The Snap Server 720i offers 1TB to 2TB of capacity and uses Serial ATA drives. The Snap Server 730i provides 3TB of capacity and uses Serial ATA drives. The Snap Server 750i provides 1.2TB and uses 15,000 RPM Serial Attached SCSI drives. Additional capacity can be obtained by using as many as eight Adaptec SANbloc S50 expansion chassis, which houses as many as 12 hot-swappable Serial ATA or Serial-Attached SCSI drives. According to Adaptec, the 700i is ideal for hosting Microsoft Exchange or SQL Server applications. Those applications would be best deployed on a synchronously mirrored pair of 700i arrays. The software included with the 700i uses Microsoft Virtual Shadow Copy Service snapshots to back up the data without involving the application servers. The 700i uses the OnTarget OS, which is based on Linux and supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. It also features redundant hot-swappable power supplies and fans. The Snap Server 700i family starts at $8,000.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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