EMC has announced its lowest-priced NAS gateway
device, which targets enterprise remote office data backup and
recovery.
The Windows-based NetWin 110 has a starting list price of $6,100
and is the first such device to be sold exclusively through EMC
distributors, such as Arrow Electronics, Avnet Hall-Mark and Tech
Data.
Tony Asaro, an analyst at Enterprise Storage Group, said EMC’s
latest product could allow enterprises to install hundreds or
thousands of gateway NAS, or network-attached storage, devices to
mirror data back to a central data centre over Ethernet and
centrally manage operations.
"It's something these large organisations are well equipped to
do," Asaro added.
While the NetWin 110 is small, it has many of the functions
normally found in higher-end products, such as storage monitoring
and alerting capabilities and automatic storage provisioning. The
Windows Storage Server 2003-based product also includes features
such as Volume Shadow Copy Service and Virtual Disk Service.
EMC said the NetWin 110 will be made available in
direct-attached and gateway configurations and will come with trial
copies of its Legato division’s RepliStor data protection software.
Licences for working models of RepliStor software will start at
$1,500.
EMC said the NetWin 110 can use the Clariion CX300, CX500 and
CX700 midrange disc arrays for storage, significantly boosting the
cost. EMC's Clariion storage arrays serve as the back ends for the
NetWin 110 NAS gateway device, with the CX300 going for $31,875.
The CX500 sells for $66,875, and the CX700 goes for $121,875. All
three have 584GB of usable storage.
Tom Joyce, senior director of NAS product marketing, said the
NetWin 110’s biggest play will be in the high-volume market of
consolidating direct-attached storage systems in the remote office,
eliminating the need to change out backup tapes on-site.
"The NetWin 110 is actually customer-installable," he said.
"That brings us into an entirely new territory."
Lucas Mearian writes for
Computerworld