New S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance Technology Fulfills
Promise of SANs for Federal and State Departmental Use
WASHINGTON, Booth 1249, FOSE 2002, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Combating the
assumption that storage area networks are a daunting, challenging prospect,
DataDirect Networks will be showing a new appliance that rewrites the rules.
At FOSE, DataDirect will be introducing event attendees to the company's new
S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance, designed to bring affordable and simple
SANs to departments and workgroups in the public and private sectors.
DataDirect, the leading provider of the world's highest performance
storage networking appliances, has based the new S2A 3000 line on their proven
Silicon Storage Appliance technology, creating a solution that offers the
leading features of their enterprise-class S2A 6000 appliances in a more
compact form factor with an exceptionally attractive price point.
The company will also be showcasing the S2A 6000 Silicon Storage Appliance
in their booth. Customers using DataDirect's Silicon Storage Appliances
include NASA, Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, U.S. Army Research Lab, White Sands
Missile Range, and NCSA, among others.
"DataDirect's S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance realizes the promise of
storage area networks by bringing an affordable, easy to manage, plug and play
appliance for federal, state and departmental workers," Brad Winett, vice
president product marketing, DataDirect Networks, said. "In an era where
government faces the challenge of doing more with less investment, the S2A
3000 can empower agencies with higher levels of productivity and scalability
while offering the best price-performance choice in the market."
The S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance is a simple to deploy, easy to
manage and affordable storage network appliance that allows small to mid-size
businesses to achieve application performance gains, cost-effective
scalability and simplified management. Silicon Storage Appliance users have
seen productivity and workflow increases of 600 percent from the underlying
appliance technology, which brings compelling return on investment benefits
for business. Selecting the S2A 3000 solutions for departmental use also
offers companies an easy and clean migration path to DataDirect's enterprise-
class Silicon Storage Appliance solutions as application and environment needs
grow.
DataDirect Networks has created the flexible Silicon Storage Appliances to
accelerate application performance, simplify information management, and lower
total costs of ownership. Each S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance supplies an
aggregate bandwidth from 100 to 400 megabytes per second (depending on
requirements) to workgroups typically consisting of one to eight Linux, Unix,
Windows NT/2000, Sun, AIX, HP-UX and SGI compute nodes. The S2A 3000 can
easily manage storage network environments ranging in capacity from 500GB to
7 Terabytes.
Deploying a departmental SAN using the S2A 3000 is virtually plug and
play, with users easily connecting servers and workstations into one side of
the 1U high appliance and commodity-priced JBOD disks into the other side.
System configuration and network virtualization is done in a quick, three-step
process. Scaling of the storage network and activation of additional software
modules (that are included in the S2A 3000) can be quickly and non-
disruptively activated with a software key.
Pricing
S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance solutions (appliance plus storage)
start from $39,000 (with 500 GB storage) and $49,995 (with 1 TB storage).
About DataDirect Networks, Inc.
DataDirect Networks is the leader in the rapidly growing market for
intelligent storage networking appliances. Serving IT professionals in the
government, defense, broadcasting, digital production, oil and gas and life
sciences industries, DataDirect Networks' Silicon Storage Appliances make it
easy, simple and trouble-free to accelerate and manage applications,
dramatically reducing TCO and increasing ROI. For more information, contact
DataDirect Networks at (818) 700-7600 or visit http://www.datadirectnet.com .
Silicon Storage Appliance is a trademark of DataDirect Networks, Inc. All
other names are property of their respective owners.
For further information please contact: Jim Hughes of DataDirect Networks
Inc., +1-818-700-7655, jhughes@datadirectnet.com
SOURCE DataDirect Networks Inc.
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CONTACT:
Jim Hughes of DataDirect Networks Inc.,
+1-818-700-7655, jhughes@datadirectnet.com
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