NEC Offers Starter Data Storage for Midrange Market
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The Hydrastor HS3-210, which can serve as a starter system for businesses with limited budgets and be scaled up in a modular fashion as needed, is designed for SMBs and remote or branch offices of larger enterprises.
NEC on June 15 unveiled an entry-level addition to its bread-and-butter Hydrastor
storage array lineup designed to handle all instances of enterprise
storage: everyday data backup, archiving and longer-term storage for compliance
or legal purposes.
The HS3-210, which the company is calling the "mini-HydraStor," can serve as a starter system for businesses with limited
budgets and scale up as needed. It is aimed expressly at small
and midsize business and remote or branch offices of larger enterprises.
The lower-capacity Hydrastor configurations are designed for companies with
high second-tier SATA (serial ATA) data stores that still want to take advantage
of the long-term efficiency of a high-end, capacity-optimized storage system.
"Seventy percent of archived data is never touched, and only about 10 to
15 percent of business data is considered active," Gideon Senderov, NEC
director of product management and technical marking, told eWEEK.
"The HS3-210 is optimized for this reality. This is capacity-optimized storage
for the channel and midmarket enterprise; it also maintains full compatibility
with the Hydrastor grid storage platform for large enterprises," Senderov
said.
Key new enterprise-class features, NEC said, include: DataRedux inline
deduplication and compression; snapshots, now included with all Hydrastor products; RepliGrid, which
supports disaster recovery requirements when data needs to be sent and stored
at an off-site location; and Hydralock, which ensures the authenticity
of critical data and maintains the chain of custody for regulated business
environments.
Hydrastor HS3-210 is available to order now. It will begin shipping June 29.
For more information, go here.
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