Iomega Announces New Top-of-the-Line Rackmount Network Storage for SMBs and Distributed Enterprises
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Iomega Announces New Top-of-the-Line Rackmount Network Storage for SMBs
and Distributed Enterprises: New Iomega StorCenter px12-350r Network
Storage Array
Iomega Ratchets Up Power and Performance of Category-Leading Rackmount
NAS:
* Intel Core2 Duo Processor, 7,200 RPM Hard Drives, Optional Solid
State Drives
* VMware, Citrix and Windows Certifications
* Full Hyper-V Live Migration Support
* Deduplicating Backup with EMC Avamar
* Revolutionary Iomega Personal Cloud Technology With No Fees
* Expandable From 8TBs Up to 36TBs in a Single Array
* EMC Designed and Tested With Enterprise Results For SMB Economics
* Prices Start at less than US$6,000
SAN DIEGO - August 23, 2011 - Iomega, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC) and a
global leader in data protection, today announced the worldwide launch
of the new Iomega® StorCenter™ px12-350r Network Storage Array, a
powerful next-generation network storage solution delivering the highest
levels of performance and advanced data protection for small-to
medium-sized businesses and distributed enterprises.
Featuring world class EMC® storage and security technologies, the new
StorCenter px12-350r Network Storage Array replaces the Iomega
StorCenter ix12-300r as Iomega’s top-of-the-line rackmount network
storage array. The new StorCenter px12-350r combines the best software
capabilities with category-leading hardware to improve capacity and
performance, making the px12-350r ideally suited for use in production
data stores, server virtualization, backup-to-disk target and video
surveillance – all at amazing entry-level prices as well as a
budget-keeping and category-shattering price of less than US$10,500 for
the maximum 36 terabytes of network storage.
With full Hyper-V Live migration support, multiple RAID levels and hot
swap drives, certification for the most popular virtualization
environments and the only SMB rackmount NAS in the industry to natively
support Avamar® deduplicating backup, the new StorCenter px12-350r is
sophisticated data management and protection that is also easy to use,
easy to manage, and affordable for SMBs to own.
Executive Quote
“The new Iomega StorCenter px12-350r leverages leading EMC
technologies, bringing best-in-class storage, security and cloud
capabilities that cater to the network storage and management needs of
today’s small and mid-sized businesses, and distributed
enterprises,” said Jonathan Huberman, President of Iomega. “As the
flagship of our most advanced and powerful business class of NAS
devices, the px12-350r incorporates the latest in high performance
technologies including solid state disk drives, expanded memory and 3TB
7,200 RPM disk drives, as well as Iomega’s Personal Cloud technology
and the only network storage array in the world to natively support
Avamar deduplicating backups. The px12-350r is truly advanced network
storage that can be the foundation for today’s high growth SMBs and
distributed enterprises.”
Analyst Quote
“Small and mid-sized businesses face many of the same challenges as
larger organizations, including rapid storage growth, infrastructure
sprawl and even more severe budget constraints,” said David Vellante,
Co-Founder of The Wikibon Project. “The problem is that smaller
organizations don’t have the resources to manage increasing levels of
data complexity. What they need are extensible products with rich
feature sets and rock solid data assurance that are dead simple to
operate. The new Iomega StorCenter px12-350r array is a leading example
of an affordable solution for today’s SMB buyer that delivers turnkey
business value without breaking the bank.”
Configurations of the new Iomega StorCenter px12-350r Network Storage
Array
A 2U Form factor rackmount NAS with 12 slots for drive expansion, the
StorCenter px12-350r comes in two base configurations: 4 x 2TB drives
for minimum of 8TB* of network storage, and
4X 3TB drives for 12TB of
network storage. Users can expand capacity with 7,200 rpm SATA HDDs in
four-drive increments up to 12 x 3TB drives for up to 36TBs of network
storage. Users can also add very high performance 128GB solid state
drives (SSDs), which are available from Iomega.
Advanced Business Features of the new Iomega StorCenter px12-350r
In addition to standard network storage features, the new StorCenter
px12-350r has many of today’s most important business class features
and advanced capabilities, including:
* High performance computing with Intel Core2 Duo processor and
expanded 4GB memory.
* Four gigabit Ethernet ports with bonding capability for load
balancing and high performance bandwidth aggregation or failover.
* Advanced Data protection with RAID levels 1, 10, 5 and 6 with hot
spare, automatic RAID rebuild and hot swap functionality (RAID 0 and
JBOD mode also available).
* UPS support, hot swap drives and data replication with
device-to-device copy jobs that can be defined and scheduled as needed
to keep data backed up and secure.
* Server class pedigree – certified for VMware® vSphere 5, Citrix®
XenServer™ 5.6, and Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2.
* With Avamar support on the px12-350r, users have the industry’s
first storage product that natively supports EMC’s industry-leading
Avamar sub-file deduplication for remote office/branch office (ROBO)
backup.
* Sophisticated networking – Ethernet port bonding for load
balancing, high performance bandwidth aggregation or failover, as well
as VLAN tagging for security and manageability.
* ISCSI target capability provides block level access for most
efficient storage utilization, as well as topping out at a blazing
425MB/second in sequential read I/O performance.
* Storage pools group together drives of like size and RAID protection
to simplify management.
* Windows Active Directory Trusted Domains, MSCS and Hyper-V Live
Migration Support.
* Embedded AXIS® Video Hosting System (AVHS) provides support for up to
12 AXIS IP security cameras for affordable and superior video
surveillance solutions.
Iomega Personal Cloud – manage your own cloud with no extra costs
Iomega® Personal Cloud is a revolutionary technology that allows users
to protect and share data by connecting their Iomega StorCenter network
storage array devices to other individual devices via the Internet.
Unlike public and private cloud applications, Iomega’s Personal Cloud
technology comes without incremental costs and is completely self-owned
– the content and accessibility is always under the user’s control.
Bundled with every Iomega StorCenter device, including the new
StorCenter px12-350r, Iomega Personal Cloud enables offsite backups,
collaboration with others, easy sharing of large files, archiving and
other data management and protection benefits to an organization.
Use Cases for the StorCenter px12-350r
The new Iomega StorCenter px12-350r is the ideal network storage device
for multiple business uses, including:
* Databases: Boot performance by running small database applications
entirely from a StorCenter px12-350r utilizing SSDs. Or enhance
performance and lower costs for larger databases by running application
files, log files and index files from a px12 with SSDs, and then use
traditional SATA HDD storage for the actual data.
* Offsite Backup: No more worrying about important up-to-date data
residing in one place. Keep data protected by installing one StorCenter
ix12-350r at the main location and a second unit (or any of Iomega’s
StorCenter NAS devices) at a second location such as a warehouse, second
office or the home office. Both StorCenter units can be in the user’s
Personal Cloud, and the “Copy Jobs” functionality allows the user to
copy their entire storage or selected files and folders from one unit to
the other.
* Virtualized Infrastructure: The StorCenter px12-350r works flawlessly
with all leading virtualization platforms, allowing users to create
high
-performance shared storage resources for virtualized servers by
incorporating an Iomega StorCenter ix12-350r. Take a step further and
utilize SSDs along with SATA drives to experience dramatically enhanced
shared storage performance for virtualized environments. SMBs will find
the px12-350r particularly appealing for virtualized desktop
infrastructure (VDI) environments like VMware View.
Upgrades for ix12-300r Customers
Iomega is also pleased to announce the availability of upgrades for the
thousands of StorCenter ix12-300r systems in use today. Current
StorCenter ix12-300r customers can upgrade to the new 4GB memory, as
well as add SSDs to existing ix12-300r units. And they can continue to
add SATA disk drives to expand capacity to the ix12-300r’s limit.
Current StorCenter ix12-300r -users should check the Iomega support site
for the latest software updates. Contact your Iomega reseller for
further details.
Availability and Warranty
The new Iomega® StorCenter™ px12-350r Network Storage Array is now
available worldwide.
The StorCenter px12-350r is available in two models: the 8TB model (4 x
2TB HDD) is US$5,999.99, and the 12TB model (4 X 3TB HDD) is US$6,999.99
(7200 rpm SATA HDDs are used in both models.)
There are two Expansion Pack options for flexibility and growth: the
8TB Expansion Pack (4 x 2TB HDD) is US$1,399.99, and the 12TB Expansion
Pack (4 X 3TB HDD) is US$1,699.99. Additionally, 128GB Solid State
Drives (SSDs) are available from Iomega at US$399.99 each.
All pricing is U.S. suggested retail.
Also available are single spare SSDs, spare power supply, spare fan and
spares kits that include a single spare drive (2TB or 3TB HDD), fan and
power supply.
The Iomega StorCenter px12-350r Network Storage Array includes a
standard three-year limited warranty with phone support 8 hours a day,
five days a week. Optional service plans include Iomega’s Enhanced
Service Plan which includes 24x7 phone support with advance
replacement.
To learn more about the new Iomega StorCenter px12-350r Network Storage
Array, please go to www.iomega.com.
About Iomega
Iomega is a worldwide leader of innovative storage solutions for small
businesses, distributed enterprises, home offices, and consumers. A
wholly-owned subsidiary of EMC, the world's premier information
infrastructure technology provider, Iomega has shipped more than 14
million terabytes of storage since its inception in 1980. Today,
Iomega’s portfolio includes industry-leading network attached
storage solutions that utilize world class EMC storage and security
technologies as well as Iomega’s Personal Cloud technology; one of the
industry’s broadest selections of portable and desktop hard drives;
multimedia drives that make it easy to view video and Internet content
in the living room; and the one-of-a-kind Iomega® SuperHero™ Backup &
Charger for iPhone. To learn more go to www.iomega.com. Resellers
worldwide can visit www.ioclub.ne.
About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service
providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service.
Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through
innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud
computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze
their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted
and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at
www.EMC.com.
EMC Canada (www.EMC2.ca), headquartered in Toronto with nine offices
from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation.
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