Date: 17/04/2011

American Megatrends introduces dual controller SAN for disaster recovery needs

American Megatrends has introduced new StorTrends 3400i SAN storage appliance featuring the new, 64-bit version of StorTrends iTX network storage software - StorTrends iTX 2.8 - which is optimized for this platform and designed to be at home in a data center or server room as front-line storage for high-volume transactions or as part of a tiered storage solution. OS-agnostic High Availability makes it suitable for mission-critical data that requires "always on" availability and reliability, while the auto fail over capability between its dual containers handles any disaster or interruption smoothly.

Paresh Chatterjee, Chief Technology Officer of AMI, points out the performance gains and high reliability when using the 3400i appliance in a Disaster Recovery (DR) solution. "Customers seeking high performance along with high uptime will find the StorTrends 3400i very attractive, as the dual controllers with Quad Core Intel processors act in an active/active configuration to increase I/O throughput," he says.

The hardware and software improvements over its previous 3U StorTrends 3200i IP-SAN, includes:

Dual Controller Configuration: Auto Failover/Failback in Active/Active or Active/Passive Configurations
Software RAID with RAID-RT Technology: Scalability to 256 TB
Data Archiving: Data Deduplication and Compression for Archiving Data
Auto Tiering: Hierarchical Tiering of Data with Information Lifecycle Management
Near-CDP with Data Snapshots: Advanced Redirect on Write (ROW) Snapshots, with support for 8,048 Snapshots
WDS Technology: Compression, Encryption, Data Dedupe and WAN Optimization for fast replication
Data Replication: Replicate Data to DR (Disaster Recovery) and Remote Sites
Vertical Capacity Expansion: Save hardware and disk costs by expansion with up to seven StorTrends 3401j JBOD Appliances, with multipathing for increased performance and reliability
Virtualization: Support for leading virtualization suites including VMware®, Microsoft® Hyper-V and Citrix® Xen
Multi-Platform Replication: Lower DR costs by replicating from the StorTrends 3400i dual controller appliance to a single controller StorTrends 2400i
The StorTrends 3400i keeps many of the aspects of StorTrends, including the ManageTrends GUI for "single pane of glass" storage management, easy-to-use wizards for simple, fast configuration and a host of all-inclusive, enterprise-class features preinstalled on every StorTrends appliance at no added cost.

Because the StorTrends 3400i features Asynchronous Replication with WDS, it is also ideally suited for Disaster Recovery (DR) applications requiring a secondary appliance in an offsite location.

American Megatrends President and CEO S. Shankar commented that "because the StorTrends 3400i is a dual controller storage appliance, it conserves hardware (i.e., duplication of additional disk) and integration costs and precious rack space while providing outstanding uptime. From data backup and recovery, remote or local storage, to replication and multiple site backups, the StorTrends 3400i truly does it all."

To learn more about the new StorTrends 3400i dual controller 3U IP-SAN data storage appliance and the full line of StorTrends data storage products from American Megatrends visit www.stortrends.com