Nexsan ATAboy2™ from Open Storage Solutions’® Voted Product Of The Year
SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine pick ATAboy2 as their Gold Medal winner and disk subsystem Product of the year.
BRAMPTON, ON January 14, 2003 — Open Storage Solutions® Inc, a leading data storage system integrator is proud to announce that the ATAboy2™ the ATA based high-performance RAID system has been chosen as Product of the year by SearchStorage.com and Storage Magazine. (January 6, 2003 searchstorage.com)
The ATAboy 2 was initially designed for disk-based backup, but it quickly began to be adopted by organizations that store large quantities of ‘fixed content.’ For example, the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City uses it to archive digitized television and radio shows.
“The challenges of 2002 have given companies tighter budgets and a shrinking workforce to maintain the same level of service with an ever increasing data volume,” said Andrew Betterton, President and CEO of Open Storage Solutions. “The ATAboy2 clearly finds its niche where the need for high-performance meets a flat or shrinking budget.”
Based on the new generation of ATA drives, the larger ATAbeast™ comes with 13.4T Bytes of capacity wrapped in a 4U enclosure, with a list price of about $60,000. That's under $5/GB, or under a half of a cent per megabyte.
The ATAboy2’s relatively high performance also impressed the judges. Unlike some ATA-based arrays, all 42 drives in the ATAbeast can be active simultaneously, for 25,000 IOPS and sustained data transfer rates of 180MB/s.
Judges also seemed to appreciate the ATAboy2 for the ease with which it integrates into end-user environments. Unlike some ATA-based arrays targeted at backup or fixed content, you don't need to write to any special APIs, nor are you limited to using it as a target for a backup application. It can be used in conjunction with a D2D data management application, which provides timed online replication with multiversion control so that files are stored and accessed in native file format, for immediate restores. This is in contrast to tape backup applications, which store data in their own proprietary format.
The criteria used for evaluation were, Innovation, Performance, Ease of integration into environment, Ease of use and manageability, Functionality and Value. Open Storage Solutions is Nexsan's Authorized Premier Partner for Canada.
About Open Storage Solutions
Open Storage Solutions, Inc has been designing and integrating advanced storage products for high performance computer applications for over 25 years. The company has a total commitment to providing the very best value solutions by utilizing leading edge technology and backing it with a high level of after sales service. Open Storage Solutions provides storage solutions from disk and tape systems, RAID systems as well as Enterprise Class servers, Network Attached Storage and Storage Area Networks.