Infortrend presents its new EonNAS storage solutions 5000

Infortrend has presented its new EonNAS solutions 5000, thereby offering unified storage solutions that enable businesses to address, effectively, to file- and block-based applications. Besides, Infortrend has also unveiled the new connectivity options in the EonNAS series 3000.

After the EonNAS series 3000 – designed for SMEs, remote branches and company departments – and the EonNAS Pro and 1000 – to meet the needs of SME and SOHO users, the EonNAS series 5000 is the latest addition to the growing EonNAS family of Infortrend. Providing excellent scalability, Optimized resource utilization and strong data protection, These solutions enable users to meet a wide variety of application requirements and easy business growth..

The EonNAS solution 5120 now available in EonNAS series 5000, It has quad-core Intel Xeon processors and up to 24GB of cache memory, and offers 1GbE connectivity options, 10Fiber Channel GbE (FC) in different configurations. Through storage capacity enclosures, the solution can support up to 96 disk drives.

EonNAS5000 series block-based data deduplication technology ensures that duplicate data is eliminated, helping users achieve storage space savings of up to 90 percent, and therefore, greatly to optimize the use of resources and reduce costs. Provisioning further contributes to optimizing utilization.

EonNAS series 500 also offers strong data protection. Integrated ZFS file system provides end-to-end data integrity through a hierarchical error detection mechanism, which eliminates data corruption that is not detected in other file systems. Snapshot and replication features help users efficiently create copies of data to protect against potential threats, while RAID technology adds another level of protection.

Thomas Kao, Infortrend Product Development Director, has explained that "the EonNAS series 5000 adds powerful solutions to our EonNAS family that allow us to better serve the needs of business environments. Combined with EonNAS Pro series, 1000 y 3000, today's presentation of the new systems 5000 “It further strengthens our presence in the NAS market and offers our customers an even broader set of options.”.

New connectivity options

Infortrend has also announced new connectivity options on the EonNAS series 3000. In addition to the existing configuration with four 1GbE ports, now the EonNAS system 3220 also offers expanded connectivity with eight 1GbE ports.

Like the EonNAS 3220, the EonNAS system 3230 now offers expanded connectivity with eight 1GbE ports. In addition, the EonNAS 3230 also comes with 10GbE and 8Gb/s FC connectivity options, allowing users to integrate their systems into different existing data center infrastructures and serve a greater variety of applications.