Seagate Business Storage

The Seagate Technology company submitted in October, 2013 the Seagate Business Storage NAS systems of a form factor 1U in 8-and 4-disk configurations. The new solutions with a capacity from 4 to 32 Tbyte focused on the small and medium enterprises provide the centralized data backup, data protection and remote access to crucial information.

The Seagate Business Storage 1U NAS systems created for storage and data protection in corporate environment guarantee performance necessary for the enterprises, supporting several simultaneous connections that allows each employee to save data in the centralized DWH and to exchange files. Models of the NAS systems of Seagate help to organize backup of information in the uniform centralized storage within one corporate network from all computers working both with Windows, and with Mac and are compatible to software for backup based on Windows and also to Time Machine from Apple for computers under control of Mac OS X. Besides, on the rack NAS systems with support of eight and four drives new own OS of producer – Seagate of NAS OS, about idle time in control of the Web console for server control as at office, and far off is preset.

Access to NAS from any place in the world is provided thanks to the integrated cloud service of Wuala and applications of a corporate class for the Mac and PC systems and also smartphones and tablets. The free application of Wuala automatically synchronizes files and provides access to them from mobile devices of the employees who are out of office. Crucial and confidential files are protected from threats and unauthorized access thanks to enciphering and the organization of data transmission from a NAS system to directly certain receivers.

A rack NAS system with podderzhkoq eight drives uses the hardware of a corporate class that does it optimal for the enterprise with the state to 250 people for which higher level of performance and reliability is necessary. Thanks to corporate software of NAS OS from Seagate and to the built-in dual-core processor of Intel with a frequency of 2.3 GHz the new server provides the high transmission rate of files. The design of DWH is expected eight 3.5-inch hard drives of a corporate class Enterprise Capacity (before Constellation ES.3) with a possibility of hot swap that it is convenient during the carrying out upgrade of storage systems and maintenance. The cooling system with fans of the innovation construction doing more effective and stable work of DWH and convenient for maintenance is provided in this model. The reserve and replaced power supplies and the reserved Gigabit Ethernet connections in addition guarantee that a NAS system will always be in working order.

A rack NAS system on four drives is intended for the companies with the state to 100 people. This model provides the high performance and capacity at the affordable price. Thanks to the hard drives optimized for NAS systems, the configured functions of maintenance after failure, to specialized management tools a power supply and resistance to vibrations a system provides optimum level of performance and reliability. Productive and capacious disks of Seagate of NAS HDD in the best way are suitable for NAS storages. Transmission rate of files, high for this class of servers, is reached due to use of the Intel Atom dual-core processor with a frequency of 2.13 GHz in combination with 2 Gbytes of RAM. The built-in support of the iSCSI interface provides the maximum capacity and compatibility with virtual environments.

2013: Seagate Business Storage Windows Server 4-bay NAS

On March 19, 2013 the Seagate Technology plc company provided replenishment of a line of DWH for the working groups and the SMB enterprises – Seagate Business Storage Windows Server 4-bay NAS.

Description

The four-disk NAS system is intended for offices or the working groups up to 50 employees. NAS centralizes storage system, ensuring access, joint work and safe distribution of files for all computers of network and also the centralized storage of backup copies for all computers.

The Seagate Business Storage Windows Server 4-bay NAS device is created especially for the business using Windows IT infrastructure, allowing it is easy to expand branches of offices or to add local storage system to the existing network. The built-in support of the Active Directory provides management of users by means of setup through the existing AD contrary to manual creation of each user and determination of access rights, control for each device. The Windows Storage server is seamlessly integrated into the existing Windows environment.

Windows Storage Spaces helps to protect data due to preserving of backup copies on several disks, the computer-controlled installed disks. Enciphering of BitLocker provides to files protection against unauthorized access.

The new NAS server provides work performance for reasonable price for small and medium business - from $320 to $420 as of March, 2013. At the expense of the Intel Atom dual-core processor of 2.13 GHz together with Windows Storage Server 2012 high performance at file transfer on network is reached. Disks of Seagate of NAS HDD support the configured error correction control, specialized department by energy consumption and resistance to vibration for the optimal performance and reliability.

System Monitoring developed by software Seagate company simplifies management due to integration of the most typical tasks into one interface. The built-in support of iSCSI allows to receive a maximum of performance and compatibility for virtual environments.