Complements software-based cloud enablement
TwinStrata last Monday announced that its CloudArray software is now available as a SAN appliance. The appliance is a 2U rack-mountable enclosure with either 8TB of RAID 5 storage. It also has either two 1Gbit Ethernet ports or 16TB RAID 6 storage with either four 1Gbit Ethernet or two 1Gbit Ethernet ports and one 10Gbit Ethernet port. The appliances enable cloud storage without changing existing applications.
The appliance complements TwinStrata’s software-based CloudArray, which allows businesses to seamlessly integrate business applications with cloud storage without requiring changes to applications or programming to cloud storage APIs. Solutions such as disaster recovery for Microsoft Exchange Server, Office SharePoint Server and SQL Server are prime examples. The software, which can be installed as a virtual appliance supports applications running on both physical and virtual servers. It supports both public and private cloud storage and provides secure, offsite data protection with onsite access to data.
CloudArray operates on VMware, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon EC2 and supports connectivity to Windows, Linux, Macintosh, HP-UX and VMware host computers. It interfaces with a variety of cloud storage providers including Amazon S3 and AT&T Synaptic.
The company plans to announce additional providers this year. On the application end, CloudArray presents iSCSI block data storage in the form of data volumes. On the cloud storage end, CloudArray interfaces with both private and public cloud storage APIs. No programming is required to store data to and from cloud storage.
The CloudArray SAN appliance is priced starting at $14,995.
