Breeze MX4 and 10G, the two new iSCSI systems announced today by Nimbus Data Systems, Inc. offer combined block and file access.
Both systems can mount up to 12 SAS (serial attached SCSI) or SATA drives in a fully redundant 2U enclosure. Adding up to six expansion modules each system can scale to 55TB with non disruptive updates.
The Breeze MX4 has front-end and back-end Gigabit ethernet connectivity, while the Breeze 10G has one 10G storage port and 48 1GbE host connections versus the 20 host ports of its sibling.
To speed up performance both systems mount an IP coprocessor and a large cache, 2GB for the MX4, 4GB for the 10G.
The Nimbus HALO V3.0 software gives the two systems a range of data protection tools to perform snapshots, snapclone with rollback, and asynchronous replication, for example.
Price starts at less than $20,000 for a Breeze MX4 and less than $35,000 for a Breeze 10G.
Posted by Mario Apicella on March 22, 2006 07:50 AM
