Monthly Archive for October, 2008

New Affordable SAN and NAS System for Small- and Mid-Sized Enterprises Leverages Fujitsu ETERNUS Storage and Microsoft WUDSS

Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation announced the availability of the UDS 1000, an easy-to-install NAS (network-attached storage) appliance that delivers as much as 24 TB of storage and leverages Microsoft’s WUDSS (Windows Unified Data Storage Server) and Management Console.
News Highlights

• The UDS 1000 is ideally suited for small- to mid-sized enterprises currently based on Windows and requiring easy-to-manage, unified storage but without the IT budget or resources to implement a SAN (storage-area network).
• Powered by the enterprise-class Fujitsu ETERNUS(R) storage technology, the UDS 1000 is the second of the Fujitsu UDS product line, which includes the UDS 2000; the appliances allow both NAS file-level and iSCSI block-level data to be transferred over Ethernet networks using an interface that will be familiar to anyone accustomed to managing a Microsoft(R) Windows(R) environment and using standard protocols, such as SMB/CIFS, NFS and iSCSI.

Dave Egan, senior vice president, storage, at Fujitsu Computer Systems:

The UDS 1000 offers VARs and SMBs a wider range of choices for implementing robust, high-performance storage systems that are easy to install and maintain while providing an alternative to complex SAN systems

Source: Marketwatch.com (07-10-2008)