Pogo Linux has announced the availability of the StorageDirector Z250, Z350 and Z450, the newest storage appliances in Pogo’s managed-storage product line.
These new systems launch with two major improvements over past offerings — support for Intel’s Xeon 5500 series processors, and an upgrade to the newly released NexentaStor 2.0.
The price holds firm, staying under $10,000 for 22TB (terrabytes) of managed storage and expansion possibilities to over 100TB. Building on the success of the original StorageDirector product line — marrying the hardware storage expertise of Pogo Linux to the NexentaStor ZFS-based unified storage appliance software — the StorageDirector Z continues to lead the pack as the storage solution for customers who want enterprise features at a greatly-reduced price. With the addition of NexentaStor 2.0 and Intel’s Xeon 5500 series processors, the StorageDirector offers increased performance and supports new features such as active/active high-availability clustering.
With the inclusion of the ZFS-based NexentaStor 2.0 into the latest StorageDirector products, customers now have access to a rare feature in a commodity storage solution — true active/active failover between system pairs. This feature, until now only available in solutions which cost at least 5x as much, provides a level of uptime and reliablity previously unavailable at this price point. NexentaStor 2.0 also includes many feature updates, useability upgrades, and increased support for iSCSI management and Windows backups.
“With the increased performance the new Intel platform provides, and the update to NexentaStor 2.0, the StorageDirector Z series is the perfect option for customers looking to free themselves from expensive proprietary storage solutions,”
said Erik Logan, President of Pogo Linux.
“With features like active/active failover, faster performance and improved support options, the StorageDirector provides the features customers want at a price they are very comfortable with.”
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