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DYNAMIC NETWORK FACTORY ANNOUNCE 2400-SERIES NAS SERVERS PACKING OVER 9TB IN ONE CHASSIS
High Capacity NAS unit Designed for Nearline and Mass Storage Implementations
Hayward, CA, September 1, 2004 -- Dynamic Network Factory, a leading developer of cost-effective, high-performance storage solutions, announced the FlexStor-NAS and StorBank 2400 NAS systems today, offering specialized performance for Windows and Linux sharing environments. The 2400-series holds 24 RAID Certified(SM) Serial ATA hard drives in a compact 5U chassis, with internal storage capacities up to 9.6TB.
Dynamic Network Factory’s (DNF) FlexStor-NAS branded products feature Windows Storage Server 2003 and offer complete integration into Microsoft environments, including Active Directory. The StorBank line brings native Linux NFS support to the table, allowing seamless, high-performance file sharing in Linux and Windows environments. The FlexStor-NAS and StorBank 2400 Xeon Serial ATA RAID NAS products expand the limits of the integrated NAS market, offering up to 9.6TB of internal storage and the ability to handle over 50TB of data with additional SCSI-attached subsystems. The unit supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD, offering the maximum in flexibility and data redundancy. With the built-in CD-ROM and floppy disk drives, adding additional software components is convenient. Web-based management and configuration allows administrators to remotely set up and maintain the NAS product from any computer with network access.
Both the FlexStor-NAS and StorBank product lines feature snapshot technology to shorten backup windows, by creating images of the changes over a specified interval. This offers dramatic space savings over backup solutions that force users to duplicate all of a drive’s data to capture incremental changes.
With the DNF RAID Certification Program, all of the drives used in DNF products have been tested to ensure that they work in tandem to provide consistent performance across the array, while weeding out marginal units unfit for use in RAID environments.
“These new NAS appliances pack 9.6TB of storage in one chassis, eliminating the need for a separate NAS engine to deploy large amounts of storage. These two products are unique in the marketplace, providing a cost-effective, reliable NAS solution at an attractive price point,” said Mo Tahmasebi, President of Dynamic Network Factory.
The FlexStor-NAS 2400 and StorBank 2400 Xeon Serial ATA RAID NAS products are available immediately, directly through Dynamic Network Factory, and reseller channels.
About Dynamic Network Factory and Stonefly, Inc. Founded in 1989, Dynamic Network Factory, Inc. (DNF) is a privately held company based in the Silicon Valley (Hayward, Ca.). DNF carries a variety of products, ranging from network attached storage, direct attached storage solutions and IP SAN solutions, to assist companies in meeting their mission-critical storage needs with cost-effective, high performance storage equipment. DNF started as a U.S. subsidiary of the publicly-traded Japanese IT conglomerate, CSK Electronics, in 1989. In 1998, the company refined its strategy and began to focus the hardware group on storage solutions. Within a year, DNF’s rapid growth resulted in its emergence as an independent, privately-held spin-off. In 2006, DNF completed its acquisition of StoneFly Networks, an iSCSI storage pioneer and developer of complete, turnkey IP SAN solutions. Now a wholly owned subsidiary of DNF Corporation, StoneFly, Inc. (www.StoneFly.com) is headquartered in San Diego.
Since its inception, DNF has designed custom solutions for organizations of all sizes and built products for many major computer manufacturers. DNF has thousands of customers ranging from consumers and small-to-medium businesses, to government agencies, universities, hospitals, financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies. Key customers include UC Berkeley, MIT, the Federal Aviation Administration, FBI, Lockheed Martin, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo, Fujitsu, Honda Corporation of America, SBC, BAE Systems, and General Dynamics. For more information, visit www.DNFCorp.com
StoneFly, Inc., headquartered in San Diego, was founded in April 2000 to deliver upon the vision of simple and affordable storage optimization and disaster recovery protection through IP SAN solutions. StoneFly is a subsidiary of DNF, Inc. For more information on StoneFly, please visit www.StoneFly.com or www.iSCSI.com.
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StoneFly, StoneFly Backup Advantage, StoneFly ValueSAN and StoneFly OptiSAN are trademarks or registered trademarks and the property of StoneFly, Inc. All other company and product names contained herein are property of their respective owners. For more information, visit www.DNFCorp.com.
