iQstor offers flexible, comprehensive storage solutions designed to balance your data growth and budget requirements. As the need for storage increases, storage administrators continue to lose ground with each new terabyte added to the management agenda. Some companies may decide to let the storage "manage itself," but this inaction will have disastr

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Enterprise Level Features – High Performance – Affordable Price
The iQ2280 storage system from iQstor delivers the high performance and reliability required by today’s demanding applications, at an affordable price. iQstor’s iQ2280 Storage System is a self-contained storage system that brings an intelligent, yet affordable solution to small and mid-sized companies. Combining proven enterprise-level features with cost-effective Serial ATA (SATA II) disk drives, the iQ2280 delivers efficient storage growth, scalability, data protection and storage automation – at a price point that’s dramatically less than comparable Fibre Channel solutions.

Availability and Reliability
The iQ2280 is a full-featured storage system, providing maximum flexibility, scalability and cost-effectiveness for business, large and small. With all key internal components being hot-swappable and redundant, the iQ2280 ensures data protection and delivery to keep business-critical applications running smoothly. All in all, iQstor’s iQ2280 delivers a robust and economical SATA solution with the availability, manageability, data integrity and enterprise-level functionality that, until now, have only been available to enterprise users.

Configurations
Each iQ2280 supports up to fifteen SATA disk drives providing 15TB of storage capacity (with 1TB drives). Integrated RAID levels 0, 1, 1+0, 3, 5, 50, and 6 provide data protection and help keep business critical applications running. Additionally, as storage management requirements evolve, administrators have the option of enabling enhanced storage services such as virtualization, snapshots, mirroring, storage provisioning, remote replication and automated capacity growth.

Investment Protection
The iQ2280 delivers investment protection, cost-effectiveness and reliability for businesses that need a robust Fibre Channel storage solution with the availability, reliability, manageability, data integrity and enterprise-level functionality that is becoming standard requirement in a wide range of environments today, at exceptional value.

Enhanced Management through Storage Services Features
The iQ2280 enables storage administrators to quickly and cost-effectively optimize storage solutions for diverse fixed content applications in digital media and imaging to near-line and archiving applications for financial, legal and educational institutions. The optional Storage Management Services significantly enhance the productivity of storage administrators in a consolidated storage environment. By virtualzing storage pools, the iQ2280 significantly decreases the cost of storage hardware through efficient storage allocation and increased disk utilization. Storage management services such as snapshot and remote replication enable server-less backups, disaster recovery, business continuity, data mining and application testing. In addition, the capacity management feature provides on-line virtual capacity expansion, solving a time and labor intensive administrator issue.

iQ2280 Offers Higher Performance and Lower Cost
iQstor’s iQ2280 offers low initial acquisition cost based on a pay-as you-grow model. It is well suited for applications that require high performance and continuous availability, as well as business critical applications with 24/7 operation for uninterrupted business continuity.

ous implications on data integrity and business continuity. Left unchecked, companies face a serious business risk of carrying large amounts of unmanaged data.

Storage Systems for SMB and SME

The SMB and SME market is insufficiently addressed by existing storage solutions. Enterprise-level systems offer more capability than is necessary and have high initial acquisition costs. iQstor storage solutions are ideal for Storage Administrators at small and mid-sized businesses looking for storage solutions that offer:

• Enterprise class high availability features with no single point of failure
• SAN ready connectivity using Fibre Channel or iSCSI interface
• Server independent SRM software, including storage virtualization, snapshot, volume copy, capacity management, storage provisioning and remote replication
• Storage capacity from 2TB to over 240TB

iQstor storage solutions consist of hardware building blocks together with software management tools. These building blocks are tightly integrated to provide plug and play functionality as well as management and diagnostic feature sets offering storage administrators and IT managers:

• Storage consolidation through storage virtualization
• Business continuity through remote replication
• Disaster recovery through instantaneous "point-in-time" snapshots
• Reduced total cost of Ownership (TCO) through capacity management and automated storage provisioning