IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has beefed up its NAS products with more capacity and processing power and plans to spend $100 million on its network storage group over the next year (see IBM Enhances NAS Wares).
In addition, Big Blue has taken the wraps off a midrange storage server, the FAStT 700, concluding a 15-month reseller agreement with Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE: CPQ).
The move comes a week after Compaq marked the termination of its agreement to resell IBMs high-end Shark storage array with the introduction of its own product into this sector.
The FAStT 700 provides Fibre Channel connectivity that supports data transfer rates of up to 2 Gbit/s, remote copy and flashcopy features, and up to 120,000 cached input/output (I/O) operations per second, according to IBM. These measurements are more than double the performance of the CLARiiON 4700 from EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC), IBM claims.
The upgraded NAS products include:
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