The iSCSI connectivity option will be available in February, Eckard said. A Scalar 24 with iSCSI and one LTO tape drive starts at $17,434, while a similarly configured Scalar 100 starts at $22,680. They are available through Ingram Micro and Tech Data. The company has no direct sales business, Eckard said.
Meanwhile, Adaptec this week introduced its first iSCSI target devices. The new appliances include four Serial ATA hard drives totaling 1 Tbyte in capacity and connect to a small or midsize business's LAN as a low-cost SAN option, said Jason Blosil, product manager for iSCSI at Adaptec. "They're great for companies moving from direct-attached storage to SAN environments," he said. Price is about $10,000.
The company also introduced two new SATA PCI RAID controllers. The controllers include eight-port and 16-port models and complement the company's existing two-port and four-port models, said Robert Cox, product marketing manager. The eight-port controller, price at $590, is available now, while the $895, 16-port model is expected to be available in March, he said.
All the new Adaptec products are available through Ingram Micro, Tech Data, Synnex, Bell Microproducts and Arrow Electronics.
IBM this week introduced the TotalStorage NAS Gateway 500, its first enterprise-class NAS gateway. The Gateway 500 is based on its Power family of microprocessors, the same CPUs that go in the company's pSeries servers, said David Vaughn, product manager for the company's NAS products.
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