TAIPEI, Taiwan, January 29th, 2013-Infortrend® (Public TPE: 2495) today announced the launch of 14 new EonStor DS G7i storage models featuring advanced new hardware, improved virtualization features and up to a 4x increase in performance. These systems are aimed at SMEs looking to meet the demands of today's IT environments.

Addressing the growing challenges found in today's datacenters, the new EonStor DS G7i models' new hardware design includes a new dual-core processor. Compared to the previous model's single-core processor, this change has led to a dramatic 75-80% improvement in performance. In addition, Infortrend's EonStor DS G7i is VAAI (vStorage API for Array Integration) ready, supporting features such as hardware-assisted locking*, block zeroing* and full copy* that facilitate even higher performance by offloading CPU cycles allowing for a more efficient usage of network resources.

Built to meet today's IT challenges, the powerful new EonStor DS G7i provides mid-range performance at affordable cost, ideal for performance-demanding applications such as HPC, databases, virtualization, media editing, broadcasting and cloud datacenters. The EonStor DS G7i's powerful features enable SMEs to efficiently meet their ever-increasing data storage demands while staying within an affordable budget.

Thomas Kao, director of product planning at Infortrend, stated "In the current IT landscape, the demands for higher performance and more features are ever increasing for companies looking to reach their full potential." He added: "Infortrend's new EonStor DS G7i models, with their advanced hardware and virtualization features represent the best choice for SMEs looking to both meet their present IT demands and to prepare for future ones as well."

There are 14 new EonStor DS G7i models available with the following features:

With dual-redundant controller configuration:

S16F-R2852: 8Gb Fibre Channel and 1 GbE iSCSI host interface, 3U/16-bay form factor,
S24F-R2851: 8Gb Fibre Channel host interface, 4U/24-bay form factor.
S16F-R2851: 8Gb Fibre Channel host interface, 3U/16-bay form factor.
S12F-R2851: 8Gb Fibre Channel host interface, 2U/12-bay form factor.
S16E-R2251: 10 GbE iSCSI host interface, 3U/16-bay form factor.
S12E-R2251: 10 GbE iSCSI host interface, 2U/12-bay form factor.
S16E-R2152: 1 GbE iSCSI host interface, 3U/16-bay form factor.

With single controller configuration:

S16F-G2852: 8Gb Fibre Channel and 1 GbE iSCSI host interface, 3U/16-bay form factor.
S24F-G2851: 8Gb Fibre Channel host interface, 4U/24-bay form factor.
S16F-G2851: 8Gb Fibre Channel host interface, 3U/16-bay form factor.
S12F-G2851: 8Gb Fibre Channel host interface, 2U/12-bay form factor.
S16E-G2251: 10 GbE iSCSI host interface, 3U/16-bay form factor.
S12E-G2251: 10 GbE iSCSI host interface, 2U/12-bay form factor.
S16E-G2152: 1 GbE iSCSI host interface, 3U/16-bay form factor.

* Definitions:

  • Hardware-assisted Locking: Provides alternative means to protecting the VMFS cluster file system's meta data
  • Block Zeroing: Enables storage arrays to zero out large numbers of blocks to enhance the deployment of large-scale VMs
  • Full Copy: Allows storage arrays to make full copies of data within the array without the VMware vSphere host reading & writing the data.

For more information about Infortrend's solutions, please visit www.infortrend.com.

About Infortrend

Founded in 1993, Infortrend Corporation (Public TPE: 2495) is a leading provider of high performance networked storage solutions focusing on quality, reliability, choice and value. Fueled by a depth of technological expertise and system level knowledge, Infortrend storage solutions have been widely deployed on a variety of demanding applications by multiple users across commercial and industrial markets. Its core brands include the ESVA, EonStor DS, EonStor and EonNAS product families. For more information, please visit www.infortrend.com.

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