American Megatrends StorTrends 3200i IP-SAN Gets VMware- Certified

channelworld.in : May 18, 2009

American Megatrends (AMI) India announces the certification of its StorTrends 3200i IP-SAN 3U storage appliance, featuring cutting-edge StorTrends iTX Data Storage Software, for VMware ESX Server v.3.5

AMI says that StorTrends3200i is an affordable 3U, rack – mount storage appliance that offers support for both block and file data. It merges Ethernet –based Storage Area Networks (IP – SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) on a single storage platform. The StorTrends 3200i includes features for enterprise-level storage management such as hardware RAID, advanced snapshots, volume replication, and much more.

According to S. Shankar, Chairman of AMI India, "We are pleased to announce this key development in our support of VMware with our StorTrends iTX Data Storage Software. Adding support for the most widely-used virtualization vendor in the market to our StorTrends iTX storage software is a key stage in the maturation, development, and expansion of the iTX stack. The certification of our StorTrends 3200i for VMware ESX Server v.3.5 highlights AMI’s commitment to virtualization, which we see as a key technology within storage appliances and storage software."

StorTrends iTX Data Storage Software supports VMware ESX Server in StorTrends iTX. This means that the ability of the StorTrends 3200i to withstand potential disasters such as power outages, hardware failures, network service interruptions and the like also extends to virtual machines running on top of the StorTrends 3200i IP-SAN storage appliance as well.

Furthermore, AMI is a long-standing member of VMware’s Technology Alliance Program, an alliance of hardware and software providers whose products have passed the rigorous certification process designed by VMware to ensure compliance with its standards. Paresh Chatterjee, Chief Technology Officer of AMI, notes that "AMI’s participation in the VMware Technology Alliance Program showcases our commitment to virtualization in both our Storage Software and Hardware products."

According to Sridharan Mani, CEO & Director of AMI India, “With VMware certification, the best of the class AMI StorTrends ITX IP SAN and NAS solution can provide customers with scalable, reliable, eco-friendly, high performance and affordable cost, Server Virtualization and Storage Consolidation solutions. Our Stack is so unique that application services and storage services can be integrated and virtualized on the AMI StorTrends ITX server. This is a big boon for service providers looking for single server solution for integrated storage and application management. SMB’s and SOHO markets can now afford the enterprise class solutions at SMB prices.”

With VMware certification, StorTrends IP SAN reportedly enables the benefits of server and storage virtualization to mainstream SME organizations which was earlier limited only to datacenters.