The company’s scalable storage platform now includes Imation InfiniVault and Imation DataGuard appliances, as well as its existing Imation RDX removable hard disk storage and Linear Tape-Open technologies.
VARs that provide SMBs with scalable solutions for data storage and compliance were pitched a new solution earlier this month when the data storage and protection developer Imation presented its Imation InfiniVault and Imation DataGuard multi-tiered data archive and data protection appliances.
The data storage and protection developer’s new storage portfolio was created for SMBs, according to Ian Williams, the company’s vice president of global marketing and product management. “Many SMBs feel trapped between a rock and a hard place with unstructured data storage and compliance requirements that are too sophisticated for expensive, off-the-shelf storage products,” he says. “We’ve solved that problem by delivering a suite of tiered storage products right-sized for today’s data-intensive SMBs.”
The company’s scalable storage platform now includes Imation InfiniVault and Imation DataGuard multi-tiered data archive and data protection appliances as well as the company’s existing Imation RDX removable hard disk storage and Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technologies.
“The portfolio provides low-cost, compliant solutions for SMBs to better retain, retrieve and recover their data,” Imation states in a press release submitted to Channel Pro-SMB.
THE SCALABLE STORAGE PORTFOLIO
Imation’s 2011 acquisitions have broadened the company’s data security, protection, and management offerings. In the last year, Imation has acquired MXI Security, IronKey’s hardware business, and the assets of ProStor Systems, including the InfiniVault product line.
The Imation InfiniVault data-archive appliance is aimed at SMBs in need of an appliance for managing unstructured data. It uses hard drives, RDX drives, and the cloud to deliver elastic vaults of online, nearline, and offline storage. The Imation line includes four models:
- Imation InfiniVault 5
- Imation InfiniVault 35
- Imation InfiniVault 70
- Imation InfiniVault DICOM
The Imation DataGuard data-protection appliance is a disaster-tolerant backup appliance using hard drives and RDX drives to provide a multi-layer data protection target within existing backup infrastructures. It uses RDX removable hard drives to retain backups and to seed the cloud infrastructure. Models include the Imation DataGuard T5R, R4 and the R16, and will be available through authorized Imation resellers and dealers in early 2012.
RDX Hardware combines tape backup with hard disk drive storage. It is available through authorized Imation resellers and dealers. Models include the RDX A8 Storage Array and RDX USB 2.0 and 3.0 internal and external docks.
Imation’s LTO Hardware is available as a single tape drive system or multiple drive library systems in either rack mount or standalone configurations. Models include the LTO-4 and LTO-5 HH SAS tape drives, and L1200 LTO 2U and L1400 LTO 4U tape libraries. Imation’s LTO Hardware products will be available through authorized Imation resellers and dealers in November 2011.
