In that vein, Fujitsu will announce NAS connectivity for its Eternus storage systems. (See Fujitsu Adds New Eternus.) Launched last year, the Eternus 4000 and 8000 devices were initially sold as SAN appliances, though the vendor is now adding NAS to the mix. The new NAS gateway fits into the Eternus rack. "This will enable both file and block-level data access so that customers can consolidate all kinds of data onto the Eternus systems," says Nori Kondo, Fujitsu's vice president of product marketing.
Fujitsu's NAS gateway is an OEM'd version of NetApp's V-Series product. Available now, it costs around $160,000. (See NetApp Releases Platforms.) Fujitsu is not the first vendor to go down this road -- last year IBM began selling NetApps V3000 gateways as the IBM System Storage N5000 Series Gateway. (See IBM Swings NetApp Gateway, IBM Adds NetApp, and NetApp Promotes SATA.)
In other NAS news, Verari will unveil the latest version of its VB5150 storage system this week, as it looks to tap into growing demand for low-cost storage drives. (See LSI Lassos SiliconStor, SATA-IO Delivers Features, and Emulex Locks Onto SAS.) The vendor will unveil its VB1056S disk blade, which contains two more SATA drives than it 10-drive predecessor, the VM1055S.
Verari has also enhanced the storage controller used to push data around the system, which it claims can now deliver up to 38 percent higher throughput. (See Verari Delivers Blade Clusters and Verari Intros VB5150.) Pricing for the VB1056S, which will be available within the next 60 days, starts at $1 per Gbyte, according to Eric Seidman, Verari's storage systems manager.
SMB Storage
Intel will take the wraps off storage/server combo designed specifically for SMBs today. The rack-mounted device, which goes by the catchy title of SSR212MC2 (kudos to the Intel marketing team on that one) offers up to two Xeon processors. "We expect most of our partners and OEMs will rebrand it with their own name," says Scott Peiffer, director of Intel's storage solutions marketing. (Thankfullly, we say.)
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