Regent Pacific stepped in last summer and helped Auspex complete an IPO, which raised $90 million. Earlier this year they introduced a new management team led by Mike Worhach, previously head of worldwide sales for Data General (now EMC). And the turnaround appears to be taking shape.
Auspex has just launched its NS3000 family of NAS servers that scale up from 500 gigabytes to 68 terabytes of data, the largest capacity in the industry, the company claims. Features include clustering, software mirroring, RAID mirroring, server-to-server replication, and network fail-over capabilities.
The first NS3000, on the shelves this summer, offers 500 gigabytes at $139,500 a pop and is for NT environments only. The NT/UNIX model costs an extra $25,000. The top-of-the-range 68-terabyte model wont be available until the end of the year, when pricing will also be released. A 72-Tbyte version is also in the pipe soon afterwards.
This company is a potential flyer when its new technology takes hold and the market gets better, says Harsh Kumar, storage analyst at Morgan Keegan & Company Inc.
There are still some holes though. The company has no virtualization software roadmap yet, which is the hottest area of the market right now. We need to pick some software partners for this, says Bob Iacono, VP of marketing.
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