DCC debuts Huawei Symantec’s latest offering for SME’s – the S5000T-Series Disk Storage Systems
Distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) has introduced Huawei Symantec’s latest offering, the Oceanspace S5000T-Series, a family of disk storage systems tailored for medium-sized enterprises.
For data centre managers, the S5000T-Series systems stand-out by maximising storage consolidation with the highest capacity per controller; by automating performance tuning with migration of data to the optimum storage tier; and by reducing energy usage with aggressive power management. For channel partners looking to fill the void left by the consolidation of traditional storage vendors, the high-value T-Series storage is their new wingman.
“High -availability, high-performance and a broad suite of software, which a few years ago were found only in high-end disk arrays, are expected today in mid-range systems,” says Jane Li, General Manager of North America, Huawei Symantec. “Storage partners will find the feature-rich T-Series is well-suited for data centre environments.”
“The T-Series offers superb performance with the kind of power, speed and agility currently unequalled in today’s market – perfect for the SME environment,” says Raul Del Fabbro, Storage Division Manager at DCC. “Our resellers now have additional choice with this offering, providing their end user customers with a high-end storage solution at an SME price point.”
Oceanspace T-Series: Powerful, Flexible, and Easy T-Series is a family of SAN systems pre-packaged with the power, speed and agility needed in core data centre storage applications including storage consolidation and remote replication for disaster recovery.
Powerful-A fully redundant T-Series system can support well over 1,000 disk drives for massive storage consolidation. T-Series systems support connectivity to the fastest SANs on the planet: 8Gb Fibre Channel and 10Gb iSCSI. Smart Cache technology inside each T-Series system tunes the performance of the system by automatically migrating data to the SAS/SATA HDD, FC HDD, or SSD tier that will provide the optimum balance of performance and cost.
Flexible- Modular T-Series hardware allows scalability one building block at a time. Admin defined energy saving policies control auto disk sleep, fan speed tuning and even CPU speed tuning. In addition, a broad suite of software gives data centre administrators the agility to deploy a variety of storage applications, such as remote replication for disaster recovery, with a single license.
Easy -GUI based integrate storage management software suite with rich feature sets.
The T-Series family of storage systems includes four models:
Oceanspace S5500T – Up to 288 SSDs / SAS, or SATA HDDs Oceanspace S5600T – Up to 1,576 SSDs / SAS, SATA or FC HDDs Oceanspace S5800T – Up to 1,152 SSDs / SAS, SATA or FC HDDs Oceanspace S6800T-Up to 1,440 SSDs / SAS, SATA or FC HDDs
Drive Control Corporation
Raul Del Fabbro
Storage Division Manager
Tel: 011-2018927
Email: rauld@drivecon.net
Evolution PR
Sarah van Staden
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Email: sarah@evolutionpr.co.za
