Taneja Group Validates StorTrends Disaster Recovery Capabilities

NORCROSS, Ga., Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent findings from storage industry analysts at the Taneja Group suggest that StorTrends from American Megatrends, Inc. (AMI) offers one of the best value disaster recovery solutions for the midmarket today.  

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These findings come on the heels of Taneja's recent technology validation of AMI's StorTrends 3400i Dual Controller iSCSI SAN.  The validation was conducted by Sr. Taneja Storage Analyst Jeff Boles – a storage industry veteran with over 20 years of relevant data center experience. 

Mr. Boles has summarized the results of the validation in a Special Report now available on the StorTrends and Taneja websites.  In the document, Mr. Boles highlights: 

• The StorTrends 3400i's rich suite of replication features, most notably HA mirroring of volumes across systems or controllers and both synchronous and asynchronous replication
• StorTrends unique Snapshot-Assisted Replication (SAR) feature that uses a point-in-time snapshot to identify a replication point – only data from point is replicated
• StorTrends WAN optimization through Wide Area Data Services (WDS) – a capability that reduces transmit data through de-duplication and compression for fast and encrypted transport
• The intuitive, easy-to-use StorTrends ManageTrends software GUI    

Mr. Boles notes that "we are hard pressed to identify any other storage system with similar levels of single system scalability and performance that also come fully enabled for such a broad range of HA and multi-site DR capability without additional cost, nor with similar ease of use and simplicity."

Parties interested in reviewing the DR capabilities of the StorTrends 3400i array are encouraged to attend StorTrends' upcoming DR Webinar hosted by Spiceworks on October 16, 2012.  For more information, please see the event registration page at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/922191690.

About the Taneja Group
Taneja Group's mission is to provide analysis and consulting for the storage industry, storage-related aspects of the server industry, and eDiscovery. For the storage industry Taneja Group covers all aspects including hardware and software, and from components to complete systems. The company serves various constituencies including the Technology Vendors, IT users, Venture Capitalists, Institutional Investors and the Press.  For more information, please visit www.tanejagroup.com. 

About StorTrends
Thousands of StorTrends SAN and NAS storage appliances are installed worldwide and trusted by companies and institutions in industries such as Education, Energy, Finance, State & Local Government, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Marketing, Retail, Research, Technology and many more. StorTrends meets the challenges and demands of today's business environments by offering Unified Storage, Simplified Management, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Storage Efficiency and Virtualization. The StorTrends product line incorporates enterprise features at a cost that is much less than traditional storage vendors making StorTrends a superb value as your next storage appliance.  For more information, please visit www.stortrends.com. 

About AMI
American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) creates and manufactures key hardware and software solutions for the global computer marketplace, providing the highest quality and compatibility necessary to build today's advanced computing systems. Established by Subramonian Shankar in 1985, AMI's mission is to design state-of-the-art computer solutions and develop advanced technology for the best computing solutions in the world. AMI is the world's largest BIOS firmware vendor with AMIBIOS deployed in a majority of all computers worldwide. American Megatrends has been in the data storage business since 1994, with the inception of the MegaRAID® Host Bus Array (HBA), with which AMI quickly ascended to become the world's largest third party RAID vendor. Created by the engineering team that developed the award-winning and ubiquitous MegaRAID® controller, StorTrends SAN and NAS storage appliances are installed in dozens of countries, and trusted by SMBs, local governments and institutions around the globe. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA AMI has locations in the U.S., China, Germany, India, Japan, Korea and Taiwan to better serve its customers.

For more information on AMI, its products or services, call 1-800-U-BUY-AMI or visit www.ami.com. 

SOURCE American Megatrends, Inc.