Tandberg Data Releases RDX® QuikStation™ 8
September 2016 by Marc Jacob
Tandberg Data, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sphere 3D, announced it has launched RDX® QuikStation™ 8. The QuikStation 8 is an iSCSI network-attached removable disk appliance designed to provide a flexible platform for data protection and off-site disaster recovery for physical or virtual SMB and SME environments.
To address the data center market, it is packed with features that include:
• data transfer rates of up to 3.6TB/hour;
• web-based management;
• one 10GbE and/or four 1GbE iSCSI network ports with bonding for failover and performance load balancing; and
• optional redundant power supplies.
QuikStation 8 delivers the highest RDX media capacity currently available in the market – up to eight x 3TB RDX slots for a maximum capacity of 24TB online and unlimited offline. Even with its industry leading capacity and performance, the new RDX® QuikStation™ 8 appliance consumes very little power – typically 40-80W in operation. Appliances are easy to use and highly flexible to allow for multiple configuration options to meet today’s ever-changing backup storage requirements.
RDX QuikStation 8 is available together with Tandberg Data’s easy-to-use AccuGuard™ backup software solution which provides source-based data de-duplication. This enables customers to achieve full system protection with bare metal recovery, single file restore and off-site storage for their windows servers (incl. Exchange and SQL) and workstation systems, thereby utilizing RDX media 20 times more efficiently than without data de-duplication.
RDX® QuikStation™ 8 is available now at a starting MSRP price of EUR €3.599 or U.S. $3,999, with a standard warranty of three years advanced replacement service, and the option for on-site service uplifts and additional year extensions.
RDX QuikStation 8 Configuration Options are as follows:
? 8 x RDX QuikStor drives in removable and fixed disk mode (addressable via 1 to 8 hosts)
? 2 x logical volumes with up to 4 x RDX drives (addressable via 2 hosts)
? 1 x logical volumes with up to 8 x RDX drives (addressable via 1 host)
? Emulated StorageLoader™ (8 slots and 1 LTO-3 tape drive)
? Emulated StorageLibrary™ T24 (8 slots and 2 LTO-3 tape drives)
? Emulated disk autoloader (8 slots and 1 drive)
? Combination of 1 emulated LTO StorageLoader and 4 RDX targets