SAN JOSE, Calif. - August 24, 2011 - Drobo,
makers of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals,
today introduced a new Drobo
for business solution, the Drobo B1200i, which features technological
breakthroughs and an unprecedented combination of automation, affordability and
application awareness for the small and medium business (SMB) market.
The new 12-bay Drobo provides business customers with a unique storage
solution for VMware, Microsoft Exchange and other business applications –
offering advanced and sophisticated capabilities for customers without large
enterprise budgets or deep storage expertise. The new Drobo takes an
application-driven approach to storage, cutting cost and complexity while
automating modern data protection, capacity planning and application
performance.
The new Drobo B1200i builds on Drobo's track record of providing "Small Box,
Big Storage" by delivering a solution that is uniquely:
Automated
- Automated BeyondRAID™ technology optimizes advanced data protection
without the need for specific storage expertise or configuration
- Automated thin provisioning and reclamation delivers enterprise-class
expandability and storage utilization features in a simplified, automated
manner
- New, automated data-aware tiering solves performance tuning issues that
have traditionally taken storage administrators weeks or months to address
Application-Driven
- Adjusts in real-time to changes in application workload, without the
need for user or admin intervention and tuning
- Uniquely utilizes SSD technology in the same pool as conventional disk
drives to accelerate the most demanding operations – automatically, based on
application workload
Affordable
- Available at prices starting under $10,000 for 12 TB of SAS storage
- The most efficient and cost-effective way to utilize SSD technology –
unlike traditional tiering or SSD solutions, Drobo allows customers to
incrementally add SSD drives in the same box and in the same storage pool as
traditional media – resulting in optimal price-performance
- Designed, like all Drobos, to be the easiest to use and most automated
product in the market, resulting in reduced configuration and tuning time,
and lower operating costs
Supporting Quotes
"There are three major challenges for SMB storage and backup - data
protection, capacity planning, and application performance optimization. Drobo
represents something new for SMBs: easy, automated, hands-free, no-tuning,
application-driven storage and it solves all three primary storage challenges at
an affordable price. Application-driven storage addresses the way business works
today."
-George Crump, president and founder, Storage Switzerland
"Applications are at the core of any business and virtualization enables
organizations to deploy the infrastructure required with flexibility and
agility. Storage is the foundation for every virtual environment and Drobo's
iSCSI products are designed for simplicity and stability, to optimize virtual
machine and application performance. Drobo's data-aware tiering technology
provides enterprise capabilities to organizations that don't want to spend time
tuning, and they want storage to be smarter – simple, scalable and automated."
-Duncan Epping, author of Yellow-Bricks, a leading
virtualization blog
"Automated data-aware tiering is as revolutionary to application
performance as BeyondRAID™ was to easy and reliable data protection. SMBs are
often forced to cobble together multiple, expensive solutions, spending
disproportionate money and time on storage rather than delivering applications
that meet user needs. Drobo for business is different in that it continues to
meld even more 'big technology' with 'Drobo ease-of-use', all in one box - for
the best storage experience ever."
- Tom Buiocchi, CEO, Drobo
Useful Links
Availability
The new Drobo 12-Bay iSCSI SAN storage for business model B1200i is available
now for purchase at http://www.drobostorage.com/.