Like the previous lines of Maxtor appliances, the NAS 4000 will provide network status reporting, automatic E-mail alerts about problems, and RAID 1 mirroring for data protection. Dataquest analyst Pushan Rinnen says Maxtor competes with Dell and Quantum for the small and midsize business market and workgroups within large companies. Barry Davis, manager of the Federal Aviation Administration's Air Traffic Air Space laboratory in Washington, is installing NAS 4000 appliances to store and move 500 Gbytes of complex mapping files from around the country. Those appliances will replace a jukebox of CDs that wasn't even online. Davis expects a lot of growth and hopes to install appliances locally around the country so that the FAA doesn't have to move these data-intensive files across the Internet.
Competition is a great thing.
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