Designed to streamline installation, the preconfigured system can be installed in less than 10 minutes. The system allows file sharing in heterogeneous environments with NFS and CIFS support. Browser-based management allows administrators to easily manage and monitor storage. A mirrored bootdisk provides data protection by ensuring the system's storage won't be brought down in the event of a bootdisk failure. N8200 Filer is backed by Sun's three-year, second day onsite warranty.
Support is available for an additional charge.
Sun StorEdge N8000 filer models are in development and planned for release this year. Until now however, most NAS offerings have failed to fully meet the needs of the exploding Net economy. Sun's reputation as a leading provider of solutions for the dot-com environment, combined with the scalability the company plans to introduce into their NAS product line in the coming year should be well received by the market. The easy to implement Sun StorEdge N8000 filer product family is ideal for dot-com companies, service providers and workgroups with rapidly expanding storage environments that require high performance, high availability and seamless scalability. N8600 filer, which will scale as high as 10 TB, well beyond the present scalability of the Network Appliance line of filer products.