Iomega on Thursday announced a new high-end network attached storage (NAS) appliance for small and mid-sized businesses (SMB). The StorCenter px12-450r NAS is touted as one of the first to incorporate an Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2 (Ivy Bridge) processor for increased performance with reduced power consumption; most recent models of NAS make use of the Intel Atom processor.
"Designed with the latest Intel processing architecture at its core, Iomega is first to market with the highest performance at the best value available in its class. Built with scalable server class storage," says Mike Nikzad, chief operating officer of Iomega, in a prepared statement. "The StorCenter px12-450r is also designed to support today's cloud and virtualization storage demands while having enough available headroom to meet the future storage and application growth opportunities."
The px12-450r will also include a new layer of security in the form of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise. Expected to be available in the third quarter of this year, the anti-malware software will perform enterprise-class threat scanning to proactively identify security threats. According to Iomega, the px12-450r is one of the first SMB NASes to support McAfee VirusScan Enterprise natively on hardware.
Iomega says it will add the McAfee VirusScan Enterprise to its other px-Series NAS products, though existing customers will not be able to load the software onto their appliances. Finally, the px12-450r will also be able to run Linux applications created with Iomega's LifeLine Software Development Kit (SDK).
The StorCenter px12-450r NAS is available in diskless and partially populated configurations, and will be sold at a suggested retail price starting at $5,499.99.
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