Primary storage for demanding applications

Simple to integrate virtualised storage

Creating data is at the heart of all our businesses today, whether a small company or large enterprise it is data which fuels our growth, this dependency is the catalyst for our ever increasing need for performance, scalability and resilience. Unfortunately with our budgets constrained our need to carefully balance our investments often leads to a compromise between what we need today and what will serve us well as we grow.

The PR4 is a zero compromise solution which encompasses all the values of Enterprise class storage but with a realistic price tag. Its leading performance and feature set coupled with no hidden licence costs provides an ideal solution to our everyday challenges whilst Its future proof scalability delivers market leading return on investment and one less headache to face in the future.

Central toThe PR4 is a highly evolved and intelligent storage core which efficiently manages the storage resources without the need for ongoing administration. The design focus was not just to implement leading performance and features, but to deliver them in a simple to use package ensuring that even the most advanced storage manipulation is nothing more than a couple of mouse clicks and requires no advanced knowledge or training, allowing you to focus on creating the data so essential to your business and The PR4 focuses on keeping it safe and available.

Based on the latest 6Gb SAS topology the PR4 offers ultimate performance and allows for the use of Enterprise level 15000 RPM and high capacity 7200 RPM SATA drives, allowing the solution to be truly configurable to your individual application.

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Disk based backup and recovery

      1U and 4U - 4TB to 48TB

      Automated clone of backup to
      physical tape

.     Replication and DR ready.

      Efficient Compression.

      Advanced Encryption.

      Greener storage, less power,
      increased reliability

Now including enhanced Virtual Tape Library

increased backup and recovery performance, decreased cost and ease of administration

“By streamlining our enterprise class backup VTL based solutions we are the first to market an affordable VTL designed for the smaller and medium size business”

The last five years have seen a disk based backup technology known as Virtual Tape Library (VTL) become adopted as the norm within the larger organisations. Although VTL deals with backup and recovery constraints common to all IT infrastructures, its high cost and wide ranging functionality is clearly focused at the enterprise level company.

Whilst the smaller and medium sized business may not have the same complex infrastructures, we all face the same obstacles when it comes to protecting our information and data. The traditional tape solution still provides an efficient method of long-term protection, but today with the need to backup more and more data in less time and still provide for a realistic recovery, disk based solutions form the core of the modern backup and recovery appliance.

By streamlining our enterprise class VTL solutions we are the first to market an affordable VTL designed for the smaller and medium size business. Complex configurations and emulations have been replaced with a simple one-click solution needing no specialised IT skills or administration. Providing the same benefits found at the highest of levels, our VTL options deliver the performance, reliability and availability of disk based solutions while enabling the use of existing backup software and procedures.

1U capacity - 4TB - 8TB

4U capacity - 4TB - 48TB in a
single 4U enclosure with an
upgrade path to over 500TB

Simple iSCSI connectivity with the
option of dual 10Gb

SAS driven drive topology provides maximum performance with large scalability

Drive spin-down technology
increases reliability of long term
storage and reduces power

High capacity network storage

affordable large capacity iSCSI storage

Although predicted, no one really believed the sheer amounts of data we would be producing today, not so long ago we would have considered a 1GB RAID solution somewhat of an overkill but an investment to counter the growing need for more and more storage. Today we would carry 1GB around in our pockets.

We have all asked ourselves “when will it stop”, but digital information has become such a significant asset and necessity to our businesses I suspect that the day our data stops growing is probably the day our business stops growing. We may not be able to tell you where will it stop, but we can tell you where it can be safely stored, on a high capacity AR4 archive solution.

Many storage solution offer a degree of scalability, some large, some more for the sake of marketing and offering little real-life growth. The AR4-4000 offers unprecedented scalability in stages that suit you.

Whilst a single 4U enclosure is capable of housing 4TB to 48TB providing enough expansion for many businesses, its inbuilt virtualisation module is capable of controlling an additional ten 24 bay upgrade modules, providing a growth path up to over 500TBs in affordable stages.

True ‘SRP’ solution ensuring
compatibility with leading O/S Infiniband Support.

Maximum flexibility and
scalability with SAS drive
expansion.

Support for simultaneous use
of 15,000 RPM Enterprise
level SAS and 7200 RPM High
Capacity SAS.

...are you considering fibre storage?

Ultra-high performance for data intensive
environments

now with 80Gb connectivity

...a leading true InfiniBand storage solution. Whilst some storage vendors have utilised InfiniBand in an elementary way for internal benefit, ID7 have introduced it where it belongs, connecting storage directly to the InfiniBand network using the emerged standard SRP and delivering real performance and QoS benefits”

InfiniBand has established market leadership as the server interconnect of choice for performance business computing and high performance technical computing, but until recently the connection of storage within such configurations has been based upon traditional structures such as Fibre and NAS, which lags behind InfiniBand's tremendous performance and also introduces less efficient, more complex and costlyconfigurations.

Whether you are looking for a storage solution to integrate with an existing or new InfiniBand network or simply looking for maximum storage performance, ID7’s IB4 provides a scalable and affordable solution.

Looking for an ultra high performance storage solution?

Today there are many choices when looking for a high performance storage solution, 8Gb Fibre, 10Gb iSCSI and emerging FCoE

InfiniBand’s ultra high performance and cost effective design allows the IB4 to be more aggressively priced than many competing fibre products and yet provide 10 times the bandwidth.

Simple to integrate whether directly connected to a single server or part of a larger SAN, the IB4 offers a true alternative to fibre based architectures.

Product brochure IB4

Product brochure IB4s

Traditional storage solutions cannot attach to the Infiniband network directly and as shown in the diagram below requires gateways or intermediate servers to present the storage. As well as impacting performance and reliability this greatli increases complexity and cost.