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iQstor DEBUTS J1200 SATA EXPANSION ENCLOSURE

iQstor Networks Inc, a developer of intelligent, integrated storage area network (SAN) solutions, announced the release of their J1200 SATA expansion enclosure, an affordable new SATA JBOD targeted to serve the needs of costconscious customers. Created to provide SATA expansion capability to the company's iQ1000 Storage System, the J1200 delivers a modular approach to tiered storage requirements allowing administrators to optimize their applications that require storage with varying performance, availability and cost characteristics.

Developed as an affordable, easy-to-implement, easy-to-use and manage expansion enclosure, the J1200 delivers a scalable, reliable and compatible solution for small-to-midsize business, allowing SMBs and SMEs to deploy a highly affordable 2Gb JBOD to support business initiatives. As a modular component, the J1200 enables storage administrators to quickly and costeffectively optimize storage solutions for diverse fixed content applications in digital media and imaging to near-line and archiving applications for financial, legal, security and educational institutions.

"The J1200 excels in tiered applications, delivering a solution for a wide range of applications -- from virtual tape, snapshot, mirroring and archival use, to fixed content, reference material, digital media, security or in electronic vaulting -- at an extremely cost-effective price," Jason Lo, president of iQstor Networks, said. "And as companies look to extend their existing infrastructures to gain additional benefits from affordable tiered storage and fixed content applications, they'll find that the J1200 is a costeffective way to create SATA-based solutions for secondary storage applications, enabling an affordable, resilient solution for storage of operational data such as e-mail, departmental file data, reference information, certain CRM/ERP data and multimedia content."

Each J1200 scales to 6TB per enclosure (using 15 400GB SATA drives), allowing the creation of extremely large SAN systems as needs arise. With fully redundant, hot swappable components for disk drives, power supplies, cooling modules and JBOD controllers, the J1200 ensures high availability. With iQstor's release of the J1200, channel partners, VARs and system integrators gain access to a scalable and robust SATA solution that brings their customers a robust and effective way to implement affordable storage applications that enhance efficiencies and protect data.