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American Megatrends gets VMware certification

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CHENNAI, INDIA: American Megatrends India (AMI India), a wholly owned subsidiary of American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) USA, a provider in storage and computing solutions worldwide, announced the certification of its StorTrends 3200i IP-SAN 3U storage appliance, featuring cutting-edge StorTrends iTX Data Storage Software, for VMware ESX Server v.3.5.

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StorTrends 3200i is a 3U, rack – mount storage appliance that offers support for both block and file data. It merges Ethernet –based Storage Area Networks (IP – SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) on a single storage platform, said a press release.

The StorTrends 3200i includes features for enterprise-level storage management such as hardware RAID, advanced snapshots, volume replication, and much more.

S. Shankar, chairman of AMI India,said "We are pleased to announce this key development in our support of VMware with our StorTrends iTX Data Storage Software. Adding support for the most widely-used virtualization vendor in the market to our StorTrends iTX storage software is a key stage in the maturation, development, and expansion of the iTX stack.

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He added that the certification of their StorTrends 3200i for VMware ESX Server v.3.5 highlights AMI’s commitment to virtualization, which they see as a key technology within storage appliances and storage software.

StorTrends iTX Data Storage Software supports Active / Active High Availability configurations, and support for this configuration is also extended through VMware ESX Server in StorTrends iTX.

This means that the ability of the StorTrends 3200i to withstand potential disasters such as power outages, hardware failures, network service interruptions and the like also extends to virtual machines running on top of the StorTrends 3200i IP-SAN storage appliance as well, said the release.

With VMware certification, StorTrends IP SAN enables the benefits of server and storage virtualization to mainstream SME organizations which was earlier limited only to data centers, it added.

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