transtec AG offers new solutions
Cost-effective alternatives for companiesTuebingen, 5 March 2003.
transtec AG, from Tuebingen, Germany, now offers brand-new products for the iSCSI market. The IT system manufacturer is co-operating with Cisco, a leading network provider, to produce these cutting-edge products. transtec’s iSCSI systems are just some of the latest products that the company is presenting in its spring catalogue.
The first especially fast and secure transtec iSCSI systems (TIS-J587A and TIS-R2400A) provide a storage area network (SAN) with fibre channel-based RAID and hard disk systems via TCP/IP connections. "Our advanced iSCSI solutions are directed at customers who want to take the first step towards centralising their storage solutions. Other than that, they can help reduce costs through more efficient use of the hardware," explains Wolfgang Bauer, manager of the storage product management unit at transtec AG.
The Tuebingen company relies on iSCSI routers for its systems that are supplied by Cisco, a company that enjoys a great reputation in the industry. The Cisco routers are then combined with transtec’s own fibre channel systems. The new transtec iSCSI products provide the customer with a complete and ready-to-operate solution that can be integrated into an existing IT infrastructure without any problems. The computers in the SAN are provided with a data capacity of up to 2 TB.
"User investment costs are reduced substantially with these new systems. Besides that, the capacity being used can also be optimised, since data space can be assigned more flexibly," says Bauer. The new iSCSI standard was also recently adopted by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as an official open standard. The new transtec iSCSI products:
TIS-R2400A: Price € 20,890 (excluding VAT)
transtec iSCSI system with Cisco 5420 storage router and a transtec 5000 SCSI/IDE RAID, 19" rackmount, RAID with 12x 200 GB E-IDE disks, 2.4 TB total capacity, 2 Gbit FC (LC) interface, RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3 and 5, 1 RAID set, with 128 MB cache, capacity may not exceed 2 TB per RAID set. iSCSI driver for Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Linux RedHat, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX.
TIS-J587A: Price € 16,120 (excluding VAT)
transtec iSCSI system with Cisco 5420 storage router and a transtec 3000 FC JBOD with 4 hard disk slots, each 146 GB, 15,000 rpm, hot-swappable fan and power supply unit, iSCSI driver for Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Linux RedHat, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX.
In addition to its new iSCSI solutions, transtec is also bringing its transtec 8000 server onto the market. This server has been specially developed for high-end enterprise applications and offers a brilliant performance rate for business intelligence applications, resource planning in companies, high-performance calculations and securely encrypted transactions. Some typical applications include online transaction processing, data analyses, as well as simulations and renderings requiring large amounts of data. Servers and processors also have advanced reliability features. transtec 8000 Server: Price on demand
Intel Itanium 2 1 GHz, 3 MB level 3 cache (max. 4 processors), Intel E8870 chip set, 1 GB ECC DDRAM-SDRAM (4 DIMMs, max. 32 GB), Seagate 36 GB Ultra320 SCSI hot-swap, 2 free hot-swap disk slots, slimline ATAPI DVD-ROM, LS240 drive, 3 64-bit 133 MHz hot-plug PCI-X, 5 64-bit 100 MHz hot-plug PCI-X slots, 1 serial, 4 USB and 2 PS/2 interfaces, onboard 10/100/1000BASE-T (Intel 82540EM, RJ45), Cherry keyboard, transtec wheel mouse, 4 U rackmount, redundant 1200 watt power supply unit, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 64-bit or SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 64-bit preinstalled and on CD-ROM.
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