Netgear’s 4-Bay Desktop Model Brings Double the NAS Performance, iSCSI Support and Support for Time Machine in Mac OS X

Netgear, a worldwide provider of technologically innovative, branded networking solutions, has announced the addition of several new 4-bay storage appliances to its award-winning family of ReadyNAS® products for Small- to Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs). The ReadyNAS NVX, which is designed for home offices, workgroups and small businesses, offers double the performance of previous NV+ units, support for file services (NAS) and application services (iSCSI SAN) for Windows®, UNIX®/Linux and Mac systems, including support for Time Machine® in Mac OS X v 10.5® Leopard. It enables users to securely store, share and protect business-critical data across a LAN or WAN, guard against disk failures, and grow capacity as needed. As with all ReadyNAS systems, the new NVX is extremely fast, easy-to-use and deploy, and affordable – ideal for resellers eager to solve customer needs for centralized storage and disaster recovery.

“Netgear is fully committed to providing the best possible networked storage solutions to the SMB market – offering a range of appliances that address different capacity requirements and thrifty IT budgets,” said Paul Tien, vice president and general manager of Netgear’s Networked Storage Business Unit.

He added, “We’re extremely pleased to add iSCSI support to this new NVX platform so we can now provide a unified NAS+iSCSI storage option in a very compact desktop form factor at such an affordable price point to our hugely successful ReadyNAS line. Our ReadyNAS products have been praised by channel partners and end users alike for high performance, reliability, scalability, ease-of-use and, perhaps most importantly, overall value.”

ReadyNAS NVX 4-Bay Desktop Storage

Store: The ReadyNAS NVX – supporting both NAS and iSCSI – is an ideal desktop storage system for home offices, workgroups and small businesses. This entry-level SMB product enables end users to centralize data from local systems into a single device and solve problems around capacity growth, remote access, backup and disaster recovery all without IT expertise. The ReadyNAS NVX simultaneously handles file sharing for Windows®, UNIX®/Linux and Mac® systems and also stores data for server applications such as email, databases and virtualization.

Share: As a new feature, the ReadyNAS RAIDiator™ operating system works with Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard. Netgear’s ReadyNAS devices continue to support the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP), enabling native Mac files to be used without restrictions or limitations; Apple’s Bonjour® software technology for auto-discovery of the device over a user’s LAN; and dashboard widgets for status monitoring. Now Mac users can leverage Time Machine to back up multiple Macs to a single location and can recover from disasters without expert assistance.

Protect: As with all ReadyNAS products, the NVX includes multiple layers of protection for data including drive fault tolerance (RAID), local USB backups, online backups (snapshots), and secure offsite replication to other ReadyNAS systems. And the embedded ReadyNAS Vault™ option lets users automatically archive to an Internet datacenter and recover from any web browser.