Netgear ReadyNAS Pro Family

NETGEAR, Inc. announced the NETGEAR ReadyNAS Pro family of business storage products.

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This product family is designed specifically for businesses seeking IT solutions without the price premium of traditional vendors. The ReadyNAS Pro family delivers performance and reliability, enabling VMware, Microsoft, hybrid cloud and disk-based backup and recovery solutions.

Smart IT departments demand reliable and simple solutions that scale to fit their budget and business needs. The new ReadyNAS Pro family includes 2-bay, 4-bay, and 6-bay desktop products that deliver the right throughput, warranty and disk drive specifications for business applications, as well as a complete range of 3rd party certifications.

For reliable small-scale virtualization projects:

VMware Ready certification for vSphere
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 certification for Hyper-V

For affordable disk-based backup applications:

The only officially supported Symantec Backup Exec agent in this product class
Veeam and Vizioncore backup software compatibility for virtual environments
Acronis and StorageCraft backup software compatibility for mixed physical/virtual environments

For hybrid cloud services:

A free 12 month, 100GB ReadyNAS Vault cloud archive subscription for online file archive and disaster recovery
Multi-site file backup, restore and disaster recovery with the ReadyNAS Replicate option
ReadyNAS Remote, an automatic VPN service for secure remote access

"Server virtualization has delivered the benefits of capital cost savings and equipment consolidation," said Gartner analyst Jim Browning in his October 2010 Market Insight. "For midsize businesses with remote offices, virtualization has empowered them to deploy affordable in-house disaster recovery solutions for the first time."

Nigel Hopkins, president at Clariom, Inc., says: "Reliable backups are critical for our market research firm, and the more we grow the longer it takes. We found it simple to add the Pro 4 to our network and saw immediate improvements in backup performance. And as we consider a virtualization project it’s the obvious choice. We switched to ReadyNAS systems from tapes years ago and haven’t looked back."

"NETGEAR continues to focus on solutions for smart IT departments requiring reliable, affordable and easy to use storage," said Mark Song, Product Line Manager at NETGEAR. "The ReadyNAS Pro family is simply smarter for business users and remote office applications."

Pricing and Availability
The ReadyNAS Pro family is available in November 2010 through worldwide NETGEAR PowerShift partners. Product MSRP varies based on storage capacity: