Bersis Has Built Its Own iSCSI Appliance

Founded in 1993, Bersis has been a VAD of data products in Portugal, representing vendors including Bakbone, Brocade, Dot Hill, Emulex, Maxell, Nexsan, Overland, QLogic, Quantum, Qualstar and Tandberg.
 
During the last four years, GM Luis Nascimento explains that his company has been working on a project developing a software solution in order to build its own iSCSI appliance with development continuing to add features.

The devices can cover SMBs to large companies. Bersis has sold around 400 units in Portugal to multi-national companies, private firms, government, local administration, industry, hospitals and education. Now Bersis is looking at business partners to sell in other countries.

The product line of SuperStor NAS/SAN appliances covers from small entry level table tops to 1, 2, 3 and 4U units, with capacities from 1TB  to over 100TB, and can be used as:

• File servers
• Backup to disk
• Exchange, SharePoint and files archiving
• Video surveillance
• Server consolidation
• File replication between appliances
• Support for 10Gb IP-SAN
• Disk availability for servers and users
• Backup server appliance bundled with Bakbone NetVault 8.5.2 Starter or Enterprise Edition
• Backup to disk in the same appliance or to a tape unit (SCSI, SAS, FC) or to both.

The firm will announce shortly 2, 4 and 8Gb FC support.
 
Features of SuperStor Appliance:

• Linux-based OS
• Hardware and software RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50
• Windows CIFS and snapshot support
• Linux clients, Mac (with CIFS/NFS/FTP support)
• VMWare ESX, VMWare ESXi
• Windows Active Directory 2000/2003/2008
• Byte level replication between appliances

Roadmap includes block replication and XenServer iSCSI support as well as an enterprise model with clustering support with multiple storage vendors.