LSI Corporation has introduced the Syncro CS high availability storage solution, now with Linux support. Syncro CS is claimed to have made high availability storage cost-effective and easy to deploy for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) and remote and branch offices (ROBO).
With added Linux support, Syncro CS now will serves an even larger customer base. Syncro CS supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and provides the OS flexibility needed to easily integrate high availability storage into the data center.
Traditional high availability solutions are designed for large enterprise IT, private and public cloud, and Web 2.0, but are too complex and costly to deploy for SMBs and ROBO environments where high availability is also critical. Syncro CS brings shared storage and storage controller failover into direct-attached storage (DAS) environments at a fraction of the cost and complexity of traditional high availability solutions.
“With a substantial Linux user base in SMB and ROBO, LSI is pleased to now offer Syncro CS to meet their storage sharing and failover needs for business-critical data,” said Jas Tremblay, Vice President of Marketing, Datacenter Solutions Group, LSI. “High availability storage systems will become an important asset for businesses of all sizes as the value of data continues to grow.”
“Linux has penetrated into all areas of IT infrastructures, and it has a growing share of datacenters, making this announcement on Syncro CS compelling,” said Doug Williams, Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives, Office of the CTO, Red Hat. “Red Hat Enterprise Linux has demonstrated industry-leading quality, stability and reliability, and the availability of Syncro CS running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux brings high availability for DAS environments to the datacenter in a new way, giving customers access to a promising technology that can significantly reduce the cost of many different architectures and workloads. Additionally, LSI Syncro combined with the software-defined storage and volume economics of Red Hat Storage creates valuable new use cases, especially around long-term storage repositories.”
