Maxtor Picks W2K for High End NAS Appliance

Although the NAS and other electrical equipment, is intended to be "black box" device, its internal operation is so important ratio, its functions, management appliances, is becoming an important selling point . In response, the company decided to abandon Maxtor BSD Unix, and other advocates Windows 2000s new NAS products.

Maxtor said, managers will find that its 4100 NAS appliance maxattach the easy configuration and management, particularly in the Windows environment. The company said administrators can install and configure a unit, in less than 10 minutes.

Administrators can configure equipment in the same way as a file and print server.

In addition, NAS, and other Windows 2000 can use the characteristics of the including Active Directory.

The maxattach the NAS 4100 to provide 160 GB hard drive 320 GB capacity and configuration. Maxtor has always been to play in a lower end of the NAS market competition, the Working Group and the realization of branch offices, but function, it high-end NASs proposal is focused on high, In " br> enterprises. Both units feature a SCSI port can be connected to the library backup and recovery. Overview of the 320 GB implementation also provides Gigabit Ethernet ports to enable it to connect to the high-speed backbone network or server farms. Maxtor previously embedded use BSD (Berkeley Standard Distribution ) UNIX operating system, in its series of NAS devices. 1 spokesman said that when the company began to design a used appliance more high-end, enterprise, and it looks forward in a number of operating systems, including Linux, but at the end of the Windows 2000 Application packages 1.0 server implementation, because it offers the best integrated their clients existing environment.

Microsoft The company has aggressive promotion of Windows 2000 as an embedded operating system system, perhaps because of the threat of Linux. As Linux and BSD Unix open source , and modular structure, it is very simple for developers to amend The Code, stripping down to create the embedded operating system. OEM manufacturers to allow the modular At the same time, Microsoft has distributed its application server suite. It gives original equipment manufacturers the ability to choose a la carte Windows 2000. -- Christopher Fumaikekenaier related story beta test version of Microsoft Windows 2000 Server 2.0 and appliance packages