Storage Appliances
As the universal need for increasing amounts of digital storage continues to expand, innovative manufacturers continue to find ways to exploit the individual niches that inevitably emerge. Often such solutions manifest themselves as dedicated hardware appliances, cloud-based systems or a combination of the two.
The CRN Test Center has identified two such specialty products. As with network-attached storage covered earlier this week, appliances can provide MSPs and solution providers with revenue from the initial sale, installation and setup and ongoing service revenue from the creation and maintenance of user accounts and groups; ongoing moves, adds, changes and other administrative tasks; upgrades to drive capacities, memory and services; and from sales of accessories and the addition of cloud-based services. As Storage Week 2015 continues, here's a look at the Message Archiver from Barracuda Networks and the SpeedServer SR71 from ION Computer Systems.
