The OEM Computing Solutions (OCS) division of Arrow North American Computer Products (NACP) now offers a network-attached storage (NAS) appliance designed for small and medium-sized businesses. For the first time, small and medium-sized businesses have access to high-end features in one appliance at an affordable cost.

Based on the NS04-4100 model from Lanner Electronics, a leading maker of network storage systems, the NAS appliance combines file serving and sharing, and data management functions with remote boot, system backup and data recovery features. It also integrates an operating system and storage management software application from ApplianceWare, a developer of software solutions for the storage networking market.

Key benefits of the NAS appliance include:

• Ease-of-use – The plug-and-play appliance can be added without shutting down systems. A company can install, configure and manage the appliance with minimal time and expense and without the help of an IT specialist.
• Flexibility – The appliance can scale up to four drives, and technologies including RAID, replication and snapshot are available.
• Reliability – Users will have access to cost-effective disaster recovery and shared file backup at an enterprise-class security level.

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