Boston Ltd

The majority of business storage products offer NAS and IP SAN services but the mighty Igloo 2U-60T-STOR from Boston (www.boston-worldwide.com) goes one step beyond. Along with a massive capacity, the Igloo presents a truly unified storage solution as it combines NAS, IP SAN and FC SAN operations in the same appliance. The Igloo is a partnership of Supermicro hardware and Open-E’s Data Storage Server (DSS) v7 software. A neat feature of this team is all three storage services comes as standard and the price includes Open-E’s unlimited capacity license so you can expand as much as you want.

Boston’s Igloo is a one very cool unified storage appliance. SMBs that want choice for their storage networks will like Boston’s Igloo as it amalgamates NAS, IP SAN and FC SAN services into a single appliance. What’s more, it delivers a very high storage capacity for the price and has more than a few innovative touches. (...) Verdict: Boston’s combination of hardware and Open-E DSS makes for an affordable, high capacity storage appliance that supports NAS, IP SAN and FC SAN operations out of the box.

Open-E, Inc. and Boston Server & Storage Solutions GmbH, an international specialist hardware solutions provider, announced the certification of the Igloo 4U-24T-Stor based on JovianDSS - a solution for SMB customers with thin provisioning, compression and deduplication. Igloo 4U-24T-Stor is a field-proven, reliable and cost-effective storage solution for SMBs. The server offers power efficiency, and meets virtualization and IO demands by leveraging hybrid storage, tiered storage and all-flash array.

Open-E, a leading developer of innovative data storage software used for building and managing centralized storage servers, and Boston Server & Storage Solutions, an international specialist hardware solutions provider, announced today the official certification of the Igloo 4U-24T-Stor based on Open-E JovianDSS – a complete solution for SMB customers with thin provisioning, compression and deduplication. Boston's Igloo 4U-24T-Stor is a field-proven, reliable and cost-effective storage solution for small and medium-sized businesses. The server offers power efficiency, and meets virtualization and IO demands by leveraging hybrid storage, tiered storage and all-flash array.