Top 10 Reasons to Choose StorTrends® from American Megatrends:

10StorTrends® is a Dual Dialect IP-SAN / NAS Appliance
Save money and valuable rack space by provisioning IP-SAN and NAS volumes simultaneously on the same spindles. StorTrends allows for both block & file data to be used on the same appliance, for optimal use of both power and space. Put an end to server sprawl and reduce TCO by managing all your storage needs from a single platform.

9Simple and Intuitive Web-based Interface with "Single Pane of Glass" Data Storage Management
The easy-to-use ManageTrends™ web GUI allows you to go from "Carton to Configured" in 15 minutes! When compared to other SAN & NAS vendors, StorTrends storage appliances require the least number of clicks to go from setup to fully operational. StorTrends also gives users the flexibility they need, including the ability to incorporate scripts that can automatically do tasks that would otherwise require manual interaction.

8Revolutionary Wide-area Data Services (WDS) Technology with Data Deduplication, Compression, Encryption and WAN Optimization
Reduce the need for costly bandwidth - with the WDS feature of StorTrends® iTX, users can realize up to a 95% increase in replication throughput! The WDS Technology featured in StorTrends iTX offers users the ability to increase replication performance and reduce data transfer time and packet loss by the use of four key technologies: Data Deduplication, Compression, Encryption and WAN Optimization. StorTrends can replicate across small links (i.e. VSAT and etc.) with superb performance thanks to its strong WDS Technology.

7Cutting-edge "Redirect on Write" (ROW) Snapshot Technology for Blistering Performance
AMI's cutting-edge ROW snapshot technology writes snapshots to disk in a matter of milliseconds with virtually no overhead –meaning no take! StorTrends' powerful advanced snapshot capability, combined with its integration with VSS-aware applications, makes it a perfect fit for every environment.

6Thin Provisioning & Auto Provisioning Make Capacity Management Headaches a Thing of the Past
Take the management headaches out of capacity expansion with the Auto Provisioning feature of StorTrends iTX - just set it, and forget it! Thin Provisioning allows you to "grow as you go": allocate space that is not physically available today and then add capacity by simply adding StorTrends 3201j JBODs as needed. Capacity expansion via StorTrends JBODs ("just a bunch of disks") allows for easy and affordable growth without the expense of purchasing un-needed processing power.

5The Ultimate Disaster Recovery Solution
Add StorTrends' robust Disaster Recovery (DR) functionality to provide the utmost security and availability to your enterprise's data. Enterprise-class features including Asynchronous Replication, HA and WDS in StorTrends iTX provide the ultimate DR Solution. Eliminate the cost and management headaches of tape backups by incorporating a disk-based backup into your DR architecture. And to avoid costly downtime, add complete redundancy with true High Availability (HA) regardless of your IP-SAN front end. The OS-agnostic HA module of StorTrends iTX uses IP Virtualization to enable your enterprise to continue to run in the event of a failure of the primary storage device. Automatic failover to the secondary unit will be transparent to the application server.

4Monitor Performance and Capacity Usage with Storage Resource Manager (SRM)
The Storage Resource Management module of StorTrends iTX supplies all the information you need to stay on top of your StorTrends storage appliance. Clear and informative charts and graphs allow you to track capacity usage, data migration, CPU and memory usage, disk latency, and performance. What's more, the SRM module can even help to plan for future storage capacity expansion!

3Information Life Cycle Management (ILM) Technology
Reduce the need for expensive SAS drives or RAID sets for your NAS or SAN environment. Using ILM allows you to keep your most important and frequently used data on your fastest, more expensive SAS drives and RAID sets while allowing older less used date to remain available on less costly media. Stop manually migrating older, less used data off to second and third tier storage. With StorTrends ILM your data is promoted and demoted automatically and seamlessly.

2Free Onsite Installation & Setup
Purchase a StorTrends Appliance and AMI will send an experienced StorTrends Solutions Engineer to your onsite facility to install and setup the StorTrends Appliance while also providing a training tutorial on best practices for your SAN and/or NAS Solution.

1No Hidden Costs with "All-Inclusive" StorTrends Storage Solutions
Choose StorTrends for substantial savings on hardware and installation costs, as AMI doesn't charge by the feature like other NAS and SAN vendors. The feature set of each and every StorTrends storage appliance is all-inclusive and comes preinstalled with the full suite of enterprise-class features at a competitive price.

And one more:

+Partner with a company with a 25 year history of innovation in the computer industry
American Megatrends has been in the storage business since 1996 and has over 50 patents in storage technology and data backup. AMI is a seasoned veteran of the industry and will be here for the long run to support your storage needs. Don't take a risk with a fly-by-night start-up storage company; choose a proven industry leader - choose StorTrends..

**Advanced version of StorTrends iTX network storage software supports up to 1022 read-only / writeable snapshots per appliance