The StorTrends 2400i is a 2U IP-SAN and NAS Storage Solution with twelve hot-swappable SATA Drives up to 24 TB, with the full-featured version of StorTrends iTX 2.7 Data Storage Software.

This dual dialect rack-mount storage appliance manages both block and file data in a form factor that has the storage capacity to support departments, branch offices, and small to medium sized business (SMB) users.  It merges Ethernet-based Storage Area Networks (IP-SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) on a single storage platform. Ideal for either primary or secondary storage, it provides many advanced features and superior manageability at a price that is attractive to SMBs.

Its support for iSCSI enables block applications like Microsoft® Exchange and Oracle® to be deployed or stored on the same server as traditional file services and storage. The StorTrends 2400im is designed with performance in mind, and includes features for advanced storage management such as Advanced Snapshots, Synchronous and Asynchronous Replication and much more.

The StorTrends 2400i offers a host of advanced features that until now only existed in systems costing many times more. The Volume Replication features of the StorTrends 2400i allows data to be stored on multiple StorTrends appliances at multiple sites, and takes advantage of the powerful Wide Area Data Services (WDS) module to dramatically reduce data transfer times and bandwidth use to remote sites.
AMI’s new Auto Provisioning is a step beyond typical Thin Provisioning; it allows administrators to provision NAS volumes to automatically grow to the size needed. AMI’s provisioning module features email alerts and SMTP traps to alert the administrator as capacity nears a preset threshold to determine if additional storage capacity needs to be added before storage space is exhausted.

For improved reliability and disaster prevention, the StorTrends 2400i features a redundant power supply, as well as Smart UPS support, which allows the appliance to seamlessly switch over to UPS power in the event of a power failure and initiate a graceful shutdown.

Each StorTrends IP-SAN and NAS appliance also includes the ManageTrends™ web-based GUI for StorTrends iTX Data Storage Software, which provides discovery and management of multiple StorTrends appliances deployed across the network. ManageTrends also monitors the storage performance, capacity and storage-related events, and provides a detailed analysis of the storage usage and the availability of the storage servers.