NAS Technology & Product Update Processor Magazine 7/20/2007
DNF Storage offers a multitude of storage appliances based on either Windows Storage Server (in its FlexStor line) or an embedded Linux platform (via the DataStor series). According to Product Manager Jame Ervin, both lines feature unified NAS/SAN functionality in an easily configured and managed package. Ervin notes that in addition to supporting both block and file storage protocols, many of the company’s boxes can host multiple disk I/O interfaces—low-cost SATA and high-performance SAS—in the same platform. ... Another interesting feature from DNF, just recently available as an upgrade option, is support for 10Gb Ethernet interfaces on most of its FlexStor and DataStor products.
Storage-Area Networks: Choosing The Right Option For Your SME Processor Magazine 7/20/2007
Today’s SANs are used for a variety of applications and business sizes.” For this reason, Ervin points out that data center managers need to know which category their businesses fall under and purchase products accordingly. If a data center manager works at a midsized enterprise, it wouldn’t make sense for her to acquire monolithic systems that are typically put into place by huge corporations. With that framework in mind, DNF Storage has a number of products that are aimed at the SME. Products, such as the StoneFly IP SANs, IPBank iSCSI Appliances, modular SANS based on its SANgear controllers, and the Enterprise RAID product family, are ideal for data center managers in midsized enterprises, and each of the aforementioned products offers affordable prices with great functionality and scalability.
Network Attached Storage: Satiation With NAS Systems Processor Magazine 4/20/2007
The DataStor C2-SA16322 leverages commodity components to provide outstanding performance and storage capacity at a competitive price. Each DataStor cluster consists of two NAS-Engines connected to at least one storage subsystem. The result? Up to 36TB of storage in only 13U of rack space with a maximum capacity of 128TB per appliance.
Samsung Ships 'World's First' Hybrid HDD—or Is It? eWeek 3/7/2007
Samsung on March 7 shipped what it called the "world's first hybrid hard drive" to the commercial marketplace, but it will get an argument from Dynamic Network Factory, which started shipping its own hybrid storage hard drive on Feb. 1.
Setting Sights On Storage Processor Magazine 2/23/2007
Fueled by regulatory compliance, disaster recovery, and the ever-increasing need for overall business continuity, storage has grown from a wayside necessity to a top priority that’s spawning powerful, flexible technologies that are impacting enterprises of nearly every size.
DNF Launches RAID SAS Box Byte and Switch 2/13/2007
Dynamic Network Factory, Inc. (DNF), a leading maker of high-performance network attached storage (NAS), storage area networks (SANs), RAID and iSCSI systems, today introduced the Enterprise F12-HA, a robust, high-availability 4Gb RAID subsystem with features -- such as active-active RAID Controllers, low-cost expansion options and SAS and SATA disk support – that meet the escalating demands of small and mid-range enterprises.
Hybrid Solid State Storage Drives Arrive Image and Data Manager (Austrailia) 2/2/2007
Time has a sneaky way of creeping up on you, however, unlike the discovery of a grey hair the steady march of solid state storage technology into the mainstream cannot come soon enough. Thankfully, the first hybrids and pure SSD are beginning to arrive. .... Network attached storage (NAS) specialist the Dynamic Network Factory (DNF) has just released its latest Hyper Solid State (HSS) disk drive technology, pushing it as an energy-efficient new breed of disk storage offering up to 20 times th
Dynamic Network Factory Ships First Hybrid Storage Drive eWeek 2/1/2007
High-performance network storage provider Dynamic Network Factory introduced Feb. 1 the first hybrid solid-state, spinning disk storage system, which the company claims is capable of delivering up to 20 times the drive performance of conventional, 15,000-RPM enterprise-class SAS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel disk drives--while aiming to lower the costs of power and cooling.
Hybrid drives hit NAS boxes Searchstorage.com 1/31/2007
DNF claims that its Hyper Solid-State hybrid SATA or SAS drives each pack 20 times more performance than comparable 15,000 rpm drives. Power consumption, also, is 12.5W, which DNF says is 40% less power than 146 GB 15,000 rpm SAS disks, and 24% less than 15,000 rpm Fibre Channel drives.
Hybrid Drives hit NAS Search Storage 1/31/2007
Dynamic Network Factory Inc. (DNF) announced Tuesday that it plans to make 120 GB SATA and SAS drives available with high-speed RAM attached within its storage products, with the goal of speeding performance and reducing power consumption.
