Cisco Unveils New Small Biz Storage Line

From CRN: Cisco is expanding its small business storage offering with a new line of storage appliances that give its networking partners a new way to potentially increase profits.

Cisco's new NSS 300 series of appliances are targeted at small businesses with fewer than 100 employees, and include a full suite of software and security features that give solution providers value-add opportunities with customers, said Andrew Sage, vice president of worldwide small business sales for the company.

The three models in the NSS 300 series include two-bay, four-bay, and six-bay models which, when configured with 2-TB hard drives, offer capacities of up to 12 TBs.

Solution providers can configure the appliances with hot-swap drives of their own choice, or purchase the drives through Cisco, Sage said. If the drives are purchased from Cisco, they are included in the appliances' five-year hardware warranty, he said.

The NSS 300 appliances protect data with built-in secure remote Web access and integrated encryption, as well as a choice of RAID 0, 1, 5, and 6.

A simple browser-based setup allows easy deployment of the NSS 300 appliances in Windows, Macintosh, and Linux environments, Sage said.

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