Cisco Releases Atom-Powered Storage Networking Device

According to this report on The Register, Cisco is closely matching HP in the small business market with an Atom-powered unified file and block storage device. The Register also reports that the Cisco's NSS 300 Smart Storage is a 2, 4 or 6-bay desktop storage product that can use either 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch hot-swap SATA drives.

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"Both Cisco and HP power their respective boxes with 1.6GHz, dual-core Atom processors, but HP's is a NAS-only (network-attached storage) product with no RAID protection. The Cisco box offers more, including iSCSI block access and RAID 0, 1, 5 and 6 protection. There are five USB 2.0 and two eSATA ports.

"Cisco is also giving it a (very) restricted server role, bundling in a web server with integrated WordPress blog publishing platform, a media server, iTunes server, syslog and RADIUS servers. There is a backup server which supports multiple backup modes, including PC/Macintosh to Smart Storage, server to Smart Storage, or Smart Storage to Smart Storage. There are additional applications available for download including Xdove (email server), Joomla (content management), SABnzbd+ (newsgroup reader), Magneto (e-commerce), Java, JRE6, Python, and IPKG."

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