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TwinStrata’s breakthrough cloud storage enablement software (CES) adds intelligence to the storage cloud.

CloudArray provides comprehensive CSE in the form of enterprise-class storage features that enable delivery of cost-effective and seamlessly managed cloud storage services optimized for performance, availability and elastic storage capacity.
Seamless Integration with Applications, Physical and Virtual Servers

CloudArray software enables businesses to seamlessly and securely integrate existing business applications to cloud storage without any changes to applications or programming of cloud provider APIs (Application Programming Interface). CloudArray supports applications running on both physical and virtual servers.

Cloud Storage Volumes

CloudArray volume policies for caching and replication allow data to be cached locally for quick access and replicated to Cloud storage for high availability. CloudArray provides data snapshot services for point-in-time copies for rollback, test development, data analytics and for other applications.
CloudArray volumes can be configured to be partially cached or up to 100% cached, depending upon the application. This allows for consistent copies of volumes in two separate locations; local to your data center and in the Cloud (private or public).
Today’s Data Management Challenge

The integrity and availability of data, especially higher value data related to business critical applications, matters more than ever. Why? Companies rely more than ever on IT for operational process and to gain competitive business advantages in a global economy. As a result, storage related solutions matter even more, and need to easily and quickly scale to accommodate requirements of data doubling every year or two.

These solutions should not require capital intensive upgrades when capacity limits are reached. They must support multiple data formats for all types of business applications. In addition, companies should understand the impact of an application outage will have on each line-of-business or on the company as a whole in order to implement appropriate data recovery operations.
Data Availability and Security

For increased data protection and to ensure high data availability, CloudArray offers data copy policies that replicate data across local storage and a variety of third party storage cloud providers. CloudArray also enables replication between service providers. CloudArray compresses and encrypts data prior to transporting it to public cloud storage to ensure data security and privacy. CloudArray leverages the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), adopted by the U.S. government and also used to secure top secret information.
TwinStrata, Intelligent Storage Cloud Address IT Challenges

To help companies address the challenges related to protecting and managing the growth of business application data, TwinStrata is delivering on its vision for intelligent storage clouds (ISC) solutions. ISC focus on key business needs for companies to include business agility and efficiency, IT alignment and cost management. Click on diagram located on right to learn more on the details behind the value ISC bring to each business need.

ISC consist of storage-as-a-service offerings combined with intelligent cloud storage enablement (CSE) solutions. CSE address the primary concerns that companies have expressed regarding enterprise IT adoption of cloud storage solutions and deliver the following features:
Compute Anywhere™ application accessibility: on/off-premise, in the cloud
Non-disruptive integration with business applications
Support for all industry file systems and block-level access
Intelligent caching architecture that delivers local performance
Support for virtual and physical IT environments
Ease of deployment, ability to manage in self-service manner via UI, CLI and API
Local and cloud data copies, zero-footprint snapshots
Encryption for security
Bandwidth savings via caching, compression, deduplication
Support for multiple cloud providers, with data mobility across providers
Support for providers that offer SLAs for regulatory & compliance requirements
Solutions for Backup/Restore, Archive and Microsoft Exchange 2010
TwinStrata helps companies address the challenges related to protecting and managing the growth of business application data. Its breakthrough CloudArray storage enablement software delivers enterprise-class storage cloud services optimized for performance, availability and elastic storage capacity by fitting seamlessly into Symantec Backup Exec, CA ARCServe, ESXpress, VEEAM, vRanger Pro and Oracle RMan environment(s) . CloudArray provides secure anywhere, anytime application accessibility. Organizations can now map business objectives to dynamic storage resources with on-demand services.

CloudArray software is the market enabler of choice for implementing intelligent storage cloud solutions by providing Compute Anywhere™ application accessibility, non-disruptive integration, intelligent caching architecture that delivers local performance and a host of other enterprise-class feature sets.

For companies that are using tape systems or disk-to-disk backup for data protection, they can now select CloudArray as the target backup solution. CloudArray eliminates all the logistics and costs typically associated with media transport or tape vaulting services and does not require large capital investments in infrastructure whenever expansion is required.
Data Storage Systems, Inc. (DSS, Inc.) is once again first to market with "leading egde" data storage solutions for the mid-range and enterprise data centers.

This time, its DSS, Inc. Intelligent Cloud StorageArray. For more information, please call DSS, Inc. Sales at: (763) 416-0474 or e-Mail: sales@datastoragesys.com.

The DSS, Inc. Cloud StorageArray utilizes TwinStrata's Cloud Storage Enablement Software, CloudArray and a DSS, Inc. dedicated physical server to run CloudArray and provide up to 24Tb of data capacity for creating a turn-key cloud storage array that can be replicated off premise or to a Cloud API.
DSS, Inc Cloud Storage Array Appliance
Supported Applications:
Backup / Restore
Disaster Recovery
Data Replication
Data and application mobility
Elastic Capacity
Elastic Compute
Data Archiving
DSS, Inc. Cloud StorageArray Server with 24Tb physical backup capacity
Form Factor
3U chassis support for max. motherboard size - 13.68" x 13"

Processor Support
Supports dual, single Intel® / AMD processors

Dimensions
Height 5.2" (132mm)
Width 17.2" (437mm)
Depth 25.5" (648mm)
Gross Weight 70 lbs (31.8kg)
Available Colors Black, Silver (OEM) *

Expansion Slots
• 7x full-height full-length expansion slots

Drive Bays
Hot-swap 16x 3.5" Hot-swap drive trays

SCSI Backplane
1x 3U Dual-Channel U320 SCSI Backplane with Enclosure Management

Peripheral Drives
DVD-ROM Slim DVD-ROM Drive
Floppy Slim 1.44MB Floppy Drive (Optional)

Front Panel
Buttons • Power On/Off button
• System Reset button
LEDs • Power LED
• Hard drive activity LED
• 2x Network activity LEDs
• System Overheat LED
• Power fail LED
Ports 2x USB Ports & DB9 COM Port
System Cooling
Fans
3x 80mm Hot-swap PWM Fans
2x 80mm Rear-exhaust Fans

System Monitoring
Chassis intrusion switch
Operating Environment (System)
Operating Temperature Range 10 - 35°C (50° - 95°F)
Non-Operating Temperature Range -40 - 70°C (-40° - 158°F)
Humidity Range 8 - 90% non-condensing
Non-Operating Humidity Range 5 - 95% non-condensing

Power Supply and Distributor
800W (1 + 1) Redundant AC-DC high-efficiency power supply w/ PFC
AC Voltage 100 - 240V, 50-60Hz, 10-4 Amp
+5V standby 4 Amp
+12V 66 Amp
+5V 30 Amp
+3.3V 24 Amp
-12V 0.6 Amp

Regulatory (Power Supply)
Power Supply Safety / EMC USA - UL listed
Canada - CUL listed
Germany - TUV Certified
EN 60950/IEC 60950-Compliant
CB Report
CCC Certification
DSSCSA-24TB
DSS, Inc. Cloud StorageArray. Consists of 1-dedicated backup server with dual Intel Processors, 24Tb physical capacity. TwinStrata CloudArray software and Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Web Service.
DSS Inc. Could StorageArray Hardware
DSS, Inc. Cloud StorageArray Appliance
Highlights:
DSS, Inc.'s Dual Proceessor 24TB Backup Server running TwinStrata CloudArray.
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