Galaxy® Net: SAN for MAC and PC Workgroups |
Applications:
Post Production
Sound For Film & Video
MAC or Windows DVD Authoring
Final Cut Pro, Avid, Protools
and most other pro AV applications |
Introducing GalaxyNET
Rorke Data and Commandsoft have joined forces to create GalaxyNET, a turnkey SAN based on Rorke's award-winning Galaxy RAID and Commandsoft's powerful new Fibrejet 3.0 SAN software, delivering shared, scalable and high performance storage for an unlimited amount of users.
GalaxyNET is based on proven Galaxy RAID technology and the powerful new features of Fibrejet 3.0, to provide a reliable, efficient, and easy to implement SAN, without the usual per seat SAN client charges.
GalaxyNET is optimized to work with most NLEs like Final Cut, ProTools and Avid, empowering digital post professionals to collaborate like never before.
GalaxyNET is built and supported by experienced professionals that understand your application and workflow, and now have made it easier than ever to maximize your creativity and investment! |
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Features and Benefits
- All-in-one Turnkey Solution
Unlimited users, built with Rorke Data’s
award winning Galaxy HDX2 and G3 RAID
arrays.
- Eight different Storage Configurations to
choose from.
Select the capacity and controller configuration
to suit your specific needs:
- 24 TB 24-bay, 4Gb RAID chassis
(single or dual controller options)
- 16 TB 16-bay, 4Gb RAID chassis
with additional SAS expansion bus
for adding even more storage capacity
(single or dual controller options)
- 16 TB 16-bay, 4Gb RAID chassis
(single or dual controller options)
- 12 TB 12-bay, 4Gb RAID chassis
(single or dual controller options)
- Up to 167% Performance Advantage
compared to competing “unlimited user”
products
- Post-Sales Support
One Year warranty standard with on-site
service and term extension options available,
including Toll Free telephone technical
support.
- Unlimited User Expansion Turnkey solution without per-seat SAN client
cost
- Elastic Storage
Provides the ability to grow file systems as
needed.
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Want a truly affordable SAN? FibreJet enterprise-class storage network gives multiple computers concurrent access to terabytes of storage using just about anyone's storage over Fibre Channel. Apple’s Xsan costs $23,383 more than a 6-node FibreJet solution using identical equipment!
 Higher-performance Storage Networking
FibreJet is sometimes 500% the performance of Xsan for the equivalent file-copy operation! FibreJet finds a file in 5 seconds compared to taking over 4 minutes with the same operation in Xsan!
Don’t get sucked into the Xsan-hype. FibreJet is the proven choice for storage and server consolidation, higher performance, lower cost, easy scalability and higher availability.
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Sharing. Its a good thing. FibreJet lets you share files and volumes of virtually unlimited size over a Fibre Channel based network. Virtually unlimited systems on the SAN can read and write to shared storage simultaneously. Using your favorite standard disk utilities, you can pool data across multiple SAN storage (both RAID and JBOD) combined with multipathing for better performance. Each SAN attached computer accesses the storage as if it were directly attached, giving extreme performance for demanding applications such sharing HD video with a workgroup of editors, or cluster computing where high speed access to a shared data set allows each computer to calculate at maximum efficiency.
Work together. Like never before. Since all the SAN attached machines see the storage as if they were directly attached, you can share media among many machines concurrently, enabling true workgroup functionality like never before.
The freedom to collaborate. While others claim to play well with others
FibreJet actually delivers on the work together promise. With true best of class choices in all areas, FibreJet not only works with Fibre Channel switches from the likes of QLogic, Emulex and Brocade, but FibreJet also gives the customer choice when it comes down to the Storage and HBAs. FibreJet will work with just about anyone's RAID or JBOD storage, and also lets you mix and match your choice of HBAs, from the likes of QLogic, ATTO, Apple/LSI, Astera etc.
Higher Availability
FibreJet has less single points of failure than Xsan. In fact, since FibreJet is based on full Fibre Channel SAN architecture, the entire network can be provisioned for redundancy with multipathing, RAID, and Fibre Channel switch fabric topology. Additionally there is no metadata controller that can fail!
Easier Scalability, Easier to Setup, Easier to Manage
Since FibreJet storage works just like your current storage, there is nothing to relearn. Grow the network without disrupting users by simply adding or reconfiguring switches, storage, and servers as required. Setup is a snap, and so is using, your storage is just there like any other disk, if you want. Since management is built into every FibreJet, it can be managed from any machine on your network, or remotely using Apple Remote Desktop.
About Rorke Data: Rorke Data is an ISO9002 certified, global subsidiary of $2.2B data storage distributor, Bell Microproducts (NASDAQ: BELM). Rorke is a VAR/OEM with over 19 years of sales and technical experience specific to storage-centric application environments.
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