Drobo Claims New B1200i Storage Device is Most Automated Available

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Drobo today introduced a new Drobo for business solution, the Drobo B1200i, which features technological breakthroughs and an unprecedented combination of automation, affordability and application awareness for the small and medium business (SMB) market. The new 12-bay Drobo provides business customers with a unique storage solution for VMware, Microsoft Exchange and other business applications offering advanced and sophisticated capabilities for customers without large enterprise budgets or deep storage expertise. The new Drobo takes an application-driven approach to storage, cutting cost and complexity while automating modern data protection, capacity planning and application performance. The new Drobo 12-Bay iSCSI SAN storage for business model B1200i is available now for purchase with pricing starting under $10,000 for 12 TB of SAS storage.

Drobo B1200i Automation Features:

  • Automated BeyondRAID technology optimizes advanced data protection without the need for specific storage expertise or configuration
  • Automated thin provisioning and reclamation delivers enterprise-class
  • expandability and storage utilization features in a simplified, automated manner

  • New, automated data-aware tiering solves performance tuning issues that have traditionally taken storage administrators weeks or months to address

Drobo B1200i Application-Driven:

  • Adjusts in real-time to changes in application workload, without the need for user or admin intervention and tuning
  • Uniquely utilizes SSD technology in the same pool as conventional disk drives to accelerate the most demanding operations automatically, based on application workload

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