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IceWEB announced the availability of the IceWEB 7000 Unified Data Storage System -- a highly redundant and scalable storage system to support mission critical applications and unstructured data in the data center and in remote cloud storage environments.

The IceWEB 7000 unified storage system simplifies the management and efficiency of today's cloud and virtual data center environments by providing all-inclusive storage for both block and file data across multiple protocols -- Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Oracle databases, virtualized environments as well as unstructured data such as scanned images, files, video, pictures, graphics, and voice -- on IceWEB's single enterprise-class platform.

In addition, the IceWEB 7000 comes with an industry leading performance interface options to handle 40G Ethernet, 56G Infiniband, 16G Fibre Channel and 12G SAS delivering maximum I/O throughput for resource intensive mission critical applications running on IceWEB's SSD storage tiers in large scale deployments.

The plug-and-play IceWEB 7000 unified storage system is easy to install in mid-sized to enterprise environments. Setup wizards allow you to provision storage on-the-fly and the intuitive, web-based IceSTORM OS interface simplifies the use of sophisticated storage management capabilities from any web browser or tablet device. Performance, features and price make the IceWEB 7000 Storage System a perfect fit for both data center and disaster recovery cloud storage sites that require high availability on a limited budget.

"High availability is critical for our clients dealing with massive amounts of both structured and unstructured data, such as the US Air Force, Army, Navy and West Point Academy," said Christopher Lazzari Applications Engineer with NJ-based Videobank, an IceWEB channel partner. "IceWEB's scalability to 1.8 petabytes with the IceWEB 7000 series is a great fit for our clients who need high availability as well as enterprise scalability, robust features -- all at a competitive price."

To make the most of virtual server environments, customers can virtualize storage pools with the IceWEB 7000 Unified Data Storage System using VMWare, Microsoft Hyper-V, or Citrix Xen. Centralized storage and virtual machine management tasks take advantage of instantaneous snapshots to make your backup operations more efficient.

"With the release of the IceWEB 7000 System, IceWEB's family of unified storage systems provides a complete range of capabilities and performance from entry level to the highest levels of redundancy and availability for virtually any data center environment," stated, John R. Signorello, IceWEB CEO. "The 7000 uniquely positions IceWEB at the forefront of the growing market for unified data storage as more and more organizations recognize the overwhelming value of a single, scalable and easy to manage platform to optimize file and block storage over any protocol, both locally and in the cloud."