That's important, being they're a tape company," Nisbet said. "I think the biggest thing is that they have the ability now, with a direct tape drive to be plugged into the back of the server, to bundle NAS with tape backup. The snapshots eliminate the need for backup windows because the device takes the copies off the network.Īccording to Brad Nisbet, an analyst at IDC in Framingham, Mass., Quantum is moving toward bundled software-disk/tape packages to address increasingly complex network storage environments. The Guardian 4400 also offers the ability to take up to 25 data "point-in-time" data snapshots for backup and restoration. "It's a perfect box for workgroup collaboration." "It's a low-cost, primary NAS storage device that can be immediately shared between all brands of Unix, Linux, Mac or Windows," said Vicki Vollmar, director of networked storage products marketing at Quantum. Up to five Guardian servers can be interconnected through a Gigabit Ethernet port, where they can be backed up to a single tape drive or library, according to Quantum.
The device also comes with a SCSI port and Backup Express software that can store data locally to a designated tape drive or remotely to a tape library. Unlike its predecessor, the Guardian 4400 comes with hot-swappable disk drives, dual network interface cards for redundancy and Gigabit Ethernet throughput, vs.
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