WD Unveils Storage Servers For SMEs

Western Digital, the digital storage solutions provider, has launched its WD Sentinel DX4000, a complete network storage solution designed specifically to meet the demands of today’s small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

WD Sentinel DX4000 includes the Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials operating system software and the Intel D525 dual-core Atom CPU. The WD Sentinel DX4000 is centralised shared storage and automatic server-based backup and restore solution, for up to 25 devices (PC and Mac) in a network. It offers complete data protection with built-in hardware and software redundancy for all of the connected devices in the network. With capacities including 4TB, 6TB, 8TB, and 12TB, the WD Sentinel DX4000 lets small business owners expand small office server storage capacity as their business and storage demands grow. In addition, the WD Sentinel DX4000 small office storage server acts as the “on-premise cloud storage” for the SME.

“The WD Sentinel is a one stop solution for the storage, backup and secure remote access needs of any SME,” said Khalid Wani, WD’s Sales Director of Branded Business for India, Middle East and Africa. “The ability to have on-premise, as well as secure remote access to a centralised storage server provides small businesses the agility needed for today’s mobile lifestyle. WD is providing SMEs with a plug-and-play solution that offers complete data storage and protection without the need for maintenance by full-time IT personnel.”

Whether personal or professional, digital content is invaluable and often irreplaceable if lost or compromised. WD Sentinel small office storage server provides several ways for businesses to protect their information without user intervention. WD Sentinel comes preconfigured with enterprise-class drives, RAID storage protection, built-in server based backup and recovery software, redundant networking ports and a redundant power option.

Software included with WD Sentinel provides business owners and their employees the freedom and flexibility to remotely access and share files with external employees, independent consultants and satellite offices anywhere in the world.

WD Sentinel is compatible with a variety of operating systems (OS) including Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. In addition, WD Sentinel is compatible with Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard for file sharing among Windows, Mac and Unix/Linux operating systems and allows businesses to share files with clients, consultants, and inter-office personnel regardless of the OS used.

WD has partnered with KeepVault, an offsite data storage service that improves data protection for the small business owners who rely on WD Sentinel to protect their precious business information. The addition of KeepVault provides an integrated offsite backup solution for SMEs’ most important information, providing secure offsite disaster protection. The service integrates seamlessly into the administration dashboard and the user can choose to compress and or encrypt data while backing it up to the cloud, allowing for improved data transfers with increased security. Data from WD Sentinel can be backed-up to KeepVault either real time or as per a user-defined backup schedule and the administrator can choose to throttle bandwidth to manage network performance, thus providing the SME a hands-free, peace-of-mind, off-site data protection system.