NETENGINE LAUNCHES X5 NAS FOR THE ENTERPRISE

March 10, 2003 – San Jose, California. NetEngine, Inc. today released X5 NAS™, an affordable solution capable of supporting the enterprise scale environment. At a time when businesses must focus on cost-cutting measures combined with an increasing need for redundancy, security and high-speed performance, the timely release of X5 NAS provides an affordable solution that makes data protection and management simple.

Exceptional Performance

With Embedded OS, 64bit disk and network I/O, Xeon CPU with 533MHz FSB and 512MB or 1.0GB DDR memory, X5 NAS is poised to deliver the record breaking performance. In addition, X5 NAS supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD, where RAID 10 combines both performance of RAID 0 while maintaining redundancy of RAID 1. Switched architecture on the RAID controller card delivers highest throughput with reliability for both PATA (133MB/sec) and SATA (150MB/sec).

Mission Critical Features

X5 NAS is built to provide services 24/7, and server failure is no exception to this rule. X5 NAS introduces server to server mirroring and fail-over. First, content stored on the primary server is copied and maintained in the secondary server in real-time. Second, all the server settings of the primary server are updated and maintained at the secondary server so that when there’s a fail-over from the primary to the secondary, this process is transparent to the attached clients. Snap shot data recovery feature protects accidental deletion of data by users. Local tape back up agent offers tape back up attachment via. Ultra320 SCSI port mounted on the NAS server.

In addition to the mission critical software features, X5 NAS offers RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD with hot spare pool, hot swap hard disk drives, hot swap redundant power supplies, dual Gigabit (copper or fiber) NIC’s with fail-over and UPS support.

Security and Manageability

X5 NAS secures its data by synchronizing with various servers and authenticating each user and password for access. X5 NAS uses security scheme of ADS/PDC/Host IP blocking for Microsoft, NIS and UNIX Host for UNIX clients, Local/Group security for Apple, Web and FTP clients.

X5 NAS is simple to manage with 10 to 15 minutes required for deployment. It is accessible from anywhere in the world using SSL based telnet or web admin interface.

Scalability

X5 NAS SCSI model can be configured with Ultra320 SCSI or fibre channel based external RAID subsystem in addition to 8 hard disk drives in 2U chassis and 12 hard disk drives in 3U chassis.

About NetEngine

NetEngine, Inc. was founded in April 2000 with the mission to be the leading provider of high-quality server appliance solutions that deliver high performance and value exceeding industry standards through software-driven innovation and excellence in product development. NetEngine is headquartered in San Jose, California with branch offices in Seoul, South Korea. Additional information about NetEngine can be found on the company web site at www.netengine1.com.