Technology & IT | Tuesday 9 June, 2015 12:38 pm |

Lenovo, the world’s No.1 PC vendor, today launched two new SAN offerings in select countries in the Middle East – the Lenovo Storage S2200 and S3200 storage arrays. Designed for simplicity, speed, scalability and availability, these feature-rich arrays easily integrate into any network environment. Known for providing customer value, Lenovo delivers enterprise class SAN offerings loaded with proven storage innovations at an affordable entry-level price point. These systems support demanding workloads while painlessly and economically jump-starting the transition to flash technology.

“Today we are introducing a new Standard for SAN,” said Mohammad Jweied Al-Mufleh, Storage Business Development Manager at Lenovo Middle East & Africa. “We are furthering our commitment to our customers in the Middle East with the new Lenovo S2200 and S3200 storage offerings. This highlights our extreme focus on affordable innovation as well as further extends Lenovo’s ability to be your one-stop-shop from PCs to data centers.”

Al-Mufleh added: “The high rate of data growth, flat or shrinking IT budgets and limited IT resources with a lack of storage expertise can make it difficult for any business in the Middle East to respond to increased expectations. Lenovo responds to these and other business challenges with new storage arrays that simplify management and provide advanced functionality all at an affordable price.”

The Lenovo Storage S2200 and S3200 storage devices are now available in United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait and Lebanon.

Business-optimized to support growing business needs
The Lenovo Storage S2200 and S3200 gives businesses simplified data management for a variety of applications, ranging from general purpose web serving and data management/analytics that require high IOPs, to video surveillance and streaming workloads that need high throughput. These storage arrays offer dual and single controllers in 2U-12 and 24 drive configurations. The S2200 supports up to 96 drives and the S3200 supports up to 192 drives to easily support storage growth. The S2200 and S3200 make connectivity simple. The S2200 and S3200 support Fibre Channel, iSCSI and SAS, with the S3200 supporting multi-protocol connectivity that can work with Fibre Channel and iSCSI at the same time. This combination of flexibility and scalability makes integration into nearly any environment easy.

Simple and effective transitions to Flash cost
The Lenovo Storage S2200 and S3200 deliver innovative Intelligent Real-Time Tiering, which automatically moves frequently accessed data to higher performing drives every five seconds, significantly increasing storage performance. With hybrid configurations and Intelligent Real-Time Tiering, the Lenovo Storage S3200 can provide near All-Flash-Array (AFA) performance for up to 120,000 IOPS at a fraction of the cost of today’s Flash only systems.

Functionality meets affordability
Every S2200 and S3200 comes with Lenovo SAN Manager. This intuitive GUI provides advanced features at no extra charge including:
Data Tiering - automatically moves data between storage layers increasing overall storage performance
Thin Provisioning – helps customers purchase only the storage needed for operations,
SSD Read Caching – enables priority access to “hot” data accelerating read performance
Rapid RAID Rebuild - minimizes recovery time and risk factors with rapid data restoration
Snapshot - provides point-in-time copies of live data, eliminating the need for restore and performance hits
Storage Pooling – virtualizes storage across multiple drive types improving IO by up to 2.5x without impacting applications

In addition to redundant power, hot-swappable fans and drives, Lenovo built these systems for 99.999 percent availability, multi-pathing, and in-chassis controller upgrades without the need for data migrations or extended downtime. Storage that is simple to deploy and easy to manage is now accessible to businesses and budgets of all sizes.