MTI Technology Corp. , a provider of storage and business solutions, today unveiled the Vivant(TM) D100, which says is a multi terabyte direct-attached storage solution that brings enterprise-class storage capabilities to departmental, workgroup and storage-intensive specialized applications environments.
According to MTI, this latest entry in MTI’s Vivant Series can be attached to improve performance for high-use servers running data-intensive applications. It says that the D100 extends the Vivant family features to applications servers used in office, data center and co-location environments.
The MTI family of products, including the new MTI D100, is designed to support the demanding data storage requirements of large corporate enterprises and departmental systems service database, OLTP, web serving and high-performance workloads, including imaging and digital video applications.
MTI says that the D100 allows users to connect the unit to a single host via dual high-speed Fibre Channel connections, creating redundant data paths between the host and local storage, or to two independent hosts via independent 100 MB/sec Fibre Channel connections, allowing for maximum performance and local storage access. MTI has incorporated further redundant components and data paths for continuous data access to up to 1.7 TB of local storage capacity.