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IPDATA Network Storage Appliance Series: IPDATA-WUDSS Unified Network Storage Appliances:
Network-Attached Storage supporting both File-System Data and Block-Storage!


Gateway Appliances for Modula Storage Unified Storage Network Appliances Integrated Storage Appliances

Unified Network Storage Solution

All-in-One Storage Box Provide an integrated solution offering file-level and block-level storage within the same device. It gives the ability to deploy and efficiently manage an integrated storage solution that supports storage interface technologies for Storage Area Networks (SANs) with iSCSI, and Network-Attached Storage (NAS) with Server Message Block (SMB) and Network File System (NFS) support

iSCSI Initiator and Target Support Supports implementation of iSCSI SAN solution by providing access to external storage systems over Ethernet networks using iSCSI initiator. Additionally, with the ability to act as an iSCSI target, it provides additional block storage for application servers, such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft ® SQL Server ™ , or other database programs


Advanced Network Storage Management for SME Market

Out-Of-Box Experience Incorporates a single configuration utility that starts automatically at logon, guiding administrators through the initial setup. And for common configuration tasks, administrators will have access to all the appropriate tools through the "Initial Configuration Tasks" interface

Centralized Storage Resource Management Allows administrators to deploy, configure, and manage multi-protocol storage technologies from a central location using the same familiar Microsoft Management Console interface to implement that solution

Data Protection

  • Snapshots for Enhanced Data Protection thru, PiT Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
  • Distributed File System for Load Balancing and WAN friendly Robust Remote File Replication
  • Single Instance Storage and Indexing Services


Tailored Hardware Platforms for Custom Storage Infrastructures




Modular, SAN Gateway Standard (Single Head) or Enterpise (Multi Head w/HA)
Appliance Configuration Options: Can be configured as a standalone NAS and iSCSI Gateway. Two such heads can be configured together to provide Enterprise Class High Availability for Gateway Level Failover when configured with WUDSS Enterprise Software options

  • IPDATA NAS Appliance Head: Dedicated NAS and iSCSI (iSCSI Inititator) Gateway, or
  • IPDATA iSCSI Appliance Head: Dedicated iSCSI Storage Target, or
  • IPDATA NAS + iSCSI Appliance Head: Hybrid Appliance with NAS + iSCSI Gateway, and iSCSI Storage Target


Storage Expansion: No integrated storage (except a pair of mirrored OS disks). External Storage Module(s) such as a DAS-RAID Subsystem (Requires SAS or Fibre PCIe HBA, supports up to 16 x 4 = 64TB per host channel) or iSCSI IPDATA Storage Appliance is required

Integrated with Built-In Storage
Appliance Configurations Options:
Offers built-in storage to help build a low cost, flexible and scalable foundation for network based storage.

  • IPDATA NAS Appliance: Dedicated NAS and iSCSI (iSCSI Inititator) Gateway, or
  • IPDATA iSCSI Appliance: Dedicated iSCSI Storage Target, or
  • IPDATA NAS + iSCSI Appliance: Hybrid Appliance with NAS + iSCSI Gateway, and integrated iSCSI Storage Target

Storage Expansion: Offers built in storage capacity of 4TB to 16TB. Add additional storage capcaity thru DAS-RAID Subsystem (Requires SAS or Fibre PCIe HBA) or iSCSI IPDATA Storage Appliance.

High Performance Storage Building Blocks:

Built for Performance
Built on a powerful Server-Class Single or Dual-Core Xeon platform, SATA or SAS drives, PCIe system interconnects, 64-bit OS, 16+ GB of memory, dual Gigabit Ethernet connections with Intel I/O acceleration technology and jumbo frame support, optional TCP/IP Offload Engines enhance performance and accelerate Ethernet throughput to near wire speed. It featuers the latest in Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage connectivity, and provides high performance file sharing resources for Storage Area Netoworks


Open Storage Building Platform with iSCSI Technology:

Double Take Software


Microsoft Applications
Built-in support for Winedows SharePoint Srevices, WebDAV and Print Management

Non-Microsoft, 3rd Party ISV Application Support
Microsoft Unified Data Storage Server 2003 includes all the benefits of application support available in Windows Server 2003 R2. It is fully compatible with Windows-based 3rd party application such as Antivirus, Disaster Recovery, Continous Data Protection, Backup, File System Clustering

Quick Links IPDATA-WUDSS:

Appliance Solution Overview :

Explore IT:

Datasheet(1): WSS 2003 Overview
Datasheet(2): WSS 2003
Datasheet(3): WSS 2003 R2
Datasheet(4): WUDSS 2003
White Paper(5): WSS 2003 R2 NAS

Video(1): WUDSS 2003 Management
Video(2): WUDSS 2003 Solution Movie
Video(3): WUDSS 2003-Business Ready Appliance

Deploy IT:

White Paper: Deploying iSCSI Solutions
White Paper: Simple SAN Deployments
White Paper: File Server Consolidation pdf
White Paper: Windows Storage Server 2003 R2
White Paper: WUDSS 2003

DPM: Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007


Technology Partners
Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 Windows Storage Server 2003 R3 Falcon Stor Double-Take Intel AMD Solution Provider Gold 3 Ware LSI Qlogic

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