Unitronix announce the Themis RuggedStoreTM 3100 network storage appliance. The RuggedStore 3100 appliance combines Themis’s thermal and kinetic design expertise with EMC® VNXe® unified storage systems to deliver an unmatched combination of capabilities, simplicity, and efficiency for ruggedised storage. The RuggedStore 3100 enables storage consolidation with seamless management that eliminates the boundaries between applications and their storage. Designed for military critical defence and industrial customers, the new systems are capable of withstanding wide temperature ranges, intense shock and vibration. The base unit can hold up to 12 drives, with scalability of up to 96 total drives, using storage expansion enclosures.

The RuggedStore 3100 meets the needs of dynamic organisations that must scale and distribute work group access to data. This ruggedised appliance provides an ideal platform for demanding environments with physical server infrastructures, as well as those employing server virtualisation, to drive consolidation and greater efficiency. The RuggedStore 3100 provides a set of features that enable exceptional capacity utilisation, data protection and availability solutions, and advanced support capabilities.

• Compact 2RU x 17.46” x 16.69” (88.5 mm x 443.4 mm x 424 mm) form factor that is suitable for almost any environment
• Multi-protocol IP connectivity for concurrent NAS and SANs with support for file-based (CIFS, NFS) and block-based (iSCSI) protocols
• Scalable up to 96 drives and 57.6 TB with 2.5″ 600-GB SAS drives
• Two 1-Gb/sec Ethernet for NAS and iSCSI, with 1 Flex I/O slot that allows for four additional 1-Gb/sec ports
• Powerful application-based provisioning wizards for breakthrough simplicity, including seamless integration with VMWare, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Hyper-V
• Themis RuggedStore Manager is a customised version of Unisphere for VNXe and provides centralised management for seamless access to all storage