Netgear offers smart storage solutions for homes

New Delhi: Netgear Inc, a global networking company, is offering ReadyNAS 716 and Ready NAS 516 at an affordable price point in India.

With a maximum capacity of 24TB (up to 84TB with expansion chassis), the six-bay ReadyNAS 716 enables easy storage and extreme throughput for businesses and campus environments supporting up to 500 concurrent users. Providing up to 10GE throughput, ReadyNAS 716 is also the only NAS on the market today capable of simultaneously streaming multiple large uncompressed Blu-ray files.

• The ReadyNAS 700 Series (RN716X) is designed for campus and high performance business environments supporting up to 500 concurrent users. It is a six-bay device and is only offered diskless.
• The ReadyNAS 500 Series (RN516XX) is designed for small to medium-sized business networks supporting up to 250 concurrent users. It is a six-bay device offered as either diskless or populated with drives.

Netgear has earlier introduced a new portfolio of ReadyNAS devices, running on the revolutionary ReadyNAS operating system (OS), that delivers high value, high performance storage with enterprise-class features. The custom-built ReadyNAS OS not only protects stored data with X-RAID2 automatic expansion, but also features continuous data protection through unlimited snapshots, easy disaster recovery with cloud-managed replication, and native threat protection with real-time anti-virus. Each NAS device was created with ease-of-use in mind, so business users can confidently centralize, share, and back up all the data on their network.

Every member of the award-winning ReadyNAS product family combines industry-first innovations with unmatched ease-of-use.

ReadyNAS716 incorporates features and capabilities previously available only from expensive, large-enterprise vendors and dramatically simplifies deployment and manageability to provide businesses with affordable, dynamic, and reliable storage. With a 10GE line rate on the two built-in 10GBASE-T ports, ReadyNAS716 also showcases the latest in performance capability related to simultaneous HD video streams.

"When performance matters and you need storage made easy, there’s no better product in the market than the ReadyNAS 716," says, Subhodeep Bhattacharya, Regional Director, India & SAARC, NETGEAR". "Our objective is to provide our customers with an affordable, high performance, easy-to-use storage solution," "NETGEAR ReadyNAS 716 not only delivers fast, reliable storage, but also makes it easy to stream multiple simultaneous HD video files from everywhere. With ReadyNAS, our customers get a compelling experience without having to invest a huge amount on complex solutions, and can rest easy knowing they have continuous data protection."

ReadyNAS 716 offers the highest performance in the desktop category with 16GB ECC memory — more than any desktop NAS on the market — and features streams for a college seminar, 25 streams to a kindergarten class, or three cutting-edge ReadyCLOUD technology for cloud-based set-up, provisioning, and full file management from any browser. What’s more, the world’s fastest NAS supports 10GE infrastructures, making it ideal for streaming multiple HD videos concurrently to different media clients – whether it’s 85 uncompressed Blu-ray files.

Pricing and availability

Netgear ReadyNAS 716 and ReadyNAS 516 are now available in India through authorized distributors of NETGEAR. The MRP of RN716 and RN516 are Rs 3.2 lakhs and Rs 1.4 lakhs respectively and they come with a warranty of 5 years.