F5 ARX4000 and the F5 Data Manager released next Week
F5 Networks are set to release two new products in the coming week that will improve moving and managing unstructured data.
The F5 ARX4000 is a switch that provides global namespace and data management policies through an operating system common across all ARX models, and is the first of the company’s virtualization switches to support 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networking.
The second new product is the F5 Data Manager, which is a software-based management platform that runs on a Windows machine and interfaces directly with all file storage devices and APX switches. The Data Manager gathers file storage statistics and provides graphical reports and trending functions, to help users plan for future growth.
F5 Networks’ director of product marketing Nigel Burmeister says the ARX4000 “fills a scalability and performance gap in the company’s current product line, while the Data Manager will give customers more control over how they manage and grow capacity for file storage.”
The Data Manager software interfaces with back-end file systems and F5’s ARX file virtualization switches to monitor data in both physical and virtual environments. Data manager collects a range of statistics, including file type, age, size and more, using an optional File System Inventory Module (FSIM). The software pulls together that information and generates reports across the user’s entire visual infrastructure.
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