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as the server engine and is expandable via 6Gb SAS links to additional storage. We think it's the most bang for the buck available in any Ethernet-based storage product." Katz says that the BlueStor was developed years ago "as a high-performance, economically-priced platform, and the earliest products were SAS RAID systems and file serv- ers. By combining these functions into a single unit and continually evolving the product technically, we've cre- ated something quite unique that fills a need between very high-end enterprise systems costing five times more and lower-end SMB systems, which can't offer such perfor- mance and reliability." The powerful BlueStor Networked Storage Server soft- ware has a number of features that make it attractive to DITs and editors, including AFP. NFS, SMB/CIFS and FTP sup- port; built-in iSCSI and fibre channel target; asynchronous replication that replicates storage to another server; snap- shot replication that replicates live data quickly; and point- in-time snapshots that recover files to the earlier state. The euroNAS software operates in harmony with hardware provided by JMR, including: dual 8-core Xe- non CPUs; 32GBs of DDR3/1333MHz memory, expand- able to 1,000GBs; dual 24-port 6GB SAS expanders; dual PCle3.0/6Gb SAS hardware RAID controllers, usually config- ured for RAID 50 or RAID 60; 16 RAID disk drives with up to 64TBs of native capacity; and a dual-port 10GbE network interface with port bonding available. The BlueStor server also features a redundant, thermostatically-controlled cool- ing system and hot-swappable power supply system. "We've sold the BlueStor networked storage servers into small- to medium-size production/post production facilities where, in some cases, 100 percent of all assets are managed and retained by the BlueStor systems," Katz reports. "One local post house is using a single BlueStor to file share among 24 editors; they have maxed out their network switch and now need to improve that so it's not a bottleneck." Jeh productions' Jordan mitchell. the texas studio relies on storage solutions from g-technology.