Improving productivity with a QNAP NAS featuring 10GbE Connectivity

A 10GbE (10 Gigabit Ethernet) network is essential for businesses that demand high bandwidth for virtualization and fast backup and restore for an ever-growing amount of data. QNAP provides a range of 10GbE-ready NAS as an affordable and reliable storage solution for 10GbE environments.

Insufficient bandwidth for increasingly virtualized environments

Traditional networks have utilized evolving standards of Ethernet (including 100Mb to 1Gb), and until quite recently 1GbE has been considered sufficient enough to manage most day-to-day tasks in conventional IT infrastructures. With the rise of virtualization and the cloud however, 1GbE can potentially be a huge bottleneck that can stifle innovation and prevent organizations from improving and developing necessary virtualized environments to take their business further.

Benefits of 10GbE Connectivity

10GbE connectivity delivers ten times as much bandwidth as 1GbE, allowing for greater deployment of services and providing an immediate boost to overall network performance. Many QNAP NAS series are designed with 10GbE readiness, and can be immediately upgraded by purchasing and installing a 10GbE network adapter. QNAP NAS are also available with 10GbE as standard.

Unleash the full potential of virtualization Modern IT infrastructures are increasingly relying on virtualized servers and applications to replace physical servers and equipment. QNAP NAS are VMware® Certified, Citrix® Certified, and Microsoft® Hyper-V Compliant in order to allow organizations to leverage all the benefits from virtualization and to flexibly deploy virtualization environments. With 10GbE readiness this virtualization potential can be fully realized and an increasing number of services consolidated into virtualized environments.
	Improve overall network performance and everyday tasks With ten times the bandwidth of 1GbE, normal day-to-day tasks of organizations will see an immediate benefit. Backup and software deployment tasks to multiple workstations can be carried out without impacting network performance, and large-data applications will greatly improve with a major speed increase.
Highly-efficient storage for video editing Digital video production produces a huge amount of data that requires high performance RAID storage. Editing videos also requires an enormous amount of bandwidth that will choke conventional 1GbE networks. A 10GbE QNAP NAS has the ability to quickly store and edit files directly over the network, and also provides the scalability and compatibility to greatly improve the IT infrastructure of digital video studios.

Product highlights: TVS-ECx80U-SAS R2 and TS-ECx80U R2 NAS series with built-in 10GbE SFP+ ports

The enterprise-class rackmount TVS-ECx80U-SAS R2 and TS-ECx80U R2 NAS series include two built-in SFP+ based 10GbE ports that allow users to immediately benefit from 10GbE connectivity without purchasing additional accessories. Both the TVS-ECx80U-SAS R2 and TS-ECx80U R2 series fully support 10GbE high-speed networks, making them beneficial for IOPS-demanding applications such as virtualization, databases, high-resolution video editing, and sharing workflows.

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