Celeros Launches EzSAN XR56, a high capacity (9.6TB) Low Cost IP SAN (iSCSI)
Appliance for SMB Customers
Redwood City, Calif., July 22, 2005 — Celeros Corporation® today announced the launch
of EzSAN XR56, a higher capacity SATA RAID appliance to round out its EzSAN™ iSCSI low cost
product family.
EzSAN XR56 is ideal for high capacity block level storage for high performance servers or
clusters, Disk-to-Disk back up storage, video, email, IM and vital business document archive storage,
and regional/central back up storage for remote offices. XR56 is housed in a 5U, 19" rack mountable
chassis with 24 hot swappable SATA RAID disk bays and can support up to 9.6 terabytes of raw disk
capacity in its initial release. EzSAN XR56 supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10 and 50 and comes with 2+1
redundant hot swappable power and cooling, built-in Dual Gigabit Ethernet and 1 gigabyte of cache as
standard. An easy to use, browser-based storage management tool manages the entire EzSAN™ product
line.
"This is another step in Celeros' promise of bringing SANity to storage costs. EzSAN XR56 is meant to
bring higher capacity and lower cost per gigabyte of storage to the Storage Area Networks (SAN)
market", said Abtin Assadi, Celeros' CEO. "The EzSAN family of Appliances provides small and medium
businesses the benefits of storage consolidation and centralization at very affordable, market-breaking
prices", Assadi continued.
By continuing our quest to provide a full-featured line of storage appliances that deliver rock solid
reliability, screaming performance, high scalability, and highly secure solutions, Celeros has
assembled the best of breed in storage, networking, management and packaging to deliver a unique value
to its customers. EzSAN™ prices start at $3,495 for the XR11, $5,995 for the XR23, and $9,495 for
the XR56 and are currently available for shipment to anywhere in North America.
