Darma Releases NAS OS Network Attached Storage Operating System to OEMs and System Builders
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Darma Releases NAS OS Network Attached Storage Operating
System to OEMs and System Builders
Tempe, AZ - August 27, 2003 - Darma
today announced its network attached storage operating system for OEMs and
system builders who manufacturer NAS servers, NAS-SAN gateways, and disk-based
backup appliances. The Darma NAS OS represents a major step forward from
products that use an ordinary web server for critical fileserver management. The
technology behind the Darma NAS OS is an encrypted Java client-server approach
that delivers datacenter-level security and performance along with an easy to
use graphical user interface (GUI).
The Darma NAS OS is an open-standards
Linux-based operating system with a small footprint of approximately 32
Megabytes. OEMs will typically embed the OS on flash memory for additional
reliability. The Java GUI is managed thru a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) browser
session and sports a familiar Windows-style look and feel.
In addition
to the security controls and graphical environment, the Darma NAS OS includes
the following enterprise-level features:
Logical Volume Management with
dynamic volume expansion, storage aggregation, and virtualization
Volume
snapshot technology for instant point-in-time copy of data
SGI's XFS
high-performance journaling filesystem for rapid recovery and extremely large
disk farms
Access Control Lists (ACL) extended file permissions
SMB / CIFS and NFS protocols for Windows, Unix, Linux, and Apple OS X
networks
Microsoft domain and Active Directory Services (ADS)
integration
Mirror local or network data from multiple sources to
destinations; tape or disk backup and restore
Darma is currently working
with its OEM customers to validate the operating system on their specialized NAS
hardware. A number of white box system builders are also evaluating the
operating system. The feedback so far is excellent, with excitement to use our
product to upgrade or replace other operating systems.
Bill Johnson,
president of Darma, says, "Our development efforts have yielded an efficient,
secure, full featured, and low cost operating system that we envision to become
the market leader. We invested a considerable amount of time in the architecture
underneath the hood where others have not. We believe we will be successful in
the markets that require better security and robust functionality."
Darma also unveiled today its roadmap for new features and optional
components to compliment the base NAS OS. These features include the iSCSI
protocol with target and initiator modes, clustering for high performance and
availability, filesystem encryption for data security, integrated firewall and
IPSec for increased network security, local virus scanner, and Common
Information Model (CIM) support for storage management and virtualization.
Product data sheets and development roadmap available at the Darma NAS OS
website: nas.darma.com.
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Darma Inc.
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