Press Releases

2/11/2010
Winchester Systems Joins the VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program
Winchester Systems, a leading provider of data storage products, today announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. The VMware TAP program helps technology vendors integrate their products with VMware virtualization software and deliver timely, joint solutions to mutual customers.
10/14/2009
Winchester Systems 8 Gb Fibre Channel Array Expands to 426 TB
Winchester Systems Inc. announced that their FlashDisk FC-3400 Fibre Channel Disk Array, now in its 10th generation, expands to 426 TB and supports the new 8 Gb Fibre Channel standard. This latest generation of products supports faster ASICs which combined deliver over 1,800 MB per second data throughput and 117,000 IOPS. It provides for expansion to 224 Fibre Channel and SATA disk drives and total storage of 426 TB.
9/15/2009
Winchester Systems Disk Arrays Expand to 224 TB with 2 TB SATA Disks
Winchester Systems Inc. today announced their new FlashDisk SX-3400 and FlashDisk SX-2300 SATA disk arrays. The SX-3400 expands to 224 TB using 3U high shelves and the SX-2300 expands to 168 TB using 2U high shelves. As disk arrays increase in size, so do the chances of a rebuild failure. The company features RAID 6 dual parity to protect data during rebuilds.
7/1/2009
Winchester Systems Upgrades Disk Arrays to 8 Gb Fibre Channel
Winchester Systems Inc. continued its rollout of its 10th generation of FlashDisk RAID disk arrays. Their FlashDisk SX-2300 now offers the latest 8 Gb Fibre Channel ports and a new generation of faster ASICs which combined deliver 1,400 MB per second data throughput and 105,000 IOPS. It provides for expansion to 84 SAS or SATA disk drives and total storage of 84 TB.
6/11/2009
Winchester Systems Launches Virtual iSCSI Storage Appliance
Winchester Systems Inc. today announced a Virtual iSCSI Storage Appliance, named v-IP SAN. The storage appliance provides a virtual pool of centralized storage plus backup, archiving and encryption services plus optional high availability clusters that enables IT managers to quickly and easily protect data locally for business continuity and remotely for disaster recovery.
6/2/2009
Winchester Systems SAS Disk Arrays Offer New 600 GB Disk
Winchester Systems Inc. today announced that their FlashDisk SX-2300 and SX-3400 SAS/SATA disk arrays now support the new larger capacity 600 GB, 10k rpm, disk drives thus expanding enterprise capacity.
5/21/2009
Winchester Systems Introduces 8 Gb Fibre Channel Disk Arrays
Winchester Systems Inc. today announced the start of their 10th generation of FlashDisk RAID disk arrays. The initial product in this group is the FlashDisk SX-3400 that offers the latest 8 Gb Fibre Channel ports and a new generation of faster ASICs which combined deliver 1,800 MB per second data throughput and 117,000 IOPS. It provides for expansion to 112 SAS or SATA disk drives and total storage of 112 TB.
4/29/2009
Winchester Systems Tiered Fibre Channel Array Expands to 215 TB
Winchester Systems Inc. today announced that their FlashDisk FC-3400 Series RAID array now provides tiered storage and supports both Fibre Channel and SATA disk drives and has increased capacity from 100 TB to 215 TB.
3/10/2009
Winchester Systems Expands Line of COTS Rugged Storage and Servers
At the FOSE trade show at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, March 10-12, 2009, Winchester Systems Inc. today announced a major new generation of COTS rugged data storage and servers. The units will be shown in booth 1525.
1/8/2009
Winchester Systems Expands NAS to 128 TB
Winchester Systems Inc. today announced that their FlashNAS now supports capacities to 128 TB. The unit provides large scale storage, exceptional Intel Carrier Class and NEBS-3 certified high performance appliances powered by Xeon quad-core processors to 667 MHz and up to 24 GB memory and runs Windows Storage Server 2003 R2