Press Releases

7/22/2010
Winchester Systems Releases FlashDisk Global Manager Video
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced a new four-minute video showcasing FlashDisk Global Manager – a web-based GUI that runs their VX Series of FlashDisk RAID Disk Arrays, now in its 11th generation. The video overviews a variety of valuable data services including virtual storage, snapshots, mirroring, volume copy and automated disk-to-disk backup with zero-backup window.
7/6/2010
Winchester Systems FlashDisk RAID Disk Arrays with Virtual Storage Services Achieve VMware Ready™ Status
Winchester Systems, a leading provider of data storage products, today announced that four new FlashDisk RAID disk arrays with Virtual Storage Services including models VX2324S, VX2328R, VX3424S and VX3428R have achieved VMware Ready™ status. This designation indicates that these FlashDisk RAID disk arrays have passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and are now listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List.
7/1/2010
Winchester Systems Introduces 11th Generation FlashDisk RAID Disk Array
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced the introduction of their 11th generation of FlashDisk RAID Disk Arrays featuring a variety of valuable data services including virtual storage, snapshots, mirroring, volume copy and automated disk-to-disk backup with zero-backup window. Additional innovations include “hybrid RAID” with fibre channel ports for high speed SAN performance plus iSCSI ports for web-based disaster recovery, flash memory for cache backup with 10-year retention and FlashDisk Global Manager to monitor multiple arrays from a single browser based GUI.
6/24/2010
Winchester Systems Disk Arrays Offer New 2 TB SAS Disks
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced that their FlashDisk SAS/SATA disk arrays now support the new larger capacity 2 TB SAS disk drives designed for high reliability access to bulk storage.
6/15/2010
Winchester Systems Offers Virtualized Infrastructure White Paper
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider and VMware Technology Alliance Partner, announced the publication of a new white paper, “A Totally Redundant and Virtualized Infrastructure Solution.” The paper highlights the business continuity and disaster recovery services provided in a VMware environment by their VMware Ready V-IP SAN Storage Appliance and FlashDisk RAID Disk Arrays.
6/4/2010
Winchester Systems Offers VMware Professional Services
Winchester Systems, a leading provider of data storage products, announced their new VMware professional services that now complete their systems integration model of product and service offerings. Winchester Systems is a VMware Technical Alliance Partner with 19 of certified VMware Ready disk arrays and storage appliances listed on VMware’s Partner Product Catalog and Hardware Compatibility List.
5/26/2010
Winchester Systems SAS/SATA Arrays Deliver Exceptional Performance
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions company, today announced speed improvements to FlashDisk SX-2300 and FlashDisk SX-3400 SAS/SATA disk arrays. Both models now deliver over 2,500 MB per second data throughput for large file transfers and 149,000 I/O operations per second for transaction processing.
5/10/2010
Winchester Systems Offers VMware SAN White Paper
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider and VMware Technology Alliance Partner, announced the publication of a new white paper, “Deploying SAN Data Storage on VMware" that outlines the capacity, speed and reliability demanded by VMware data storage and shows how FlashDisk meets those needs.
5/4/2010
Winchester Systems Ships 15,000th Storage System
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced that the company has reached a significant milestone – shipping their 15,000th system.
4/22/2010
Winchester Systems Disk Arrays Offers On-Board Storage Services - Virtualization, Snapshots, Mirroring and Volume Copy
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced that their FlashDisk VX-3400 Series SAS/SATA disk arrays now provide a compelling collection of storage services built into the on-board RAID controllers. These services include virtualized storage pools of SAS and SATA storage up to 224 TB that support snapshots, mirroring and volume copy operations – plus FlashD2D scheduled disk-to-disk backup from primary to secondary storage. The FlashDisk VX-3400 is targeted to compete with very popular storage arrays by providing the most useful storage services at substantially better value point.
4/21/2010
Winchester Systems and Dot Hill Deliver Rugged Storage
Winchester Systems, a leader in rugged disk arrays for military and mobile applications, and Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a provider of world-class storage solutions and software for OEMs, open storage partners and system integrators, today announced that Winchester Systems will leverage Dot Hill’s R/Evolution™ architecture to deliver ruggedized, high-density, high speed storage solutions to Winchester Systems’ base of U.S. military and commercial customers.
3/17/2010
Winchester Systems Launches New Web Site
Winchester Systems, a leading provider of data storage products, today announced that they have launched a complete new web site. The new site is more informative and interactive, offering a wealth of information including white papers, success stories, product information and encourages visitors to engage and respond by inviting them to ask questions, request calls, consultations, registrations and price quotations.
3/1/2010
Winchester Systems FlashDisk RAID Disk Arrays Achieve VMware Ready™ Status
Winchester Systems, a leading provider of data storage products, today announced that a complete line of FlashDisk RAID disk arrays, including Fibre Channel, SAS and SATA models, have achieved VMware Ready™ status. This designation indicates that these FlashDisk storage products have passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and are now listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List.
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