ChannelWeb Computer News (CRN) has bestowed one of its greatest awards - the Storage Product of the Year - on NETGEAR's ReadyNAS Pro.  It was one of only 15 select products on the publications annual list - you can see the entire list by clicking here.

With capacity ranging up to 6TB and performance in excess of 100MBps, the ReadyNAS Pro puts "massive amounts of storage within reach of even small IT budgets" and "scales down better than others the CRN Test Center has seen." In their summary, CRN editors concluded, "the ReadyNAS Pro puts significant value into the hands of any business workgroup."  You can read CRN's full review here.

Designed for small and medium businesses, workgroups and offices, the ReadyNAS Pro comes in a desktop form factor supporting up to 6 disk drives, and three models with capacities of 1.5TB, 3TB, and 6TB. ReadyNAS enables users to securely store, share and protect files across a LAN or WAN, guard against disk failures, and grow capacity on the fly. The ReadyNAS Pro includes business-class features like Microsoft Active Directory integration, iSCSI support, advanced Ethernet management, secure offsite replication, and unsurpassed 5-year warranty. The ReadyNAS Pro is an extremely fast and affordable platform for channel partners to solve customer challenges around file sharing and database applications, server and desktop virtualization, and even offsite disaster recovery. 

[Read the rest of the official press release via MarketWire]

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