Valued Customer, The Quantum software team is pleased to announce the availability of StorNext 3.1.2. This update includes feature enhances to LAN Client, increases StorNext’s range of supported operating systems and storage types, and increases the serviceability of StorNext. New to the 3.1.2 release are: Service & Feature Enhancements New Administrative Alerts New RAS Tickets Simplify Troubleshooting LAN Client – Firewall Support & Performance Tuning Operating System Updates Red Hat 5 (x86-64) Mass Storage Updates IBM LTO-4 (WORM) HP LTO-4 Quantum PX-502 NEW LAN Client Lets You Get More Value From Your Data StorNext isn’t only for SANs. With StorNext LAN Client you can leverage your standard IP network for high speed data sharing. At nearly twice the speed and more resilient than standard network sharing technologies, LAN Client gives you the performance and data availability boost that you’d expect from StorNext but uses your LAN for sharing data between systems like processing farms and lower cost systems without SAN connectivity. LAN client works with traditional SAN clients to let you build a Service Oriented Architecture so you can share data almost anywhere depending on performance and cost requirements for each system. How Do You Control Storage Costs and Protect Your StorNext Content? With the Storage Manager upgrade to StorNext, you can leverage the power of tiered storage to control costs and protect data. Using Quantum’s iMover technology, Storage Manager provides non-disruptive data movement to cost-effective archive tiers. Integrated data protection functions are also included so you can automatically clone files and send them offsite for data protection, streamlining your disaster recovery process. For information on this release, LAN Client, Storage Manager, or additional product information / comments, feel free to contact the software team at softwareinfo@quantum.com or 800-677-6268.