StorCenter ix2 Harnesses Corporate Tech

By Nick Mokey October 16, 2008

EMC may not be a household name to consumers who don’t spend their working hours backing up petabytes worth of corporate data, but Iomega hopes to bring the company’s corporate storage technology down to a consumer level with its new StorCenter ix2 Network Storage Appliance, announced Wednesday.

Available in both 1TB and 2TB capacities, the ix2 features back-end technology from EMC with a front-end from Iomega designed to make it easy to use. The company claims that back ups are only “four clicks away.”

Though it connects through a conventional Ethernet jack to make it accessible from any computer on a home or small office network, the device also supports Bluetooth to store and backup data from cell phones and other Bluetooth-equipped devices, without first connecting them to a PC. It can also connect to an Axis surveillance camera to use its storage capacity as a digital library for security footage. And both of its USB ports can even be used to make USB devices accessible on the network, for sharing a printer or even expanding its storage with additional external drives.

The StorCenter ix2 is available in 1TB capacity for $300 or 2TB for $480. Both are available immediately worldwide.

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