LanBit ties-up with Auspex for NAS soln

LanBit Peripherals, a storage solution provider, has announced its tie-up with the US-based Auspex for marketing its mid-range and enterprise NAS solutions in the Indian market. LanBit has an exclusive marketing agreement with the principal company and focuses on Auspex's recently launched product `NS 3000 Series' which a scalable and price performance solution. "We are more like a distributor for them in India," said Rahul Shah, Director, LanBit Peripherals Pvt Ltd.

LanBit has its own range of NAS solution in the entry-level, FISC CDM and FISC CDH series, while mid-range and enterprise segments are taken care with Auspex products. "We hope to make a big impact in the market with Auspex solutions. Network Attached Storage (NAS) is as such a wonderful concept based on network standards like NFS and CIFS. It gives clear-cut cost advantage and total cost of ownership (TCO) for the users," said Shah.

According to him, although the country is a late-entrant in to these kinds of concept, the market looks very prospective and growing more than 100 percent every year in India. The target segments for these kind of solutions include banking and financial institutions, software development companies, VLSI design houses, oil and gas corporations, media companies etc.

"Compared to Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage as a technology has a clear roadmap for the future and at one point of time convergence is bound to happen," said Gurcharan Singh, Regional Sales Director - Asia South, Auspex A/P Pte Ltd.

In India, LanBit is planning to capture 25 percent of NAS market share in the middle and enterprise segment, through its relationship with Auspex.