Amdahl unveils storage products to challenge market leaders

According to Amdahl, its GSS4900 general purpose storage system is the most powerful and largest product of its type on the market, holding up to 64 terabytes of data.

Peter Thompson, director of storage marketing at the company, said the GSS4900 could act as a 'ready-to-go' SAN (storage area network), to enable companies to deploy the system without having to design and configure a specialised network.

Amdahl also unveiled its StorStream offering, aimed at media companies requiring load balancing as well as storage space.

"StorStream is designed to support emerging media streaming users on the web," Thompson said. "It's a comprehensive solution - not just storage. Video-on-demand services require massive storage, recovery and backup facilities."

The media system has been trialled by Yahoo!