Starting at under $600, small businesses and other customers can use Iomega NAS products with VMware to reduce costs and business risk.
"Iomega is proud to have our NAS products be among the first storage products of this class to be VMware Ready Certified to enable small business entities and other work groups to enjoy the efficiencies of a VMware platform," said Jonathan Huberman, president of Iomega and the Consumer and Small Business Products Division of EMC.
"The StorCenter ix2 and ix4 can now be the low cost platforms for VMware environments at businesses that might never have been able to take advantage of virtualisation to save money and increase computing efficiencies.
"Now small businesses, remote offices and other work groups can unleash the power of virtualisation to fuel the success of their businesses," he added.
Parag Patel, vice president, alliances, VMware, said that now the Iomega StorCenter ix2 and ix4 are VMware ReadyCertified, a new set of customers can take advantage of its 'simplicity, manageability and reliability' that VMware Infrastructure delivers.
"There are many businesses worldwide with fewer than 100 employees who want the full range of operational benefits and cost savings that the VMware platform offers, including the use of shared storage," he said.
"Iomega's solutions put shared storage within reach of these businesses."