Iomega offers several devices for small and medium size businesses that allow an organization to fulfill file storage requirements without breaking the budget on a larger, more complex appliance.  These storage appliances are also very useful when file storage is required at a remote office or branch.  In this scenario a larger storage device would be costly, and underutilized.  While Iomega's StorCenter devices may meet NAS (Network Attached Storage) requirements, they fall short if asked to perform disaster recovery operations which are essential for a company of any size.  Recently, Iomega began offering their more premier appliances with an installed EMC Avamar client.  This is certainly a step in the right direction, but some businesses may not be able to afford the cost associated with these devices, or an EMC Avamar infrastructure.

Currently, lower-end Iomega StorCenter appliances come with two default file copy options.  One is by using the Linux rsync protocol.  This works well when backing up to another Iomega device, but is incapitable with other EMC storage devices which makes this useless for a company looking to use an Iomega StorCenter appliance in a remote office, and back the files up to a larger storage appliance such as an EMC VNX.  Iomega's answer to this limitation is the Windows File "Copy Job".  The process of transferring files via the standard copy job involves a destination and target "pre-scan" that detects new files, then transfers these files over the network to the remote CIFS share which could be a Windows file server or a larger storage appiance with a