SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 16, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Networked storage expert Infortrend(r) (Public TPE: 2495) today announced that their storage solutions successfully helped the Taipei Fubon Bank to implement their phone lottery-betting system, due to the outstanding data transfer rate, high reliability and scalability storage solutions that Infortrend offered. These storage solutions provide sports fans and lottery fans with a convenient way to lay their bets, which in turn enhances Sports Lottery's prevalence and attraction.
Last year, Taipei Fubon Bank beat its competitors in the specialty evaluations by a broad margin and won the operating concessions. Under the leadership of Ruei Dong Yang, vice president of Taipei Fubon Bank, his IT team deployed systems required for the Sports Lottery within six months. Completing this "mission impossible" marks a new record in Taiwan's Lottery history. Infortrend's EonStor S16F-R1430 RAID array subsystems play an important role in this achievement. In the complicated SAN (Storage Area Network) IT infrastructure with multi-layered security controls, EonStor subsystems deliver high-quality data transfer rate and reliability for lottery-betting at 500 person-time per second.
According to the legislation in Taiwan, data in lottery transaction systems have to be stored for ten years and must be always available during this time. Besides the predicted data amount for the following five years, the storage systems of Sports Lottery should be able to scale for ample capacity, meeting the rising needs resulting from the increasing bets. The redundant controller S16F arrays combine 4Gb Fibre Channel and new-generation Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology; they can not only deliver high data transfer rate, but can house SAS or SATA drives for easy configuration of tiered storage. They also support RAID5 and RAID6, providing comprehensive fault-tolerant data protection features. If additional capacity is required, the subsystem can connect to 3 JBODs, housing a maximum capacity of 64TB. All the above advantages meet the strict storage requirements of Sports Lottery information system.
"Infortrend's storage solution can best fit our security demand, and we are impressed with the high performance, high reliability and scalability," said Yang. "If we need to expand our storage system in the future, they will be our top priority choice." Thomas Kao, director of global product planning at Infortrend Technology Inc. said: "Besides developing and producing leading-edge products, we also provide various storage solutions for enterprises with different environmental needs. Customers' satisfaction is not only the affirmation of our efforts but the goal we work hard to achieve."
About Infortrend
Infortrend, the networked storage expert, is a pioneer in cost-effective, high performance storage products. The company provides EonStor(r) storage subsystems and SANWatch(r) software for virtually all storage interfaces including Fibre Channel, SAS, iSCSI, SCSI and SATA. For over a decade, Infortrend has provided reliable, fault-tolerant technology to prominent ODMs, distributors, and storage integrators worldwide. The company's core competency includes performance optimized RAID ASICs, feature-rich firmware, and redundant, high availability RAID subsystems. Founded in 1993, Infortrend is traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (Taiex), ticker number 2495. For more information, visit www.infortrend.com.