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RAID Announces General Availability for Tiered Storage System
Magellan to Support SAS/FC Host and SAS/SATA Disks to Address Data Center Flexibility
| Source: Raid Incorporated
METHUEN, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- January 17, 2007 -- RAID today announced that it has released its
Magellan 60-tiered
disk solution which will begin to ship in volume on February 1st, 2007.
RAID Inc.'s storage solutions are used in a variety of mission critical
applications. "We have a solid reputation of providing our customers with
best-in-class and fully integrated storage solutions that are purposely
built for compute intensive environments. Rock-solid construction, high
sustained performance, high availability, scalability and flexibility are
key requirements," said Robert Picardi, Chief Operating Officer of RAID
Incorporated. "Magellan products deliver on all counts, and with our 24x7
support model and managed services, we are confident that many of our users
will see an extreme benefit of using both high performance SAS drives and
lower cost enterprise SATA drives to help better consolidate their data."
The Magellan series supports single or dual 4Gbit FC or 3Gbit SAS
controllers with up to 60 SAS and/or SATA disk drives to balance
performance and latency requirements for a very wide variety of
applications, including replication and disaster recovery environments.
Currently, RAID has qualified 36, 73, and 146GB 15k SAS drives and plans on
finalizing the qualification of 300GB 15k SAS by the end of the first
quarter. In addition, the systems support 250, 300, 400, 500, and 750GB
SATA-2 disk drives. Drives can be configured to balance performance with
capacity and cost points which will give users some of the best flexibility
ever delivered in a cost effective storage system that can be configured to
have no single point of failure.
"By scaling the system to up to 60 drives today and with our intent of
reaching over 100 spindles by the end of the year, we have achieved to
deliver a very unique and flexible product to the market," Picardi
continued.
"Development efforts are already beginning to look at 8Gbit FC and 6Gbit
SAS and SATA technologies so we are confident that this product, similar to
our X-class and Falcon series, will ensure long term investment and
upgradeability. Users now have a choice to move away from the limitations
of SCSI-based storage systems. Customers who have invested in a Fibre
Channel backbone can connect the Magellan into any standard infrastructure
without the worries of back end FC loop related issues while moving to a
serial disk topology," stated Tad Gambiza, Chief Engineer for RAID.
Magellan is available with RAID's StorageWatch® managed services package
and offers compact 2U / 12 disk expansion systems up to 60 total disks.
Multiple Magellan systems can also be used together to achieve larger
capacity and for software- and hardware-based replication and disaster
recovery initiatives.
About RAID Incorporated
Headquartered in Methuen, MA, RAID Incorporated is a managed storage
services provider (MSSP) and designs customized storage systems and
solutions. RAID's flagship service StorageWatch® is the
industry's only real-time monitoring and managed storage service which
reduces customers' total cost of ownership by reducing operational costs
associated with maintaining and administering storage systems while
increasing data availability. Since 1994, RAID has been devoted to
researching and developing leading edge technologies while providing
twenty-four hour support services to become one of the industry leaders.
RAID specializes in solving compute, application, and disaster recovery
needs with a unique platform combining hardware, software, and services.
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