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DataDirect Networks Debuts the S2A9550 - the Industry's Highest Performance Most Dense Storage System

Posted on: Thursday, 27 July 2006, 09:00 CDT

LOS ANGELES, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- DataDirect Networks Inc. today unveiled the industry's highest performing and most dense storage solution, the S2A9550. The S2A9550 storage system is specifically designed for high performance, high capacity network storage applications. Delivering up to 3 GB/s, enhanced and automated data protection, and 560TB in a single storage system, this 7th generation product provides optimal block level and file system performance for highly scalable, open system computing environments. The S2A9550 delivers the industry's best price per performance solution.

The S2A9550 storage platform is based on DataDirect's industry proven Silicon Storage Appliance (S2A) technology which fully integrates a parallel, non-blocking architecture with SAN functionality in one simple, easy to use intelligent device. The S2A delivers high performance, highly reliable storage solutions that are easy to install, easy to scale and easy to manage. The S2A's unique architecture and consolidated functionality removes the complexity, congestion, latency and contention of generic RAID systems delivering very high performance with dramatically lower total cost of ownership and improved return on IT investments.

This optimal block level and file system performance design supports a broad range of NAS and SAN solutions powering compute clusters from IBM, Dell, HP, Cray, SGI, Bull and others. Unique to the S2A9550 is its innovative hardware RAID 6 and double parity protection for enhanced data availability without impacting solution performance.

"We've designed the S2A9550 to conquer the performance, availability, scalability and management challenges in deploying cluster NAS architectures with parallel or shared file systems and storage," said Alex Bouzari, CEO of DataDirect Networks. "The S2A9550 can scale as fast and large as you need without expensive re-architecting while providing the highest levels of Quality of Service for consistent, predictable data delivery to real-life application environments."

DataDirect Networks S2A9550 Highlights: Real-time Sustained Performance - Up to five times faster than generic SAN RAID systems, the disk-based S2A9550 delivers sustained real-time performance of up to 3 GB/s. Maximum Flexibility, Massively Scalable - The S2A9550 is purpose built to offer maximum flexibility and scalability -- providing storage flexibility with support for up to 1,120 Fibre Channel (FC) and SATA disk drives. With its modular design, the S2A9550 can support the mixing and matching of FC-4 (4Gb/s) and InfiniBand-4X (10Gb/s) front end server connectivity. Enterprise Class Protection and Availability - The S2A9550 incorporates enterprise-class data protection like on-the-fly parity checking of all read I/Os, and hardware RAID 6. The S2A9550's pioneering hardware RAID 6 controller protects data in the event of a double disk failure in the same redundancy group, without adversely affecting data availability or system performance. Easy to Install, Manage and Support - The S2A9550 offers a rich set of management tools that make it easy-to-install, scale and manage a high performance, high capacity storage system. Its consolidated functionality includes block level "real-time any-to-any virtualization" for very easy deployment and ongoing system management of very large storage pools.

"The ever-increasing market acceptance of our S2A storage technology is a testament of our ongoing commitment to providing the best-in-class scalable storage solutions for compute intensive environments," concluded Bouzari. "We will continue to drive innovation with industry leading products like the new S2A9550 while further investing in our technological leadership to better serve our customers."

About DataDirect Networks

DataDirect Networks is the world's leading provider of high performance, high capacity network storage solutions. Focused on driving customer-centric innovation, DataDirect Networks has created the Silicon Storage Appliance as the essential building block for High Performance Computing, Internet-based Services and Rich Media storage solutions. DataDirect Networks' award winning Silicon Storage Appliance enables the creation of differentiated high performance, high capacity NAS and SAN storage, parallel and shared file system storage, primary and nearline storage, and virtual tape library storage solutions. Each solution offers unsurpassed performance, high availability, cost effective scalability and simplified management delivering the industry's best price per performance and best per capacity per square foot solutions.

Launched in 1998 and headquartered in California, DataDirect Networks has an established global presence with research and development, and operations in the United States, Europe and Asia. For more information, contact DataDirect Networks at (818) 700-7600 or visit http://www.datadirectnet.com/.

DataDirect Networks and Silicon Storage Appliance are trademarks of DataDirect Networks, Inc. All other names are property of their respective owners.

DataDirect Networks Inc.

CONTACT: Jay Martin of DataDirect Networks Inc., +1-818-700-7600,jmartin@datadirectnet.com; or Curtis Chan of CHAN & ASSOCIATES, INC.,+1-714-447-4993, cj_chan@chanandassoc.com, for DataDirect Networks Inc.

Web site: http://www.datadirectnet.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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