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Winchester Systems Celebrates 25 Years in Data Storage

Posted on: Friday, 29 December 2006, 12:00 CST

Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions company, today announced that they have completed 25 years of successful operation this month.

Founded in 1981, Winchester Systems has been providing external data storage systems that provide high performance and reliability at affordable prices. The company's flagship product, FlashDisk, is in its 9th generation and offers over 1,000,000 IOPS in its "massively parallel" configuration.

Starting with just a 5 MB disk product from Seagate, the company offered storage for users of Intel computers in 1981. Today the company offers truly open storage for all industry standard servers including Intel with Microsoft or Linux, Sun, HP, IBM and others as direct attach, SAN or NAS configurations.

"We have built a steady base of loyal customers over the years the old-fashioned way -- by carefully and meticulously helping each one succeed in achieving their goals with our products and services, "according to Mr. Joel Leider, the company's chief executive officer. "Many of our employees have been with us for 10 to 20 years or more creating a stable work environment and continuity for our customers," he explained.

"While our approach has remained steady, the products and economics have changed continuously and radically, observed Mr. Jerry Namery, the company's chief technology officer. "We now deliver 1,000,000 times more storage per dollar than we did with our initial product in 1981. This is phenomenal 74% annual compounded increase in storage per dollar or a doubling of storage per dollar every 15 months for 25 years, basically proving that Moore's law applies to external storage as well as memory," he proudly stated.

"We could not have imagined how people could use a million-fold more storage back then -- but every data intensive storage application has managed to make use of the economies of scale to do better jobs and open up new applications that were not conceivable back then," observed Leider. "Applications were just text and database - no graphics, photos, audio or video or even e-mail," he added.

Winchester Systems currently offers high performance RAID disk arrays featuring their new RAID 6 dual parity systems. Their offerings including SATA, Fibre Channel, SAS and SCSI based storage products and can viewed at: www.winsys.com.

About Winchester Systems Inc.

Winchester Systems provides network-attached storage, direct-attached storage, tiered-storage and storage area network enterprise data storage solutions. These solutions include high performance iSCSI, SAS, SCSI, SATA and Fibre Channel RAID disk arrays; tape backup devices and other high performance commercial and military grade data storage for mid-range servers including Windows, Windows Clusters, Linux, Linux Clusters, and UNIX. For more information visit Winchester Systems on the web at www.winsys.com.

Source: Business Wire

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