RAID Inc. and Terascala Partner

RAID Incorporated, a customized storage solution and services provider, and Terascala, developer of high throughput, high capacity, cost-effective parallel storage appliances, have entered into a strategic partnership in order to leverage Terascala’s parallel file system expertise, and to allow RAID to provide complete end-to-end storage solutions for the HPC market.

"We are extremely excited to work with Terascala to continue advancing our capabilities in the world of high-performance computing," stated Robert Picardi, Chief Operating Officer at RAID. "Terascala has a unique solution in the marketplace, the likes of which many of our customers have been asking for. Our belief is that parallel file systems such as Lustre are becoming a requirement in most high performance environments. Many customers now understand that a storage system that can deliver data to keep pace with the processors is a requirement to maximize overall performance and utilization."

Terascala has already qualified the RAID’s compact Razor system for use with the integrated, active – passive redundant metadata server architecture of their MTS 1000 solution, which provides the highest levels of performance and reliability for the most critical component of the system. The MTS 1000 is architected for maximum throughput and data availability so that applications run at peak efficiency, and delivers over 2GB/sec from a single enclosure and up to 10 GB/sec from a full rack. In addition, Terascala will be qualifying RAID’s Xanadu solution for use in their entire product line, providing unprecedented value in terms of scalability, performance, and data integrity to their customer base.

"RAID has had a reputation for years of providing the HPC and research markets with enterprise-class storage solutions at great cost points, along with extremely reliable 24×7 support," stated Rick Friedman, VP of Marketing and Product Management at Terascala. "We feel that they are in a unique position in terms of understanding our customer base and their needs, and having the ability to customize a solution to team with our storage appliances that will meet or surpass all of their expectations."