Crossroads Launches StrongBox Early Adopter Program

Crossroads Systems,
Inc. launched its StrongBox Early Adopter Program by shipping their
new NAS to select members of the Crossroads
Customer Advisory Board.

The many companies participating in the program represent
numerous vertical markets, including broadcast and consumer media
entertainment, cloud service providers, consulting, finance, government, hosted
service providers, managed service providers, and manufacturing.

Following these initial StrongBox shipments, the company
plans to roll out additional shipments to program participants every three to
four weeks, with the general release scheduled for October 2011.

Designed to address the need for long-term data preservation, StrongBox serves as an online archive for
tier 3 data (defined as ‘write once and read rarely’). It presents itself to
the user as familiar hard disk storage, but combines hard disk storage (for
fast data storage and retrieval) with tape storage (for
cost-effective, long-term storage).

Introduced in April 2011, StrongBox shatters the perception that data storage technology will remain proprietary,
inflexible, high maintenance and expensive. By leveraging LTFS (Linear Tape
File System) technology, StrongBox serves as an online, real-time accessible
data vault. It acts as a standard network file system and is compatible with
any file-based system architecture. It represents a new way in the use of
tape that is cost effective, energy efficient while providing an extended shelf
life.

"StrongBox remains on schedule for the general launch,
with our Early Adopter Program well underway," said Debasmita
Roychowdhury, senior product manager at Crossroads Systems. "Ushering in a
truly new era for tape, StrongBox relieves tape of its age-long dependency on
backup applications to store and retrieve data from tape."