IceWeb Selected by Virginia School District

IceWEB, Inc.
announced another order from a Virginia school district, expanding
the company’s growing presence and acceptance in the education sector as the
go-to standard.

Working with a local reseller, IceWEB placed a large multi appliance system providing primary storage for the
school system’s VMWare server infrastructure. In addition, the system
will replicate all data to an additional IceWEB 24TB backup appliance,
leveraging IceWEB’s replication technology.

"While
I typically don’t report individual sales, this one is significant in that it
illustrates all of the things we strive for and execute upon daily. This sale
provides a complex end-to-end solution in which, after an exhaustive vetting
process we replaced a ‘tier-one’ supplier. It’s in one of our key
market segments-education. We brought the deal in at the critically important
price point so necessary for educational institutions in this difficult budget
environment, and we made good margins for our reseller and for IceWEB,"
said Rob Howe, CEO of IceWEB.

"Our
technology meets or exceeds customer requirements, provides excellent value for
money, and our reseller program makes significant dollars at the point of sale
for our partners. That’s how a channel program is supposed to work, and we
provide that every day," Howe concluded.

IceWEB hybrid systems with 240GB Solid
State and IceCACHE acceleration create another layer of cache between the ARC
(Adaptive Replacement Cache) and the HDD. Called L2ARC (Second
Level Adaptive Replacement Cache), it contains data that was in the ARC but
hasn’t been accessed in a quantified period of time. When a request for data
comes in, it looks first in the ARC. If the data is not located in the ARC,
instead of going to the slow-moving, spinning hard-disk drives, the request is
automatically forwarded to the faster L2ARC layer.

In
addition, all IceWEB hybrid storage platforms feature two mirrored 60G write
optimized (Intent Cache), a write cache that uses SSDs to log calls for data to
be written to the hard disks. This allows the writes to be cached, flushed
together and then written synchronously which is much faster than
slow-performing random writes from other technologies.