Silicon Mechanics to Provide Shared Storage for Virtualization

Silicon
Mechanics, Inc., a manufacturer of rackmount servers, storage, and computing
hardware, announces that it has been designated as a Cloud Builder Alliance
Partner by Seagate Technology LLC.

As a Cloud Builder Alliance Partner,
Silicon Mechanics will design, integrate, and sell shared storage for
virtualization, using the Silicon Mechanics zStax unified storage appliance.
Powered by NexentaStor, a featured NAS/SAN software platform, the zStax family
of storage management solutions delivers capacity, performance,
reliable, unified storage, while lowering the TCO for cloud-based storage
infrastructures.

The zStax software-defined storage model is
deployed on enterprise, industry standard hardware. Silicon Mechanics relies on
Seagate enterprise SAS HDDs, with speeds from 7.2K to 15K RPM, for fast and
reliable storage. The zStax unified storage appliance family of products is
ideal for applications ranging from archival storage to enterprise tier 1
implementations.

Using NexentaStor, the software-only, open
architecture, hardware-agnostic storage solution, Silicon Mechanics can help
customers save 70 to 80% compared to expensive, proprietary storage
technologies. As a featured NAS/SAN software platform with capabilities that
meet and exceed those of legacy storage systems, NexentaStor’ scales further
and more cost effectively, and does not force customers to replace entire
systems as drive and IO technologies evolve over time.

"Seagate
is delighted to welcome Silicon Mechanics as a Cloud Builder Alliance Partner,
which will help them deliver custom, flexible, and scalable server and storage
solutions for the cloud," said Mark Wojtasiak, senior global marketing manager
of Seagate. "Working with Seagate’s broad
portfolio of enterprise products, Silicon Mechanics will be able to offer
custom configurations to meet any specific customer application need."