Microsoft Windows Team Uses RAID Inc.’s 4U 60-Bay SAS/SATA Enterprise JBOD

RAID Inc. announced that the Windows Team at Microsoft Corp.
used its 4U 60-bay SAS/SATA EBOD (enterprise-class JBOD) devices with
its Windows Server 2012 Datacenter OS to build a scalable storage solution and deliver new
Windows builds to quality assurance teams across the company.

The Windows Team is currently using 14 of
RAID Inc.’s 4U 60-bay SAS/SATA EBOD drive enclosures with 60 3TB near-line SAS disks, which provide the team with 1.1PB of storage.
Ultimately, there will be 20 of these servers in place, providing 1.5PB of
storage, and when its Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces infrastructure is
complete, the team will be able to reduce the total number of servers that
manage storage from 120 to 20.

Jeremy Russell, senior development lead, US
Windows engineering team at Microsoft, said: "With Storage Spaces, we have the functionality of a SAN without the
cost of a SAN." Russell goes on to say, "We’re able to use commodity
hardware to achieve the same functionality at a far lower cost."

RAID Inc. is one of the companies that has
worked with Microsoft throughout the development of Windows Server 2012 Storage
Spaces and has achieved certification.

"Our current line of certified and
cost-effective EBOD solutions combined with Storage Spaces is helping Microsoft
to get more capabilities for every storage dollar all the while reducing the
overall amount of physical storage," said Bob Picardi, CEO of RAID
Inc.

RAID
Inc. is committed to developing newer hardware technology in support of Windows
Server 2012 Storage Spaces. The roadmap will include EBODs with 12GB sas backplane
with higher density and smaller front print for both SSD and spinning disk
technologies. Also, the introduction of PCIe SSD EBOD will be launched later
this year.