SageCloud and Avnet’s Rorke Global Solutions Sign OEM Agreement

SageCloud Inc., in reliable
storage systems at disruptive price points for archival, backup and big data,
and Rorke Global Solutions (RGS), a
business unit of Avnet Embedded, a division of Avnet
Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet,
Inc., announced a relationship to jointly bring to market new, petabyte-scale
storage solutions for cold data.

Rorke Global Solutions will deliver these storage system solutions, which
integrate SageCloud’s system software with open standards-based
hardware and complimentary support services to custom-tailor solutions for
specific data center environments.

Storage is growing at 60% per year and consuming an increasing portion of
constrained IT budgets. Industry experts believe that as much as 80% of that
data qualifies as cold data – data that does not require active storage because
it is written once and accessed infrequently. Large data consumers and industry
groups, like the Open Compute Project (OCP), are promoting energy-efficient,
open standards computing and hardware approaches that lower costs, reduce
energy consumption and support scalability of cold storage.

Rorke Global Solutions, together with SageCloud, will leverage OCP,
field-tested open source software and open hardware standards to deliver a reliable cold storage system – on disk – that approaches the cost of storage on
tape. The combined solution will be offered as a solution for IT
storage professionals who are operating their own data centers or for ISP’s
seeking to improve the cost efficiencies of their cold storage service
offerings.

The solution is designed for market segments that generate
greater than one petabyte of cold data, and that require backup, archiving and easy
scale-out of their environments. Target groups include financial services,
media and entertainment, and healthcare firms.

"By combining SageCloud’s software
leadership and cold storage expertise with Avnet’s integration, certification
and service capabilities, we can offer our customers a best-in-class cold
storage system," said John Salemme, VP of OEM sales, Avnet Embedded.
"The Rorke Global Solutions storage
system powered by SageCloud is a natural extension of our storage portfolio,
our storage knowledge base and our active support for the emerging Open Compute
Project (OCP) standards."

"With this relationship in place, IT and ISP customers will
have solutions that dramatically lower their storage costs," said Jeff
Flowers, SageCloud founder and CEO. "As
storage costs and requirements outstrip IT budgets, particularly as a result of
big data platform adoption, affordable cold storage is a must-have. We look
forward to teaming with Rorke Global Solutions to meet this pressing industry
need."

Rorke Global Solutions storage systems, powered by SageCloud software, are
currently in beta testing and will be available in the first quarter of next
year. The RGS/SageCloud Priority Program will be accepting new beta
participants until mid-September.

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