Exanet Launches ExaStore Clustered NAS 2008

Exanet announces the launch of ExaStore
Clustered NAS 2008, designed to meet the most demanding business needs
in a full range of applications and environments.

Exanet’s clustered NAS solutions leverage the latest Intel Quad
Core microprocessors, facilitating high performance and superior energy
and footprint efficiency.

eHarmony, the Internet relationship service with more than 17
million users, selected ExaStore to manage its exponential data growth;
its initial ExaStore system was expanded within less than two months –
leveraging ExaStore 2008’s automatic scalability.

"Installing ExaStore 2008, with its single file system, ease of
management and high performance has already provided us a significant
ROI," says Cyrus Mohit, eHarmony’s Director of Data Center Operations.
"We are more efficiently leveraging our existing infrastructure and
deploying more applications over NFS instead of iSCSI or traditional
SAN. In addition, we no longer have to worry about volume management as
ExaStore’s ease of administration has made it a very simple, quick
task."

Mikros Image of Paris provides digital post-production and visual
effects for feature films and commercials. It installed its first
ExaStore for production in 2007 using Fibre Channels and recently
installed ExaStore 2008 on SATA to manage its office systems.

"We wanted to maximize ExaStore’s performance and ability to maximize
hardware," says Iounes Gardon, Mikros’ System Administrator. "Our first
ExaStore system manages our large files quickly and easily; meanwhile,
the new ExaStore 2008 system is automatically balancing our data across
its servers and disks and letting us reassign the old file servers for
other uses."

ExaStore Clustered NAS 2008 System features scalable capacity and
performance, leverages virtualized storage, and offers enterprise-class
features. It can independently provision petabytes of capacity and
scale performance to unprecedented levels online with existing
applications, while its load balancing and single file system maximize
storage utilization and minimize the total cost of ownership.

Thanks to ExaStore’s unique approach to infrastructure, it allows
IT managers to centrally configure and manage all storage on all
machines, all at the same time.

"Organizations must find better ways to manage, protect and store
their file data," says Mark Peters, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy
Group. "Exanet realized that companies need performance as well as ways
to improve utilization. It would be foolish for IT organizations,
because of constrained budgets and energy resources, not to evaluate a
system like the ExaStore, which specifically addresses information
access and system optimization requirements."

ExaStore supports petabytes of storage, allowing management of more
than 100 billion files in a single name space. Its high performance,
availability, and scalability ensure that data is always immediately
accessible at any system size, enhancing productivity.

ExaStore clustered NAS systems are available from Exanet and its
partners supporting a wide range of storage hardware. "Exanet offers
our customers a choice in storage hardware, allowing customers to
optimize their hardware purchase decisions," says Clive Surfleet,
Exanet’s Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer.

"ExaStore also responds to the highest responsibility for ‘Green
IT,’" Dr. Gat concludes. "ExaStore 2008 maximizes hardware utilization
and reduces both power consumption and footprint requirements."

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