ExaStore 2008 Lets eHarmony Forget About Storage and Focus on Business NEW YORK, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Exanet, the leading clustered NASsystems provider, announces the launch of ExaStore Clustered NAS 2008,designed to meet the most demanding business needs in a full range ofapplications and environments. "Organizations have seen exponential growth in data and related storagerequirements, creating a considerable burden," says Dr. Arnon Gat, ExanetPresident & CEO. "ExaStore 2008 has been enhanced to manage that burden." Exanet's clustered NAS solutions leverage the latest microprocessors,facilitating high performance and superior energy and footprint efficiency. eHarmony, the Internet relationship service with more than 17 millionusers, selected ExaStore to manage its exponential data growth; it expandedits initial system within less than two months - leveraging ExaStore 2008'sautomatic scalability. "Installing ExaStore 2008, with its single file system, ease ofmanagement and high performance has already provided a significant ROI,"says Cyrus Mohit, eHarmony's Director of Data Center Operations. "We aremore efficiently leveraging our existing infrastructure and deploying moreapplications over NFS instead of iSCSI or traditional SAN. In addition, weno longer have to worry about volume management as ExaStore's ease ofadministration has made it a very simple, quick task." ExaStore 2008 features scalable capacity and performance, leveragesvirtualized storage, and offers enterprise-class features. It independentlyprovisions petabytes of capacity and scales performance to unprecedentedlevels online; its load balancing and single file system maximize storageutilization and minimize TCO. "Organizations must find better ways to manage, protect and store filedata," says Mark Peters, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. "Exanetrealized companies need performance as well as ways to improve utilization.It would be foolish for IT organizations, because of constrained budgetsand energy resources, not to evaluate ExaStore, which specificallyaddresses information access and system optimization requirements." ExaStore supports petabytes of storage, allowing management of over 100billion files in a single name space. Its high performance, availability,and scalability ensure data is immediately accessible at any system size,enhancing productivity. "Exanet offers customers a choice of hardware, allowing optimization ofhardware purchasing decisions," says Clive Surfleet, Exanet's ChiefMarketing & Strategy Officer. "ExaStore responds to the highest responsibility for 'Green IT,'" Dr.Gat concludes. "It maximizes hardware utilization and reduces powerconsumption and footprint requirements."
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Exanet Announces ExaStore 2008 Clustered NAS System
March 05, 2008, 10:27 p.m. EST 2 Min Read
