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| Exanet Wins over Storage Service Providers Market Exanet has reported a significant surge in its customer base in the first quarter of 2007, fuelled in large part by the introduction of its ExaStore – ICM (Intelligent Cluster Management) storage solution and an increase in adoption by storage service providers over the world. Recent SSP customer wins include Data Storage Corporation, an offsite data vaulting service bureau; Digitiliti, the leading provider of enterprise online data protection and primary storage consolidation solutions; NetStandard, a technology services provider and data centre for SMBs; and Restor-Me UK, a European service provider with locations in the UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. With hundreds of millions of files and several hundred terabytes of information hosted by these full-service SSPs, the challenge of maintaining highly available storage infrastructures in order to protect corporate data at secure, offsite locations has never been more critical. SSPs turn to Exanet to provide a reliable, easy-to-manage solution that can replace 15 different file systems with a single file system in order to better enable them to provide their customers with online disk-to-disk backup for disaster recovery, business continuity and regulatory compliance. As their customer bases continue to grow, they will rely on the scalability of the ExaStore – ICM to serve the increase in users with non-stop access to their business-critical files. Service providers recognise the value of ExaStore – ICM, a new paradigm in NAS, setting new standards for automated storage management that conquers the challenges of system operation and maintenance and dramatically drives down the total cost of NAS ownership, while significantly increase storage utilisation levels. The system's new virtual volume capability allows dynamic expansion or reallocation of storage capacity according to changing business needs, and provides an additional level of control and flexibility for capacity management and provisioning. Its performance-optimised architecture, together with its use of standard, off-the-shelf hardware, provides best-of-breed solutions for any application or budget, resulting in the best price/performance recorded by a NAS vendor. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Networking News :: home page |