INFORTREND JOINED SOLTEC AT DATA STORAGE SEMINAR
Presentation Focused on Data Management for the Small/Medium Enterprises

TAIPEI, TAIWAN December 08, 2005—RAID storage expert Infortrend® today announced that it joined with SOLTEC Japan to give a presentation to IT managers and data storage professionals at JDSF Data Storage World held November 29, 2005 in Tokyo,  SOLTEC Japan introduced its SAN and NAS solution packages that incorporate Infortrend’s EonStor® RAID storage subsystems and discussed vital topics such as data security, storage expansion, accessibility, and performance. The event was sponsored by the Japan Data Storage Forum (JDSF) as part of their efforts to increase data storage systems integration and support developing markets in the storage industry.

“As a system integrator, SOLTEC is always looking for innovative storage products to help our customers effectively manage, share, and protection of data environments with high availability feature,” commented Yoshihiro Teramoto, general manager of Storage Solution Davison at SOLTEC Japan. “Infortrend’s EonStor subsystems, such as the new F16F-S/R2021 and A16F-G2422, both leverage IT environment as high performance and feature-rich class of Storages.  They come with redundant, hot-swappable components, and battery backup and UPS support so we know we’re giving our customers the highest level of data reliability and availability by using with our ExScale Redundant NAS package.”

“Infortrend values the opportunity to partner with SOLTEC at this conference,” added Fred Tu, Sales Director of Infortrend. “We strive to be first to market with the latest advancements in RAID storage technology and our joint presentation gave system administrators a great opportunity to learn how they can bring fault-tolerance and massive expansion capabilities to their small and midsize enterprise and departmental installations.”

EonStor F16F-R/S2021 Highlights

• End-to-end I/O performance in RAID5 configuration
  - Sequential Reads: 725MB per second (MBps)
  - Sequential Writes: 487MBps
• Full-featured single or redundant controller(s) with six FC-2G channels; transfer rate up to 2Gbps each
• Twelve 2Gbps Fibre ports; four are host/drive adjustable
• Highest redundancy level with separate host and drive I/O boards
• RAID controller supports up to 2GB DDR RAM DIMM module
• Support for up to 248 drives by cascading up to fourteen JBOD enclosures
• SAN-ready subsystem provides daisy chaining and clustering capabilities

EonStor A16F-G2422 Highlights

• Dual FC-4G achieves host channel data bandwidth up to 1600MBps
• Leading end-to-end I/O performance in RAID5 configuration:
  • Sequential Reads: 510MBps
  • Sequential Writes: 350MBps
• Cluster two file servers without an expensive Fibre Channel switch
• Support for up to 2GB capacity DDR RAM DIMM module
• Highest density in a 3U chassis—up to 8TB storage capacity using SATA drives
• Support for optional BBU and UPS ensure data security

About SOLTEC Japan

With a mission to explore new concepts and solutions, SOLTEC is a strategic enterprise partner that offers a collaborative approach and an adaptive storage infrastructure to help their customers achieve greater business agility and a competitive advantage. The company provides mid-enterprise storage system consulting services to design network storage infrastructures and delivers scalable, high performance SAN DiskArray system and today we deliver our designed NAS heads combination as well as customized servers to meet the needs of next IT environment. SOLTEC Japan is located at 1-10-1, Koma, Naka-gun, Oiso-machi, Kanagawa-ken, 255-0001, Japan. For more information, go to www.sol-tec.co.jp.

About Infortrend

Infortrend is a leading provider of cost-effective, high performance storage networking solutions. The company’s products include EonStor® storage systems, EonRAID® controllers, and RAIDWatch® software for virtually all storage interfaces including SAS, SCSI, iSCSI, SATA and Fibre Channel. With exceptional expertise in firmware, driver, and ASIC design, Infortrend manufactures and markets feature-rich products through a worldwide network of OEMs, distributors, and storage integrators for high availability storage applications. Founded in 1993, Infortrend is traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (Taiex), ticker number 2495. For more information, visit www.infortrend.com.

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