INFORTREND SHOWS COMMITMENT TO CONTINENTAL EUROPE WITH ESTABLISHMENT OF INFORTREND DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
Leading Provider of RAID Storage Solutions Expands Direct European Presence

Basingstoke, UK — 19th February 2007–RAID storage expert Infortrend® announced today the opening of its German operations in Munich. Following significant market share growth across Europe through its established network of channel partners, Infortrend decided to set up an office in central Europe to provide more effective support to its distributors and resellers based in Germany and neighbouring countries.

‘Over the past 18 months Infortrend has experience a dramatic growth throughout Europe thanks to our wide-ranging portfolio of RAID solutions featuring the latest and most effective technologies available today,’ said Tony Perng, Managing Director of Infortrend Europe. ‘The extremely high level of flexibility our products offer enables the channel to create bespoke solutions for their customers and through the establishment of a German office we are looking to both support our local distributors and resellers more closely and increase our market share further.’

Infortrend was the first vendor to introduce RAID subsystem featuring both SATA and SAS technologies to provide improved reliability, scalability, and availability. Infortrend’s flagship solutions include:

• RAID Subsystems: EonStor®
  Offering the highest levels of performance and fault tolerance in the RAID market the EonStor range includes 1U, 2U, 3U, and 4U to MassCube, supporting RAID levels 0, 1(0+1), 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, NRAID and JBOD
  
  
• Management Software: RAIDWatch®
  RAIDWatch Manager is a tailored, full-featured, cross-platform, RAID management software program that provides a user-friendly interface, which graphically represents disk array elements and simplifies the normally complicated process of array configuration;
  
  
• Multipathing Software: EonPath®
  EonPath provides multipath I/O functions by recognising and managing the redundant paths to an individual RAID volume. EonPath reaches beyond storage hardware to provide the coordination among network components and operating systems. Greater reliability is achieved through the path failover mechanism in the event of cabling component failure.

 

‘RAID protected disk keeps growing in Europe, becoming even more dominant as customers in many industries such as telecommunications, research and financial services demand the protection RAID offers as a must,’ said Claus Egge, Program Director, European Storage Research at analyst firm IDC. Mr. Egge continued ‘RAID is mostly taken for granted these days, yet savvy customers pay attention to the various RAID features on offer and select their supplier for having a portfolio offering choice of features, flexibility and price.’

Axel Luedecke, Director of Sales and Marketing for Infortrend Deutschland said ‘Infortrend couples flexible, reliable, state-of-the-art products with a very strong channel and hence is set on the ideal path to further, steady growth. Throughout Europe there is still great potential for RAID technologies and I am confident Infortrend will continue to increase its market share.’

About Infortrend
Infortrend, the RAID storage expert, is a pioneer in cost-effective, high performance networked storage. The company’s products include EonStor® storage systems and RAIDWatch® software for virtually all storage interfaces including SAS, SCSI, iSCSI, SATA and Fibre Channel.  For over a decade, Infortrend has provided reliable, fault-tolerant technology to prominent OEMs, distributors, and storage integrators worldwide. The company’s core competency includes performance optimised RAID ASICs, feature-rich firmware, and redundant, high availability RAID subsystems.  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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