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INFORTREND CELEBRATES 15 YEARS OF RAID STORAGE EXPERTISE
Installed Base of EonStor Arrays Supports Millions of Hard Drives Worldwide

Hannover, Germany, 4 March 2008 – In addition to delivering landmark products in the RAID storage industry, Infortrend® has reached a landmark of its own: 2008 marks the company's 15th year as a pioneer and leading provider of reliable RAID storage technology. With headquarters in Taiwan and offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Japan, and Germany, the company has grown significantly over the years by delivering groundbreaking products that improve data storage technology in terms of performance, reliability, and efficiency. 

To date, the company employs approximately 500 people worldwide; has supplied top-tier ODMs with 160,000 controllers and subsystems; and has shipped more than 80,000 RAID/JBOD subsystems around the globe. Infortrend's installed base of RAID arrays has the capacity to house more than one million hard drives. Its EonStor subsystems and JBODs are being used in universities, security/CCTV, medical, web, online transactions, finance, digital video applications and more.

"Infortrend RAID subsystems are able to run 7x24x365 with minimum operating risks so our staff can now fully concentrate on the application and services," said MingHung Tsai, project manager of Academic Sinica Grid Computing.

"We have installed more than 100 Infortrend subsystems since 2004. After years of operation, we have found they out-perform RAID products from other vendors. EonStor arrays are an indispensable part of our success in providing high quality Internet portal service," said Shin Chang Sup, manager of IT infrastructure planning team, KT Hitel (KTH) Corporation.

"As we celebrate Infortrend’s 15th anniversary, we would like to thank our valued customers, trusted distributors and resellers, and dedicated employees for the success we have achieved so far," said Stone Lo, president and CEO of Infortrend Technology Inc. "For the past fifteen years, Infortrend's goal has been to design and deliver products that combine leading-edge features with value and dependability. Our customers can count on us to continue to make great strides in storage technology and offer them the best products available in the RAID market for many years to come."

Partial List of Infortrend's Key Milestones

2007
  • Announced world's first external RAID subsystems using 2.5-inch SAS drives  
  • Released SANWatch, a powerful Java-based GUI RAID management software suite, including the Snapshot feature for data protection
2005
  • Introduced market'’s first SAS RAID subsystem
2003
  • First to ship native SATA 16-bay subsystem
2002
  • Infortrend Technology announces IPO on the Taiwan Stock Exchange
1996
  • Launched external SCSI RAID controllers
1995
  • Began shipping PCI-to-SCSI controllers

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 SANWatch® software for virtually all storage interfaces including Fibre Channel, SAS, SCSI, iSCSI, and SATA.  For over a decade, Infortrend has provided reliable, fault-tolerant technology to prominent ODMs, distributors, and storage integrators worldwide. The company's core competency includes performance optimized 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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Asia Pacific

Infortrend Technology, Inc.
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Germany

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UK

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