INFORTREND AWARDED "BEST CHOICE" DATA STORAGE PRODUCT AT COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2009
The Award Emphasizes Infortrend's Technology Leadership and Enterprise Storage Innovation

Taipei, Taiwan, Jun 2, 2009 – Infortrend, the networked storage expert, (Public TPE: 2495) today announced an exciting achievement that its brand new ESVA™ series wins the ‘Best Choice' award in the category of data storage product from Computex Taipei Design & Innovation awards 2009. It is the second consecutive year that Infortrend has won the Best Choice award. The honor proves again Infortrend's technology innovation and quality in storage solutions. 

The award-winning ESVA series is a SAN storage system built from a revolutionary concept to reinforce storage virtualization capability, performance advancement and deliver massive scalability. The innovative architecture of a ‘scale-out' storage pool, exclusively designed by Infortrend, can deliver outstanding business benefits in costs, management and productivity. Together with several other leading-edge features optimized to best performances to meet mission-critical demands for scalability, performance and availability, the new ESVA series can provide mid-range enterprise users the ability to achieve optimized returns of investment, simplify storage infrastructure and maximize application productivity to ensure a much lower total cost of ownership.

"The award underlines Infortrend's technology advancements in storage architectural design and development. The successful accomplishment of ESVA series represents Infortrend's capability not only in innovation but also leadership thought process. A ‘storage-on-demand' approach with the power of scalability, availability, data servicing and virtualization will be critical factors considered by IT managers when managing burgeoning datacenters. The ESVA series brings a new dimension to enterprise IT managers who are searching for a more cost effective storage solution that is simple and effective to administer and that delivers high levels of performance to efficiently manage continuous data growth," remarked Michael Schnapp, CTO of Infortrend Technology. 

The Computex Design & Innovation Awards 2009 set strict evaluation criteria including: Degree of Innovation, Design Quality, Workmanship, Choice of Materials, Environmental Friendliness, Functionality, Utility Value, Safety, Ergonomics, Universal Design, and Brand Value. About 400 product items provided by 170 companies joined the competition, among which forty product items competed in the category of data storage device/media. After serious evaluation by the evaluation committee, Infortrend stood out by ESVA series from fierce competition to win the Best Choice award, which serves the first laurels to the product. Visitors to Computex Taipei, from June 2 to 6, will be able to witness live demonstration of ESVA in action at Infortrend booth at Nangang Hall.

Infortrend ESVA series will be available for shipping from June 2009.

About Infortrend

Infortrend, the networked storage expert, is a pioneer in cost-effective, high performance storage products. The company provides EonStor® storage subsystems and SANWatch® software for virtually all storage interfaces including Fibre Channel, SAS, iSCSI, SCSI 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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