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EqualLogic Dynamic Virtual Storage Solutions Fuel On-Demand Services

• With More Than 200% Increase in Revenue in 2005, EqualLogic Growth Demonstrates Value of Dynamic Virtual Storage Solutions for On-Demand Businesses
• Demand-Driven Storage Solutions Enable Shift to Online Services

London —22nd August, 2006—EqualLogic, the leading provider of enterprise-class iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions, today announced successful expansion among Internet service providers (ISPs) and application service provides (ASPs) in multiple industries worldwide. 

EqualLogic’s impressive growth showcases its impressive ability to provide ISPs and ASPs in the U.S. and Europe with dynamic, reliable and easy-to-manage virtual storage solutions designed to meet their real-time storage needs, including on-the-fly scalability, high performance and disaster-proof data protection. 

The continued growth of on-demand storage is due to a wide variety of market shaping forces that are transforming and enhancing Internet services, on-demand managed hosting, utility computing, remote storage and backup, online medical claims and healthcare management, e-commerce, Internet and mobile banking, wireless communications, customer support, and call center operations among others.

“ISPs and ASPs need to expand their storage capacity as their customer bases grow and services are placed under heavy use load.  More and more, these organisations are demanding instant and uninterrupted access to their data,” said John Joseph, vice president of marketing at EqualLogic.
“Customers require solutions that dynamically respond to the unique demands of each type of business, while making it affordable, self-managing and easy to scale.  The minute a PS Series SAN is deployed, ASPs and ISPs can rely on its automated intelligence to optimise performance and data protection, ensuring uninterrupted service to their customers.”

EqualLogic’s success in the ISP/ASP category demonstrates the company’s ability to provide an extraordinarily flexible and easy-to-use storage solution that adapts to the unique needs of a variety of businesses.  The PS Series SAN’s delivers a virtual storage environment that meets the real-time needs of its customers.  In addition, EqualLogic provides its customers with built-in backup and disaster recovery, ensuring the all-important business continuity for these types of operations.

Adrian Sunderland, technical director at Griffin Internet, says:  “When we were developing SANServe, we needed to be sure we could offer our customers fully secure, scalable and robust off-site managed storage with attractive service level agreements.  EqualLogic has proven itself with a truly compelling storage platform that is fast, flexible and, above all, easy to manage.  Its high degree of automation, fast uptime and sheer performance beat the competition hands down.” 

Paul Klinkby-Silver, vice president of Europe for EqualLogic, concludes: “Fast moving companies such as Griffin Internet need storage that can continue to support them as they develop and expand.  This is exactly the level of flexibility our iSCSI SAN provides.  It is reliable and scalable and will easily grow in parallel with business expansion.  Technology that is easy to implement and needs virtually no day-to-day management is a must in today’s on-demand business environment. We’re providing a storage solution that matches the dynamic nature of today’s business landscape.”

EqualLogic delivers a dynamic virtual storage solution to companies of all sizes that run sophisticated online, on-demand services.  The PS Series SAN offers a reliable, self-managing, scalable pool of storage that responds nimbly to business demands.  The award-winning and data-center-proven PS Series is the only native iSCSI SAN solution to offer a comprehensive and fully integrated standard feature set at no additional cost.  Each PS Series storage array comes with fully redundant, fault-tolerant hardware and includes automatic storage-management software in a self-contained chassis.  Multiple arrays combine to form a scalable storage grid that expands in capacity as needed without disruption.


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