EqualLogic Joins New Serial ATA International Organization

Business Wire, Sept 9, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO -- EqualLogic(R), Inc., a leading provider of iSCSI-based, self-managing networked storage solutions, today announced that it is transferring its membership in the SATA Working Group to the new Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO), maintaining its active participation in the development, deployment and future enhancement of Serial ATA drive technology. EqualLogic joins industry leading partners, including Maxtor, Seagate, Hitachi, and Western Digital among others, in its commitment to the new organization.

SATA-IO was formed by the founders of the original SATA Working Group to continue its mission as an official incorporated entity. The new organization will take on the tasks of maintaining SATA specifications, promoting and marketing the technology's benefits and creating future interface features and specifications that will carry storage into the next decade.

"As an early adopter of SATA technology, EqualLogic intends to remain actively involved in all aspects of SATA's maintenance and evolution as an enterprise-quality disk-storage technology," said John Joseph, vice president of marketing of EqualLogic. "Our PeerStorage(R) array deploys the latest SATA drive technology in an intelligent, modular SAN platform that medium-size companies can afford and large enterprises can rely on for business-critical applications."

EqualLogic is the only standards-compliant IP SAN solution provider to offer a comprehensive and fully integrated standard feature set at no additional cost to the customer. Each PeerStorage Array 100E supports up to 3.5 terabytes of storage capacity, comes with fully redundant fault-tolerant hardware and includes full-featured automatic storage-management software. Up to 32 arrays can be combined to form a scalable enterprise storage grid of more than 100 terabytes.

About EqualLogic

EqualLogic is the leading provider of iSCSI-based, all-inclusive storage area network (SAN) solutions that enable businesses - from Fortune 500 to small and mid-size organizations - to realize the economic benefits of consolidated, self-managing storage. The company's flagship product, the PeerStorage(TM) Array 100E, is the industry's first automatic storage platform that delivers operational simplicity, functional integration, and high data availability in a single, scalable pool of storage. EqualLogic's headquarters are located in Nashua, N.H. For more information, please visit http://www.equallogic.com.

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