Online Businesses Turn to EqualLogic to Fuel On-Demand Services; ISPs and ASPs Deploy Intelligent PS Series SANs Designed to Meet Dynamic Business Requirements

Business Wire, July 25, 2006

NASHUA, N.H. -- EqualLogic(R), 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 is providing a growing number of ISPs and ASPs in the U.S. and Europe with a dynamic, reliable and easy-to-manage virtual storage solution designed to meet their real-time storage needs, including on-the-fly scalability, high performance and disaster-proof data protection.

EqualLogic's established ISP and ASP customers represent a range of industries offering a wide variety of services, including: 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 centers, to name just a few. Among the company's existing customers are healthcare management services providers MediSync Midwest, LLC, and Navicure, Inc.; e-commerce solution provider MyCart.net; call-center operator eTelecare Global Solutions; European on-demand storage provider Griffin Internet; Irish Internet service provider Magnet Networks; and Dutch on-line banking service provider SDC Udvikling. Among a sampling of new customers announced today are: Chicago Records Management, IT Convergence Corp., NetGain Technology, Storage Elements, and Terradon Communications Group.

"ISP and ASP organizations frequently need to expand their storage capacity as their customer base grows and their services are placed under heavy use load; complicating matters, these organizations simultaneously require quick uninterrupted access to their data," said John Joseph, vice president of marketing at EqualLogic. "EqualLogic offers these customers a solution that dynamically responds 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, our ASP/ISPs can rely on its automated intelligence to optimize 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.

Terradon Communications Group, an organization focusing on Internet, extranet and intranet software for any size organization, particularly in Web development and network security services, uses EqualLogic's PS Series to store data managed on Web sites and to protect information assets. "The amount of data we store is climbing by the minute, especially in the security and forensics areas, where we have a unique need that consumes a great deal of disk space," said Keith Morgan, chief security engineer at Terradon Communications Group. "In our forensics area we are required to maintain multiple images for long periods of time, sometimes five-to-seven years, because of the pace of the legal world. Prior to EqualLogic, we were devoting up to 80 hours per month of manpower to manage our storage; however, after the deployment of EqualLogic's PS Series SAN solution, the time has been reduced to a mere one or two hours a month."

CEO of MyCart.net Marc O'Leary, who oversees a growing e-commerce service to more than 3,000 small and large customers, says, "As an ISP gaining customers at an exponential rate, we need to guarantee our users that their information is both secure and easily accessible. EqualLogic's PS Series SAN gives us and our online-store owners a fully scalable storage grid that can expand in capacity as we require at any given point in time, while at the same time never disrupting the system."

"The implementation of the EqualLogic SAN has significantly changed many aspects of our organization, considering its effect on our data center operations," said Scott Baynes, CTO of NetGain Technology, an ASP targeting medical and clinical customers. "EqualLogic has improved our disaster recovery and backup operations while diminishing provisioning time for the deployment for new customers and creating overall administrative flexibility. To us, the genius and beauty of EqualLogic storage is its simplicity."

EqualLogic delivers a dynamic virtual storage solution to companies of all sizes running 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.