IBRIX Customer EMGS Receives InfoWorld 100 Award

Business Wire, Nov 24, 2008

Energy Exploration Company Honored for Innovative Implementation

of IBRIX Fusion to Meet Growing Business Demands

BILLERICA, Mass. -- IBRIX([R]) Inc., the leader in scalable file serving solutions, today announced its customer, Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS), the market leader in deep electromagnetic imaging, is a recipient of the InfoWorld 100 Awards for its innovative use of IBRIX's scalable file serving software, IBRIX Fusion. Each year, the InfoWorld 100 Awards honor 100 companies for IT projects that exemplify intelligent, creative uses of technology to meet business and technical objectives.

EMGS has seen explosive demand for the company's oceanic data collection and deep electromagnetic (EM) imaging analyses that help energy companies manage risks associated with locating oil reserves. EM surveys, processed at four EMGS locations around the globe, require extensive computational calculations. The company launched a new compute cluster, Aurora, in March 2008 to accommodate increasing demand for its surveys. Aurora is comprised of IBRIX Fusion software integrated with 1,300 Dell[TM] PowerEdge[TM] 1955 dual-core servers in addition to EMGS' original compute cluster running IBRIX on 500 dual processor Dell[TM] PowerEdge[TM] 1855 servers. The cluster also includes 106 terabytes of storage capacity across 4 EMC([R]) CX3-40 storage arrays. The updated storage environment has enabled EMGS to perform 70 trillion calculations per second.

"We are honored to be included in the InfoWorld 100 and to be recognized for our technology innovation. EMGS is committed to providing the best EM surveys to our customers and the investment we have made in our storage environment has significantly improved our end product," said Helge Stranden, IT Manager of EMGS. "With IBRIX software, we produce three times the computational workload of the previous system and deliver processor-intensive maps to customers faster than ever before."

"Breathing new life into outdated operations, advancing business goals with inventive use of technology--this year's winners demonstrate, once again, that innovative, business-minded IT is the lifeblood of successful organizations," said Jason Snyder, Senior Editor for InfoWorld.

This is the second consecutive year that an IBRIX customer has been recognized for its implementation of IBRIX Fusion to meet business objectives. Last year, AOL was honored for its use of IBRIX Fusion to support AOL MapQuest as well as its free, secure online storage service.

About EMGS

EMGS is the market leader in deep electromagnetic (EM) imaging. The company launched the EM imaging industry in 2002 with the commercialization of seabed logging, a proven exploration method that uses EM energy to find offshore hydrocarbons without drilling wells. This proprietary and patented technology has been developed over the past 10 years, and its ability to indicate hydrocarbons directly is enabling EMGS' customers to dramatically improve their exploration performance in frontier and mature provinces.

EMGS employs over 250 people from three main offices in Trondheim, Norway; Houston, USA; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The company operates the world's largest EM vessel fleet, and has conducted more than 300 surveys for many of the world's leading energy companies. Please visit http://www.emgs.com for the latest news and in-depth information about EMGS and EM imaging technology.

About IBRIX, Inc.

IBRIX([R]) delivers extreme data storage scalability and performance that helps cluster, grid, and enterprise computing environments cost-effectively harness the unstructured data explosion. Using the IBRIX Fusion[TM] software suite, enterprises can independently grow capacity and increase throughput up to 50 times at the lowest cost and highest storage density possible. Internet service providers, content delivery networks, animation rendering and visual effects companies, banks and hedge funds rely on IBRIX to increase application performance, enable storage scalability, simplify management, and reduce total cost of ownership. The award-winning IBRIX Fusion is available worldwide through leading technology partners including Dell, EMC, and HP. For more information, visit http://www.ibrix.com.

About InfoWorld Media Group

InfoWorld Media Group helps Senior IT Decision Makers choose the right technology, within the context of a cohesive strategy, for business impact at their organizations. Rather than merely covering the enterprise technology market, InfoWorld identifies and promotes emerging technology segments that add unique value for the organizations that implement them, as well as the vendors that provide those solutions. Using an integrated communications approach including online, events, research, and a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide both hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at http://www.infoworld.com.