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EqualLogic, the leading provider of complete, intelligent iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions, today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Western Scientific, a global provider of quality systems and services for the high-performance computing marketplace. Western Scientific will integrate EqualLogic's PS Series platform into its broad range of high-performance computing and storage solutions, allowing its customers to benefit from an efficient, cost-effective and easily managed data storage environment. Western Scientific is recognized for providing reliable computing clusters, data storage, workstations, and networking solutions to Fortune 50 corporations, scientific research facilities, government and educational institutions, oil and gas exploration firms, and entertainment and media production companies. Western Scientific selected EqualLogic's PS Series arrays for a reliable storage solution that scales in performance while being simple to deploy and administer. Fifteen thousand customers worldwide count on Western Scientific's state-of-the-art computing environments designed to keep pace with the data-intensive demands of extreme computing environments such as 3-D animation, space exploration, financial modeling and geophysical analysis. By partnering with EqualLogic, Western Scientific can continue to deliver to its customers the latest technology, the best performance and the greatest computing and storage capacity for their money. "Our partnership with EqualLogic expands our market opportunity and allows us to offer our customers a new storage platform universally recognized for its innovation and performance," said Tom Johnson, president and CEO of Western Scientific. "Not only is the PS Series an enterprise-class storage solution that delivers excellent performance and data protection, but it is backed by the same commitment to customer service that has made Western Scientific successful for 26 years." "With EqualLogic's high-performance and high-availability storage architecture, Western Scientific customers gain the capabilities they need to provision storage on demand in an intelligent and simple-to-administer system," said John Joseph, vice president of marketing at EqualLogic. "Our partnership with Western Scientific is a natural extension of our mutual commitment to understanding customer needs and delivering a complete solution." EqualLogic's 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 full-featured automatic storage-management software in a self-contained chassis. Multiple arrays can be combined to form a scalable enterprise storage grid of more than 100 terabytes.