APPLICATIONS

WASHINGTON, DC -- Combating the assumption that storage area networks are a daunting, challenging prospect, DataDirect Networks will be showing a new appliance that rewrites the rules. At FOSE, DataDirect will be introducing event attendees to the company's new S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance, designed to bring affordable and simple SANs to departments and workgroups in the public and private sectors. DataDirect, the leading provider of the world's highest performance storage networking appliances, has based the new S2A 3000 line on their proven Silicon Storage Appliance technology, creating a solution that offers the leading features of their enterprise-class S2A 6000 appliances in a more compact form factor with an exceptionally attractive price point. The company will also be showcasing the S2A 6000 Silicon Storage Appliance in their booth. Customers using DataDirect's Silicon Storage Appliances include NASA, Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, U.S. Army Research Lab, White Sands Missile Range, and NCSA, among others. "DataDirect's S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance realizes the promise of storage area networks by bringing an affordable, easy to manage, plug and play appliance for federal, state and departmental workers," Brad Winett, vice president product marketing, DataDirect Networks, said. "In an era where government faces the challenge of doing more with less investment, the S2A 3000 can empower agencies with higher levels of productivity and scalability while offering the best price-performance choice in the market." The S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance is a simple to deploy, easy to manage and affordable storage network appliance that allows small to mid-size businesses to achieve application performance gains, cost-effective scalability and simplified management. Silicon Storage Appliance users have seen productivity and workflow increases of 600 percent from the underlying appliance technology, which brings compelling return on investment benefits for business. Selecting the S2A 3000 solutions for departmental use also offers companies an easy and clean migration path to DataDirect's enterprise-class Silicon Storage Appliance solutions as application and environment needs grow. DataDirect Networks has created the flexible Silicon Storage Appliances to accelerate application performance, simplify information management, and lower total costs of ownership. Each S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance supplies an aggregate bandwidth from 100 to 400 megabytes per second (depending on requirements) to workgroups typically consisting of one to eight Linux, Unix, Windows NT/2000, Sun, AIX, HP-UX and SGI compute nodes. The S2A 3000 can easily manage storage network environments ranging in capacity from 500GB to 7 Terabytes. Deploying a departmental SAN using the S2A 3000 is virtually plug and play, with users easily connecting servers and workstations into one side of the 1U high appliance and commodity-priced JBOD disks into the other side. System configuration and network virtualization is done in a quick, three-step process. Scaling of the storage network and activation of additional software modules (that are included in the S2A 3000) can be quickly and non-disruptively activated with a software key. Pricing S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance solutions (appliance plus storage) start from $39,000 (with 500 GB storage) and $49,995 (with 1 TB storage). For more information visit www.datadirectnet.com.