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DataDirect Networks today announced that its Silicon Storage Appliance (S2A) products have been certified for use with ONStor's 2280 NAS gateways, providing customers with a best-of-breed scalable storage solution to meet the most demanding enterprise storage requirements. The DataDirect Networks S2A product line joins more than 100 different software and hardware solutions that have been certified for interoperability with ONStor's Bobcat, the industry's most interoperable NAS Gateway solution. Leveraging the open storage architecture of the ONStor Bobcat gateways to deliver a best-of-breed enterprise-class storage solution, DataDirect Networks' S2A series is designed to make it easy for the scientific, supercomputing and broadcast communities to deploy and scale storage network infrastructures. The Silicon Storage Appliance technology has proven its robustness and reliability in many of the most demanding computing environments worldwide. When combined with the ONStor 2280, the combined system becomes a high-performance unified storage solution with exceptional scalability, throughput and simplicity. As the newest member of the ONStor Bobcat family of NAS Gateways, the Bobcat 2280 combines the industry's most scalable NAS gateway platform with a high-performance file data streaming engine that delivers accelerated performance for content-rich application environments. The Bobcat 2280's purpose-built hardware platform employs 64-bit network processors to deliver both performance and efficiency. Capable of 300MB/sec throughput, the Bobcat 2280 NAS Gateway occupies only 1U of rack height and consumes just 160 watts, resulting in significant space and power savings verses conventional file servers. "This is an excellent match combining industry leading features from two companies focused on performance," said Alex Bouzari, CEO for DataDirect Networks. "Users of applications requiring extremely high throughput levels will be pleased with the equally high level of expandability and growth." "ONStor is committed to providing solutions that consolidate enterprise file services on open SAN storage and our relationship with DataDirect Networks is a great example of our success of our belief that the open sharing of technology creates interoperability and ease-of-use that ultimately benefits our mutual customers," said Jon Toor, vice president of marketing at ONStor. "The combination of our Bobcat NAS gateways and DataDirect Networks' S2A cutting edge technology expands the opportunities for both companies by delivering a scalable, cost-effective NAS solution that addresses a wider range of enterprise customers."