IBRIX today announced it has been positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant in Gartner's recently released report: Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions, 1H081. The report is Gartner’s first to evaluate and place vendors offering network-attached storage appliances as well as cluster file system vendors with native NFS and CIFS support. A leading worldwide IT research and advisory firm, Gartner evaluated vendors according to a set of criteria focused on each company's ability to execute and completeness of vision in the storage market. According to the Gartner report, "Storage administrators who have been focusing on managing their storage area networks (SANs) are facing new storage challenges, especially in consolidation of distributed file servers, the high throughput requirement of rich media and high-performance computing applications, and low-cost, easy-to-grow disk storage for bulk digital content." “IBRIX has opened a new era in scalable computing for both performance and large-scale file storage environments,” said Dr. Steven Orszag, IBRIX Founder and Percy F. Smith Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Yale University. “By parallelizing not only the data but the metadata access as well, our revolutionary file system effectively speeds data access and alleviates bottlenecks in storage environments. IBRIX Fusion’s innovative software-only file system solution offers major improvements over traditional monolithic NAS offerings and we’re honored to be cited by Gartner for what we believe is our industry-changing vision.” IBRIX’s award-winning flagship product, IBRIX Fusion, significantly improves data delivery from the storage environment to computing elements. The product’s patented architecture, called a Segmented File System, is based on the concept of “divide and conquer” and enables tremendous flexibility in scaling storage capacity and performance independently. IBRIX software offers businesses deploying high density storage architectures a scalable, bulk, tiered and archival solution for media assets, email, photos, videos and other unstructured digital content. "We believe this industry evaluation is recognition for our innovation and software-based solution’s ability to uniquely address changing enterprise storage challenges," said Milan Shetti, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, IBRIX. "We’re making our vision a reality, applying it to real-world applications with leading-brand customers that today rely on IBRIX for high throughput performance as well as bulk storage demands.” Leading storage hardware providers such as Dell, EMC and HP partner with IBRIX worldwide to serve customers that span the media and entertainment, financial services, and internet markets. The pay-as-you-grow software solution supports petabytes of storage and gigabytes of throughput in NAS, SAN, and DAS storage topologies. To view Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions, 1H08, go to: its Web site.