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New Solution Provides High-Performance, High-Availability and Reliability to BladeSymphony Server Blade Customers: Neterion and its exclusive partner in Japan, Hitachi High-Technologies (HHT), the leading Japanese distributor of technology-based products, announced that they will supply the Hitachi BladeSymphony Blade Server with a new low profile 10 GbE adapter card developed by Neterion. The Hitachi PCI-X 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter is designed for space-constrained data center environments. It is compatible with both PCI-X 1.0 and 2.0 (DDR) bus interfaces for maximum throughput, and includes Neterion's Hyperframe exclusive suite of features, enabling the implementation of shared I/O in the datacenter. The adapter will be included in Hitachi's BladeSymphony BS1000 server blade platform that reduces TCO and offers investment protection with its ability to scale up and scale out, to match blade power to application performance and variable cost requirements. In addition, it offers a full suite of centralized management software. The BladeSymphony BS1000's flexible, modular design offers 8-way scalability, with up to 16 PCI-X and PCI-e slots and features both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems. "High-speed Ethernet adapters are an indispensable component to build reliable, high performance systems such as Hitachi's enterprise-class blade server platform -- BladeSymphony," stated Mr. Akio Yamamoto, General Manager of Server Development, Enterprise Server Division, Hitachi, Ltd. "This is why Hitachi will adopt Neterion's 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter for the BladeSymphony. It allows us to improve the system performance for our customers for both high-speed and bulk data transfers, further elevating the competitiveness of BladeSymphony." "We are very pleased that Hitachi BladeSymphony has selected Neterion's 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter, and is the first company in the blade server market in Japan to embrace this great new technology," noted Yasuhiro Suzuki, General Manager, Net Solutions Department, IT Solutions Division of Hitachi High-Technologies. "We expect 10 Gigabit Ethernet to play a key role in blade server performance and efficiency, which should greatly accelerate the market adoption for Hitachi's industry-leading BladeSymphony products." "Neterion is honored to have been selected by Hitachi, the leading Japanese IT technology provider," said Dave Zabrowski, President and CEO of Neterion. "Hitachi's adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet is an industry breakthrough that will greatly promote this technology in Japan. Neterion is fully committed to blade server platforms, and we designed this new low profile adapter specifically for this market segment. Our unparalleled 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology will provide BladeSymphony servers with distinct performance, size and I/O sharing advantages."