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IBRIX today announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with Digital Technologies Corporation (DTC) to sell and support the IBRIX Fusion Parallel File System in Japan. The agreement provides DTC, a leading server and storage system integrator, with a software-based scalable file serving solution targeted to enterprises looking to gain increased application performance, simplified management, and improved storage utilization from their computing infrastructure. "Our customers are looking for a file serving solution that increases application performance, yet allows them tremendous scalability options for building out their server and storage infrastructures," said Shinji Kawabata, President and Executive Officer of Digital Technologies Corporation. "The addition of IBRIX Fusion to our suite of offerings gives our customers an even more powerful and scalable solution that supports any workload environment and reduces management costs by consolidating multiple file systems into a single namespace." IBRIX Fusion is a software-only, highly available, scalable file serving solution that allows enterprise system administrators to build file systems that can scale to up to 16 petabytes of capacity in a single namespace, and provide up to one terabyte per second of aggregate I/O throughput performance independently and non-disruptively. Equally applicable for both high-performance/high-throughput applications as well as metadata-intensive, small block enterprise applications, the multipurpose IBRIX Fusion file serving solution delivers I/O performance and scalability that is greater than that achieved by other file serving solutions. IBRIX Fusion is hardware, network, and protocol independent and can be deployed as either a host-installed cluster file system solution or exported over network file system (NFS), common internet file system (CIFS), or other industry standard protocols as a scalable network attached storage (NAS) solution. "Together with a team of experienced consultants, DTC brings a wealth of storage expertise and presence in the Japanese market, and we are extremely pleased to be partnering with them," said Shaji John, President and CEO, IBRIX. "IBRIX Fusion is unmatched in its ability to deliver value to the customer on multiple fronts. This partnership reaffirms our commitment to providing best-in-class file serving solutions that are hardware agnostic and work across a variety of workloads and applications."