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DataDirect Networks has expanded its full range of online solutions to include Nearline solutions for High Performance Computing and Rich Media environments. Designed for HPC and Rich Media, DataDirect Networks' Nearline S2A SATA solution is 10 times more scaleable than other RAID storage systems. With multiple levels of redundancy and continuous on-the-fly data protection, the S2A nearline solution delivers enterprise-class reliability with ATA drive cost. DataDirect Networks' nearline solution is a combination of its industry leading Silicon Storage Appliance (S2A 9500) and a volume metric efficient 48 SATA drive package. The S2A 9500 with its built in intelligence delivers continuous data protection with no loss in performance allowing high performance and rich-media environments to implement a reliable enterprise-class nearline solution that can scale up to 480 TB nondisruptively. DataDirect Networks' Nearline S2A SATA solution allows High Performance Computing and Rich Media organizations to build cost-effective highly scalable secondary storage in the smallest footprint available. This volume metric efficienc delivers lower cost in terms of storage purchases and operating expenses. Create worry-free disk-based solutions for nearline storage and archive, fixed content and large file storage, backup and recovery systems, and nearline production storage for important but infrequently accessed data. Nearline S2A SATA storage solution integrates seamlessly with existing storage investments allowing IT managers to optimize their storage infrastructure to maximize the use of their existing storage and extending its useful life. "We selected DataDirect Networks' high density storage solution to create a storage infrastructure that is more flexible, allowing NCSA to better match the performance of the storage to the application. Not all HPC applications really need high performance storage, allowing NCSA to move better suited data to less expensive disks and reallocating HPC storage capacity," said Michelle Butler, Technical Program Manager of the Storage Enabling Technologies Group at NCSA. "This type of reliable, flexible and efficient storage infrastructure allows us to reduce disk purchase costs and operating costs." "HPC and Rich Media organizations are faced with never ending data growth. Adding more primary disk capacity to manage data growth is a costly strategy, and tape does not have the access speed needed to meet production data needs," said Alex Bouzari, CEO of DataDirect etworks. "Delivering a storage solution that can sit between the two balancing production and storage requirements in terms of reliability, accessibility, performance and costs allows IT managers to rationalize their storage infrastructure to maximize the use of their existing storage as well as extending its useful life." Over the last three years, DataDirect Networks has achieved an astounding 150 percent growth in the storage capacity shipped to its HPC and Rich Media customers, becoming the storage of choice for many government and defense, academia and research, and broadcast, digital roduction and imaging industries.