STORAGE

Rackable Systems today announced it intends to divest its RapidScale line of storage solutions. This business line includes patents, hardware assets, a development team and on-going business relationships. The RadipScale solution delivers high levels of performance while improving capacity and performance scalability, ease of data management and capacity utilization. RapidScale’s clustered file system solutions provide high performance I/O connectivity between servers and commodity-based storage subsystems. The product highlights include:

• Truly parallel architecture for near-linear scaling, making it possible to build very large storage clusters that scale in both capacity and performance, while maintaining simple management and low cost
• Patent portfolio covering key technology differentiators including the management of local client cache buffers in a clustered computer environment, methods for retrieving and modifying data elements on a shared medium, and methods and systems for network storage device failure protection and recovery
• Distributed Parity Engine offering high availability which ensures the entire global file system will stay available even during the failure or outage of an entire storage target
• World-class engineering team with over 200 years of combined experience across clustered file systems, block level storage, backup facilities, iSCSI and open source

As discussed on the company’s recent Q2 earnings call, the decision was made to seek strategic alternatives for the RapidScale product and thus Strategic Advisory Services International, LLC has been retained as the financial advisor. Rackable Systems’ storage portfolio also includes Linux and Microsoft Windows ready Integrated and Network Storage Servers, which provide incredible configuration flexibility and leading levels of power efficiency and density. Available with a choice of AMD or Intel processors, a variety of chassis profiles including Half-Depth and Standard-Depth, 2U or 3U rack-mount chassis, and up to 18 hot-swap SAS or SATA II disk drives, these solutions significantly lower operational costs at the data center level.