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Exanet Announces Compatibility With SATA RAID Arrays

Exanet Inc, a developer of ExaStore, the world's first automated, hardware-independent, information access storage system, announced that ExaStore now supports low-cost, high-capacity Serial ATA (SATA) RAID arrays. With this new compatibility, companies have a real choice in creating cost effective, yet highly available storage solutions.

Michael Chazot, vice president of sales at Exanet, said, "Exanet's unique, hardware-independent architecture allows customers to quickly take advantage of new hardware, such as SATA arrays, to reduce their cost of ownership while maintaining enterprise class reliability."

ExaStore's unlimited scalability, based on its Grid architecture, complements the scalability of the SATA hardware, allowing customers to build an almost infinitely expandable storage system. Additionally, ExaStore on the SATA solutions is OS transparent. ExaStore supports virtually every system platform, including Apple, Windows, UNIX, and Linux, and provides the standard file system APIs: NFS, CIFS and AFP to applications.

The SATA RAID solution complements ExaStore's real-time load balancing and dynamic coherent caching, optimizing system operations 24-7.

ExaStore SATA configurations also build upon its standard features, including high availability with no single point of failure, a distributed file system, dynamic, application-tuned performance, automated resource utilization tools and high-performance architecture.