INFORTREND RAID HEAD PASSES MICROSOFT TESTING
Fibre-to-Fibre RAID Head Gets "Designed for Microsoft Windows Server 2003" Logo

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 5, 2006–RAID storage expert Infortrend® today announced that its EonStor® FF-R2021 and FF-S2021Fibre-to-Fibre RAID controller heads have passed extensive testing by the WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Lab) for base qualification of RAID systems and have attained the Designed for Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 certification from Microsoft. Qualification testing is underway for other EonStor arrays and will be announced as completed. In addition, MPIO (Multipath I/O) certification is in progress and qualification testing for other Windows programs such as Multi-cluster and Simple SAN are slated for the near future. Current details can be found on the Windows Server catalog at www.microsoft.com/Windows/catalog/server/.

“Achieving ‘Designed for Windows Server 2003’ certification demonstrates our commitment to our customers’ needs by supporting key industry platforms,” commented Tony Chu, president of Infortrend Corporation. “This logo assures IT managers that we are delivering a proven RAID array that will work seamlessly with Windows Server 2003 to make their systems more efficient, secure, and productive.”

With bandwidth up to 800 Megabytes per second (MBps), the EonStor FF-R2021 (redundant controller) and FF-S2021 (single controller) deliver tremendous flexibility, expansion, and performance for both storage area network (SAN) and direct-attached storage (DAS) environments. Their modular design minimizes maintenance time and increases scalability for demanding, high capacity SAN applications. Both products are available through Infortrend’s worldwide network of OEMs, distributors, and storage integrators.

EonStor FF-R2021 and FF-S2021 Highlights

• Fibre-to-Fibre 1U redundant or single RAID controller head
• Six adjustable FC-2G channels route to 12 Fibre ports and can be selected as host, drive, RCC, or drive+RCC channels
• Best end-to-end I/O performance in a RAID5 configuration:
  • Sequential Reads: 740 MBps
  • Sequential Writes: 502 MBps
  • troubleshooting guides
• Support for up to 224 drives by cascading as many as 14 Infortrend JBODs
• Redundant, hot-swappable components

About Infortrend

Infortrend is a leading provider of cost-effective, high performance storage networking solutions.  The company’s products include EonStor storage systems, and RAIDWatch® software for virtually all storage interfaces including SAS, SCSI, iSCSI, SATA and Fibre Channel.  With exceptional expertise in firmware, driver, and ASIC design, Infortrend manufactures and markets feature-rich products through a worldwide network of OEMs, distributors, and storage integrators for high availability storage applications.  Founded in 1993, Infortrend is traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (Taiex), ticker number 2495.  For more information, visit www.infortrend.com.

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