Astute Networks Receives Best of Show Award at AdvancedTCA Summit Conference.Astute Networks' Caspian 10Gb iSCSI ATCA See AdvancedTCA. Storage Blade Honored at Best of Show Awards SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- Astute Networks, an industry-leader in the development of high performance networked storage solutions for mission-critical applications, received the Best Newcomer Product award from the AdvancedTCA Summit Conference in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . The Best of Show Awards were announced and presented Wednesday, October 17, 2007 on the Expo Hall Expo Hall is an indoor arena located at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, Florida. The arena was used by the National Hockey League's Tampa Bay Lightning during the team's first season in the league in 1992-1993. floor at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Newly announced president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Astute Networks, Clark Masters Clark Masters (born 31 May 1987, in Hastings, England) is an English footballer currently playing for Welling United on loan from Brentford. Masters' position is goalkeeper. , and Mike Heumann, vice president of marketing and sales, were on hand to receive the award from Ernie Bergstrom, president, Crystal Cube Consulting. Astute Networks' Caspian storage blade was chosen by a panel of industry experts for its merits in three criteria including distinctiveness of the product, central use of AdvancedTCA, and technical and business application of the product. "We are very honored to receive this award from a distinguished industry forum such as the AdvancedTCA Summit Conference. It validates the design decisions we made, and that the product we developed solves real problems for our customers," said Clark Masters, president and CEO of Astute Networks. "This really caps an exciting week for Astute Networks, as we publicly announced the Caspian storage blade on Tuesday, and have met with many key industry people here at the conference." The awards panel was chaired by industry veteran Ernie Bergstrom who said, "It is always impressive to see leading edge technology coming to market. Judging them side-by-side can be challenging. The panel concluded rather easily though, that Astute Networks' design of a 10Gb iSCSI ATCA storage blade was not only a great idea, but was very well executed." The Caspian ATCA storage blade is the first 10Gb iSCSI ATCA storage blade optimized for the telecom CO and MSC (1) (MSC.Software Corporation, Santa Ana, CA, www.mscsoftware.com) Founded in 1963 by Richard H. MacNeal and Robert G. Schwendler, MSC is the world's largest provider of mechanical computer aided engineering (MCAE) strategies, simulation software and services. environments. The blade delivers the performance of Fibre Channel rack-mount storage with the density and deployment advantages of ATCA. Dramatic revenue increases per Telco frame are realized by reducing the footprint of external storage in ATCA systems, allowing a net increase in server blades per frame. In addition, equipment acquisition and deployment costs are significantly reduced by eliminating expensive HBAs and cables required to connect external storage. This pioneering design enables telecom carriers and NEPs to recognize the full benefit of migration from rack-mount servers to blades. Astute Networks is a member of the PICMG An industry consortium that develops specifications for backplanes and interconnects for electronic equipment in the industrial and telecom fields. It was founded in 1994 as the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group, hence the acronym. , which publishes the specifications for AdvancedTCA. PICMG is a consortium of over 450 companies who collaboratively develop open specifications for high performance telecommunications and industrial computing applications. The members of the consortium have a long history of developing leading edge products for these industries. About Astute Networks Astute Networks develops industry-leading high performance networked storage solutions for mission-critical applications. Founded in April 2000 and headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Astute Networks is backed by venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] including Tallwood Venture Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF) is a venture capital firm that was established in 1981 by L.J. Sevin and Ben Rosen. SRF was involved in the financing of ArQule, CIENA, Citrix, Cypress Semiconductor, Electronic Arts, Lotus Development Corporation, Silicon Graphics, and Vitesse. , Scale Venture Partners, KeyNote Ventures, and U.S. Venture Partners. Additional information is available at www.astutenetworks.com. |
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