EqualLogic Employs Seagate Enterprise SATA Technology to Power New High-Capacity PS400E Storage Array; As the First iSCSI SAN Vendor to Use Seagate's 750 Gigabyte Barracuda ES Hard Disks, EqualLogic Raises the Bar for Midrange Enterprise Storage.NASHUA, N.H. -- EqualLogic(R), the leading provider of enterprise-class iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions, today introduced its new PS400E, the first iSCSI storage array to employ the 750 gigabyte One billion bytes. Also GB, Gbyte and G-byte. See giga and space/time. (unit) gigabyte - 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1024 megabytes. Roughly the amount of data required to encode a human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons). See prefix. Barracuda ES barracuda, slender, elongated fish of tropical seas. Barracudas have long snouts and projecting lower jaws armed with large, sharp-edged teeth. They are ferocious, striking at anything that gleams, and are considered excellent game fishes. enterprise SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. disks from Seagate, the worldwide leader in hard drives. The PS400E is a high-capacity enterprise performance system designed to meet the mounting storage requirements of today's medium to large businesses. EqualLogic also announced the release of Version 3.0 of its firmware A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power. Firmware includes flash, ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. When holding program instructions, firmware can be thought of as "hard software." See flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM and FOTA. , which delivers greater customer choice and control by enabling multiple pools of storage in a single SAN (see separate press release, "EqualLogic Announces New Software Platform for PS Series SANs"). The EqualLogic PS400E storage array houses 14 Barracuda ES 750 gigabyte drives within a 3U enclosure for 10.5 terabytes of raw storage capacity. The PS400E delivers best-in-class performance while providing both primary and secondary storage for database, e-mail, print, file and Web service applications. The PS400E comes with advanced data management services built into its firmware, providing a full range of performance optimization, automated management and data protection capabilities. At a U.S. list price of $66,000 for 10.5 terabytes of data storage including storage management capabilities, the PS400E offers the lowest cost per terabyte One trillion bytes. Also TB, Tbyte and T-byte. See tera and space/time. (unit) terabyte - 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 1024 gigabytes or roughly 10^12 bytes. (Note the spelling - one 'r'). See prefix. of any complete, enterprise-class SAN solution on the market today. "The data storage needs of today's enterprises are growing exponentially ex·po·nen·tial adj. 1. Of or relating to an exponent. 2. Mathematics a. Containing, involving, or expressed as an exponent. b. while IT budgets remain the same. Due to this trend, today's IT managers need high-capacity storage solutions that can manage themselves without compromising reliability and performance," said John Joseph, vice president of marketing at EqualLogic. "With the help of Seagate's leading-edge line of enterprise SATA hard drives, the PS400E storage array addresses this need head on. EqualLogic now offers a wide range of storage capacity in the most reliable enterprise-class iSCSI-based family of storage arrays available." Seagate's Barracuda ES is a new family of high-capacity enterprise drives that utilizes perpendicular recording A method of digital recording on a magnetic disk in which the bits are in a vertical arrangement instead of horizontal in order to take up less space. Also called "vertical recording," perpendicular recording is expected to materialize with areal densities exceeding 200 gigabits per technology to deliver 50 percent more storage capacity than other drives of the same class. Leveraging unparalleled Seagate enterprise expertise and technology, Barracuda ES drives boast the highest reliability of any 7,200 rpm drives in the industry and are purpose-built for 24x7 business-critical applications. Barracuda ES maximizes system availability and performance with enterprise multidrive firmware features, including Error Recovery Control, Workload Management and best-in-class rotational vibration (RV) tolerance. Barracuda ES is available in 750, 500, 400 and 250 gigabyte capacities; SATA 3Gb/s interface; and 8- or 16-Mbyte multisegmented cache. "Companies today are looking to accommodate growing data capacity demands by business-critical systems that include rich media content, reference and compliance data, as well as data protection schemes such as disk-to-disk, virtual tape, snapshots and virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. ," said Sherman Black, senior vice president and general manager, Seagate Enterprise Compute To perform mathematical operations or general computer processing. For an explanation of "The 3 C's," or how the computer processes data, see computer. . "Our latest high-capacity Barracuda ES is designed for systems like EqualLogic's PS Series SAN, which provide greater manageability of business-critical data. Together, Seagate and EqualLogic set a new standard in information management, allowing customers to grow their business-critical data without operational disruption or performance degradation." EqualLogic's PS Series of storage arrays deliver a dynamic virtual storage solution to companies of all sizes, offering a reliable, self-managing, scalable pool of storage that responds nimbly nim·ble adj. nim·bler, nim·blest 1. Quick, light, or agile in movement or action; deft: nimble fingers. See Synonyms at dexterous. 2. to user demands. EqualLogic's award-winning and data-center-proven PS Series is the only native iSCSI SAN solution to offer a comprehensive and fully integrated standard feature set at no additional cost. The PS Series provides seamless scalability for on-demand growth, automatic workload balancing within and across arrays, snapshots for instant data recovery and built in auto-replication for disaster recover in a resilient See resiliency. enterprise-class IP SAN infrastructure. Each PS Series storage array comes with fully redundant, fault-tolerant hardware and includes automatic storage-management software in a self-contained chassis. About Seagate Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disc drives, providing products for a wide-range of applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings , Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate's business model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, and to be the low cost producer in all markets in which it participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world's growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at www.seagate.com. About EqualLogic EqualLogic(R), Inc., is the leading provider of intelligent, enterprise-class iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions that enable businesses - from Fortune 100 to small and mid-size organizations in more than 30 countries worldwide - to realize the economic benefits of consolidated, self-managing storage. The EqualLogic PS Series of storage arrays, based on the company's patented peer storage architecture, is the industry's first automatic storage platform that delivers operational simplicity, comprehensive data management services and high data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. in a single, scalable pool of storage. EqualLogic's headquarters are located in Nashua, New Hampshire Nashua is a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA. As of the 2000 census, Nashua had a total population of 86,605[1], making it the second largest city in the state after Manchester. As of 2005, the population is estimated to be 87,986. . For more information, please visit http://www.equallogic.com. EqualLogic is a registered trademark of EqualLogic, Inc. 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