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— San Diego, Calif.—October 8, 2002—StoneFly
Networks™, the innovator of the first simple, intelligent,
affordable IP SAN appliances, and Alacritech, the innovator
of network accelerator solutions that enable fast and
efficient servers and storage systems, today announced that
StoneFly's new Storage Concentrators™, which combine the
functionality of an iSCSI-based storage router, bridge and
provisioning manager, seamlessly interoperate with
Alacritech's full line of TCP/IP offload accelerators.
Running in conjunction, the products provide mid-sized
enterprises with an optimized, yet simple and cost effective
method for centrally managing IP SAN environments.
By adding block-level storage intelligence to the IP
networking core, StoneFly's Storage Concentrators are the
first IP SAN appliances to market that install in minutes to
enable companies to instantly turn an IP network into a
storage network. Alacritech is the pioneer of TCP/IP offload
engine (TOE) technology, and its accelerators are well known
as providing the industry's highest performance in servers
and iSCSI (Internet SCSI) storage devices. In driving broad
IP SAN interoperability through its IP SAN Partner Program,
StoneFly has certified Alacritech accelerators as fully
compatible. Together, the cost effective, easy-to-deploy
products lower the overall total cost of ownership (TCO) for
mid-sized storage networks by eliminating server and network
bottlenecks and ensuring efficient storage utilization
through storage consolidation.
"The explosive growth in data and storage combined with
the ratification of the iSCSI standard enables StoneFly to
target an emerging multi-billion dollar IP SAN market,"
said Jeffrey Schnabel, vice president of marketing, StoneFly
Networks, Inc. "StoneFly's storage provisioning
appliances provide users with easy-to-manage centralized
pools of storage for more efficient use of storage assets.
By consolidating SAN block data using a common IP Storage
network infrastructure, StoneFly is ensuring
interoperability while breaking price/performance barriers
thereby providing the first highly affordable, managed
storage for companies and departments."
"With the current economic climate, companies are
looking to increase the life of their existing technology by
cost-effectively improving the performance in servers,
networks and applications," said Barry Haaser, vice
president of marketing, Alacritech, Inc. "By deploying
Alacritech's server accelerators, customers can easily and
efficiently access IP storage through the Stonefly Storage
Concentrator while speeding critical network applications
such as backup."
About StoneFly Storage Concentrators
StoneFly's Storage Concentrators are ideally suited for
small and mid-tier enterprises, and workgroups and
departments within larger enterprises. By using the emerging
iSCSI standard, TCP/IP and Gigabit Ethernet, StoneFly's new
Storage Concentrators add intelligent block-level logical
volume management to existing IP networks to pool existing
and new storage assets, thus providing more efficient
utilization, streamlined management, rapid deployment and
reconfiguration of storage, and reduced SAN-based backup and
restore times. Storage Concentrators feature an easy-to-use
HTML-based GUI to allow administrators to easily manage
storage operations, including controlling distributed
Storage Concentrators, centrally and securely from anywhere
on the Internet.
About Alacritech Acceleration Technology
Alacritech's accelerator product line offers small- and
medium-sized businesses choices at a number of interface
options. Customers can use the Alacritech 100x4 Quad-port
Server Accelerator for Fast Ethernet environments. Those
with Gigabit Ethernet infrastructure can choose between
Alacritech's copper and fiber Gigabit accelerators for
accelerating both file- and block-level data. Alacritech's
accelerators are the only Integrated Storage Network
Interface Cards (IS-NICs) to provide hardware acceleration
for both IP storage and standard Ethernet traffic
simultaneously.
Availability
StoneFly's i1000, i1500 and i1500FS Storage Concentrators
are available now for $7,995, $9,995 and $12,995
respectively through the company's channel distribution
partners and select resellers. Alacritech's complete line of
Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet accelerator products are
available now by accessing the company's Web site http://www.alacritech.com
or contacting the company's resellers.
About StoneFly Networks, Inc.
StoneFly Networks™, Inc. is based in San Diego, California
and was founded in April 2000 to develop simple,
intelligent, affordable IP SAN appliances that add
intelligent storage management to IP networks transforming
them into IP storage area networks (SANs). The company's
complete line of Storage Concentrators™ combine the
functionality of an iSCSI-based storage router, bridge and
provisioning manager to provide an end-to-end storage
provisioning solution that reduces the cost and complexity
of managing storage assets. Storage Concentrators are based
on StoneFly's patent-pending StoneFusion™ storage
networking architecture to consolidate and optimize data
storage to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase
return on investment (ROI). StoneFly Networks is a member of
the Storage Networking Association (SNIA) and the founding
member of the IP Storage Institute (IPSI). For more
information, please visit the company's Web site at www.stonefly.com.
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