Exanet Announces ExaStore 2008 Clustered ...( ExaStore 2008 Lets eHarmony Forget...)

ExaStore 2008 Lets eHarmony Forget About Storage and Focus on Business

NEW YORK, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Exanet, the leading clustered NAS systems provider, announces the launch of ExaStore Clustered NAS 2008, designed to meet the most demanding business needs in a full range of applications and environments.

"Organizations have seen exponential growth in data and related storage requirements, creating a considerable burden," says Dr. Arnon Gat, Exanet President & CEO. "ExaStore 2008 has been enhanced to manage that burden."

Exanet's clustered NAS solutions leverage the latest microprocessors, facilitating high performance and superior energy and footprint efficiency.

eHarmony, the Internet relationship service with more than 17 million users, selected ExaStore to manage its exponential data growth; it expanded its initial system within less than two months - leveraging ExaStore 2008's automatic scalability.

"Installing ExaStore 2008, with its single file system, ease of management and high performance has already provided a significant ROI," says Cyrus Mohit, eHarmony's Director of Data Center Operations. "We are more efficiently leveraging our existing infrastructure and deploying more applications over NFS instead of iSCSI or traditional SAN. In addition, we no longer have to worry about volume management as ExaStore's ease of administration has made it a very simple, quick task."

ExaStore 2008 features scalable capacity and performance, leverages virtualized storage, and offers enterprise-class features. It independently provisions petabytes of capacity and scales performance to unprecedented levels online; its load balancing and single file system maximize storage utilization and minimize TCO.

"Organizations must find better ways to manage, protect and store file data," says Mark Peters, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. "Exanet realized companies need performance as well as ways to improve utiliza
'/>"/>