RAID Inc™ provides the educational industry with its first affordable comprehensive storage solution including enterprise functionality

Release date: February 3, 2005

Lawrence, MA– RAID Incorporated™ provides the educational industry with its first affordable comprehensive storage solution including enterprise functionality. In an era where educational institutions have been forced to slash IT budgets, administrators are faced with a daunting challenge; to select technology that is affordable, easy to manage with limited IT resources, and has the ability to meet growing educational storage demands.

RAID Inc's Phoenix Series addresses this quandary by offering a solution with enterprise-level features that include: Managed Snapshot, Remote Replication [synchronous and asynchronous], Virtualization, Intelligent Capacity Management, and efficient Data migration. The Phoenix simplifies storage through automated expertise and functionality, while providing scalable, robust and cost-effective solutions.

The requirement for automated expertise is becoming a paramount concern for all enterprises. “Until now, storage management features were seen as the domain of large enterprises, but there was little argument that the need for managed services existed in the educational market” stated RAID Inc's CEO Greg Morris. “As the need for storage increases, IT administrators become deeper burdened by the management piece with each new gigabyte added. Left unchecked, institutions face a serious business risk of carrying large amounts of unmanaged data. The simplification and automation of data storage systems is essential to bridge this divide” added Morris.

The Phoenix solution is designed with no single point of failure and is available in SATA , Fibre-Channel or Tiered disks with host interface options in Fibre-Channel and iSCSI. The solutions can be scaled from 500GB to 94.5TB.

When combining the Phoenix with StorageWatch®, RAID Inc.'s real-time storage monitoring and administration service, it becomes the most comprehensive business continuity solution available in the market today.

About RAID Incorporated
Headquartered in Lawrence, MA, RAID Incorporated is a managed storage services provider (MSSP) and designs customized storage systems and solutions. RAID Incorporated's flagship service StorageWatch® is the industries only real-time monitoring and managed storage service which reduces customers total cost of ownership by reducing operational costs associated with maintaining and administering storage systems while increasing data availability. Since 1994, RAID has been devoted to researching and developing leading edge technologies while providing twenty-four hour support services to become one of the industry leaders. RAID specializes in solving compute, application, and disaster recovery needs with a unique platform combining hardware, software, and services. www.raidinc.com

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