Advanced Clustering Selects RAID, Incorporated as Primary Storage Provider

Release Date: August 22, 2006

Lawrence, MA —RAID Inc. today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Advanced Clustering Technologies. The agreement went in to effect on 8/1/2006.

“RAID takes its partnerships seriously and we are very pleased to announce the relationship with a leading high-performance cluster provider. The partnership gives our customers more choices when opting to purchase turnkey solutions, including specialized clustered solutions for the High Performance Computing market,” stated Steve Campagnone, Vice President of Sales at RAID, Incorporated.

Advanced Clustering will implement RAID storage solutions, which include FC, SCSI, and iSCSI solutions, with Advanced Clustering's Pinnacle high performance AMD and Intel based servers to meet the most mission critical performance and availability needs of its clients. Advanced Clustering is a company focused on solving complex computing issues with a variety of interconnects and price performance options which allow for a personalized approach to their market segment. In addition, Advanced Clustering is known for being a provider of one of the top 500 fastest clusters in the entire HPC market. Integrating larger and faster storage systems in partnership with RAID will allow its customers to find a single source for procuring clusters, servers, and storage under one umbrella.

“We are pleased to be working with RAID Inc. to provide reliable highly scalable storage solutions to our clients. We feel that their storage knowledge and expertise will provide additional value to our clients,” stated Shelly Matthews, Vice President of Sales at Advanced Clustering.

RAID and Advanced Clustering are currently teaming on a number of technology initiatives to improve data flow and availability in the clustering community.

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

About Advanced Clustering Technologies
Advanced Clustering Technologies is a turnkey provider of HPC and Beowulf class computing systems. It was founded in February of 2001, and is a privately held woman owned business, located in Kansas City, KS. Their technical and sales staff has over 25 years combined high performance computing experience and a comprehensive knowledge of the various cluster topologies and configurations. Advanced Clustering has provided systems to both small and large clients in the education, government, and public sectors. They provide highly customized turn-key systems with out-of-the-box usability for those clients with specialized needs that cannot be met by a standard hardware dealer. www.advancedclustering.com

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