MILPITAS,  Calif. – July 26, 2012– PROMISE Technology  Inc.,   a leader in providing high-performance storage solutions addressing video as a  file type for the rich media market and the leader in designing cutting-edge  Thunderbolt™ enabled devices, today announced that VTrak, Pegasus and SANLink  storage offerings are fully compatible with the recently announced OS X® Mountain Lion. The new OS X Mountain Lion includes  Xsan 3, the high-performance cluster file system for accessing data from shared  storage. PROMISE VTrak and SANLink solutions are fully qualified for Mac OS X,  Xsan and Final Cut Pro as well as industry leading creative applications from  Adobe, Avid, and Autodesk which provide creative media professionals’ the  opportunity to edit like never before.

From its portfolio of high-performance video storage solutions  developed for the rich media and creative professional markets, PROMISE Pegasus, the world’s first Thunderbolt enabled storage device, PROMISE SANLink,  the only FC SAN adapter and its enterprise class VTrak family of storage  subsystems have all been rigorously tested and certified compatible. Creative  professionals can rest assured that their PROMISE storage devices are fully  compatible and ready-to-use.

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 “This is yet another example of our commitment  to our long-standing relationship with Apple in developing the best-in-class  storage solutions for Mac OS X users,” said James Lee, CEO, PROMISE Technology. “From the Audio and Video professional needing  enterprise class storage to the home user requiring external desktop storage,  PROMISE provides proven storage solutions for their broad application infrastructure. Testing  and certifying our storage solutions with this exciting new OS provide end  users full compatibility with our VTrak, Pegasus and SANLink network and  storage products.”

About Pegasus, SANLink and VTrak Storage Solutions   

• Pegasus R4 and R6 are the first 4-bay and  6-bay high performance hardware RAID solutions designed to unleash the raw  power of Thunderbolt™ technology. Thunderbolt technology is a new, high-speed,  dual-protocol I/O technology designed for performance, simplicity, and  flexibility. This high-speed I/O technology is capable of delivering a  blistering two channels of 10 Gb/s (1.25GB/s) per port of performance.   
• VTrak x30 Series RAID subsystem is a  high performance, massively scalable 8G Fibre Channel storage subsystem  designed to provide 24/7, 365 enterprise-class availability. Optimized to work  within a Mac OS X environment, the VTrak x30 Series offers up to 5.5 GB/s for  reads and 2.2 GB/s for writes. The VTrak x30 Series RAID solution was developed  to meet the mission critical needs of today’s demanding video workflows   
• SANLink adapters introduce a new  era in storage connectivity by allowing systems and devices on the SAN that  never existed before.  PROMISE SANLink enables Fibre Channel connectivity  to direct attached storage or to the SAN. Each SANLink adapter features  full-duplex capable FC ports, that automatically detect connection speed, and  can each independently operate at 1, 2 or 4Gbps.