Hsinchu Taiwan / Milpitas CA – August 9, 2012 - Leveraging the success of its  award-winning unified storage solution for SMBs, PROMISE  Technology introduces the VessRAID  2000 series, a brilliantly designed solution that consolidates both block and file storage onto  a single platform, providing small to medium businesses a cost-effective  way to meet performance goals while simplifying administration. The VessRAID 2000 is designed to meet a diverse range  of storage requirements, including addressing the growing challenge of  unstructured data, and meeting the needs of users demanding a redundant,  high-capacity archiving solution. Additionally and especially, the VessRAID  2000 is optimized for data-intensive industries including midsize to large  scale surveillance installations or cloud data-center where downtime is  unacceptable and where large external storage capacity, support for on-demand  expansion, long retention periods, and reliable high bandwidth throughput are a  must.

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“PROMISE  Technology is aiming to provide our customers the best cost/performance storage  solutions to handle the ‘Big Data’ challenges. Like all of our products, our  new VessRAID 2000 series was meticulously designed to address our customers’  most pressing requirements,” says James Lee, CEO, PROMISE Technology. “The  VessRAID 2000 has all the hallmarks of a great customer-oriented solution from  PROMISE: amazing flexibility, incredibly simple and efficient management, extremely  fast and reliable performance, and all at a competitive price point. Most  importantly, it will be a virtually customized solution to meet the needs of  users. ”

CUTTING-EDGE UNIFIED STORAGE SOLUTION
The VessRAID 2000 3U16-bay series are cutting-edge  dual active-active high availability 8Gbps FC and 1 & 10Gbps IP SAN  solutions for SMBs that are engineered to deliver total component redundancy,  impressive performance, and proven reliability for mission critical  applications at a cost-effective price. Consolidating both block and file  storage onto a single platform, the VessRAID 2000 streamlines administration  and adds simplicity, flexibility and efficiency, making it an excellent investment for small to medium businesses and organizations of all sizes. In  addition, the VessRAID 2000 supports the newly released, highest capacity 4TB  hard disk drives which allows each single storage node to scale up to an  impressive 448TB of raw capacity through cascading expansion JBOD units.

LEADING EDGE TECHNOLOGY
The VessRAID 2000 introduces several new exciting technologies,  including ‘PerfectRebuild’, an innovative feature which significantly reduces  the time required for the array to transition from degraded to healthy status,  greatly reducing the risk of having a dead logical drive, and frees up CPU  resources more quickly to be available for I/O and other demands. Additionally,  the VessRAID 2000 introduces new data protection technologies, including  ‘Advanced Battery Flash Backup’ which delivers enhanced reliability in the  protection of valuable business data.

FEATURES OF THE VESSRAID 2000 SERIES INCLUDE:   

• Fibre Channel 8Gbps,  iSCSI 1Gbps & 10Gbps host connect ports   
• High availability  dual controller design   
• PerfectRebuild:  Reduces time required to transition array from degraded to healthy status   
• Advanced Battery  Flash Backup provides protection beyond the normal 72 hour backup of the RAID  cache   
• One-Plug-Auto-Service: Simplifies maintenance  and streamlines an easier tech support workflow   
• GreenRAID technology: Features advanced  hardware design using 80PLUS-certified power supplies, and supports complete levels  of MAID 2.0   
• Easily scale up to  112 hard disk drives via VessJBOD expansion units

AVAILABILITY
PROMISE Technology’s VessRAID 2000 series storage systems will be available starting in August 2012 through the  global network of PROMISE distributors and value added resellers.
For full VessRAID 2000 specifications and details,  please visit www.promise.com/VessRAID.