American Megatrends Launches StorTrends© iTX 2.1 Storage Software at Storage Networking World Spring 2006

Tuesday: April 4, 2006

Editorial Summary:

• AMI launches StorTrends® 2.1, its newest iSCSI storage software, at Storage Networking World in San Diego, California
• AMI will demonstrate the newest features of its StorTrends® software, including Advanced Snapshots, Failure Recovery, Replication and Virtualization, at booth PP13 of SNW on April 4th & 5th
• AMI will also demonstrate StorTrend® NXS, its storage software stack for Intel XScale® Technology

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - American Megatrends Inc. (AMI), a leading provider of storage and computing innovations worldwide, today released its StorTrends® iTX 2.1 IP SAN software at Storage Networking World (SNW). AMI will also demonstrate the latest features of its StorTrends® products in the AMI booth PP13 during exposition hours on April 4th and 5th.

"We are pleased to announce the release of StorTrends® iTX 2.1 that includes new features such as auto RAID rebuild, integrated web-based management, iSCSI tape support and extended UPS support," said Paresh Chatterjee, AMI CTO. "The StorTrends iTX 2.1 storage software simplifies data management while cutting storage expenditures."

"AMI continues to raise the bar with feature enhancements like advanced snapshot, replication, advanced virtualization and failure recovery," stated S. Shankar, president of AMI. "StorTrends products have enterprise-level features with price points that appeal to the SMB market as well."

AMI’s Dual Dialect StorTrends iTX 2.1 storage software offers support for both IP-SAN and NAS. It will be demonstrated using AMI’s StorTrends 3100i and StorTrends 1100i storage appliances. The StorTrends 3100i has 15 hot-swap SATA drive bays, hardware RAID support and capacity of up to 7.5 TB. The StorTrends 1100i has 4 hot-swap SATA drives and capacity of up to 2 TB. AMI’s storage appliances offer robust features with prices starting under two dollars per gigabyte. The advanced features of AMI’s StorTrends storage software stack include:

Advanced Snapshot

• Maximizes performance even with 254 active read-writable snapshots per SAN or NAS volume.
• Creates and deletes snapshots in under half-a-second; Rollback in under a second.

Auto RAID rebuild

• Automatically rebuild RAID array upon new disk insertion.

Extended UPS support

• Supports Windows OS/iTX/Linux as UPS slaves and wide variety of UPS makes and models.

Failure Recovery

• Supports failover and failback on node, link or power failure with minimum RPO and RTO, which maximizes availability and minimizes data loss.
• Recovers from failure either through backup-restore or through online resynchronization that minimizes bandwidth utilization and recovery time.

Integrated Web-based Management

• Simple storage configuration wizard manage volumes, snapshots, logical disk, quotas and alerts.

iSCSI Tape Support

• Exposes any tape drive as an iSCSI device.

Replication

• Asynchronous, Synchronous and Snapshot-assisted replication allow maximum flexibility.

Virtualization

• Automatically expands volumes by re-striping data when additional StorTrends appliances are added, significantly faster than other contemporary storage stacks.

AMI will also be demonstrating StorTrends NXS software for Intel XScale® Technology on third-party hardware. StorTrends® NXS software is perfect for the growing storage needs SOHO users face. New StorTrends NXS features include:

• Bare Metal Recovery
• Simplified Web User Interface
• UPnP Media Server

About AMI : Founded in 1985 and known worldwide for AMIBIOS®, American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) supplies state-of-the-art hardware, software, and utilities to top-tier manufacturers of desktop, server, mobile and embedded systems. AMI’s industry leading Aptio® V UEFI BIOS firmware, innovative StorTrends® Network Storage hardware and software products and MegaRAC® remote server management solutions continue to garner industry acclaim and awards around the world. In line with the diversity of its technology and product line, AMI is a member of a number of industry associations and standards groups, such as the Unified EFI Forum (UEFI), the Intel® Intelligent Systems Alliance and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). Headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, AMI has locations in the U.S., China, Germany, India, Japan, Korea and Taiwan to better serve its customers.

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