Aberdeen Unveils the Petrarack – A Full Petabyte of Managed SAN Storage

Santa Fe Springs, California, August 29, 2011 – Aberdeen LLC, a leading manufacturer of servers and storage, unveils the Petarack, over a full petabyte of managed SAN storage in a single 42U rack. Ready for immediate delivery, the self-contained Petarack’s dual head units deliver high availability with no single point of failure.

Powered by Nexenta’s incredible Nexentastor ZFS file system implementation, the Petarack can be configured under a single Namespace/Volume that doesn’t have to stop at its own petabyte of included storage. The Petarack’s host capacity can be scaled to over 5 petabytes of continuous, uninterrupted storage in a single Namespace/Volume.

The included LCD-KVM is employed to navigate the Petarack’s intuitive web-based GUI management for both configuring the array(s) and for the control of a wealth of enterpris- level software features. These features include, but are not limited to, unlimited snapshots and clones, block-level replication, file-level replication, and management of virtualized storage.

The Petarack is Cloud ready and Virtualization ready, with features such as 128-bit addressing, huge storage file sizes, nearly unlimited clones, and support for multiple, concurrent server virtualization vendors. Virtualization enables thin provisioning, while improving performance via I/O pooling, which actually improves performance as more storage is added. I/O performance can be further enhanced through the strategic deployment of optional, fast SSD drives in hybrid storage pools.

“Make no mistake about it, our Petarack is a revolutionary, innovate design delivering massive amounts of self-contained SAN storage at a price point that quite frankly, we strongly believe will make the entire community sit up and take notice,” said Aberdeen president and CEO, Moshe Ovadya, who went on to say, “The Petarack takes the petabyte plus level of storage, and instantly makes it available to, and affordable by, small and medium size organizations that never believed it would be within their reach.”

Petarack’s features include:

• Over a Full Petabyte of Storage in a Single Rack, Under a Single Namespace or Volume.
• Enterprise Level 10GbE iSCSI Target Built-in; Fibre Channel Target Ready
• High Availability with No Single Point of Failure
• Cloud and Virtualization Ready
• ZFS File System Based, Delivering Fast, Secure Storage with Unlimited Scalability
• Unlimited Snapshots and Clones
• Both Block-Based and File-Based Replication
• Intuitive Web-Based GUI Management with Included LCD-KVM
• Powerful, Redundant Head Units, Each with 4 Open Expansion Slots
• All Hard Drives are in Individual Hot Swap Bays with In-Rack Access
• 5U of Rack Space Available for Optional Switches, a UPS, or an Additional 135TB of Storage
• Nexenta Certified. VMware Certification Pending

Pricing and Availability:

The Petarack is priced at $495,000, and is available for worldwide shipment based upon Aberdeen’s regular production schedule of approximately 10 days ARO. Like all Aberdeen servers and storage, the Petarack is delivered with Aberdeen’s industry-leading 5-year limited warranty.

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Media Contacts:

Larry Aguilar
Marketing Manager
Aberdeen LLC
562-699-6998 x153
larrya@aberdeeninc.com

Jack Tateel
Executive Vice President
Aberdeen LLC
562-699-6998 x157
jackt@aberdeeninc.com

About Aberdeen:

Aberdeen LLC is a leading manufacturer of servers and storage. Delivering exceptional performance, unparalleled reliability and outstanding value, Aberdeen’s award-winning products are deployed every day by IT departments in many of the world’s largest organizations. More information about Aberdeen is available at www.aberdeeninc.com. Day to day announcements from Aberdeen can be found on Twitter: @aberdeenllc.