Alacritech Awarded "Investors' Choice" by Technologic Partners
Proven TCP/IP Acceleration Solution for Storage and Networking Recognized
San Jose, Calif., — March 11, 2002 — Alacritech®, Inc., the innovator of accelerator solutions that enable fast and efficient servers and storage systems, today announced that Technologic Partners has named Alacritech among ten top privately-held companies to receive its Investors' Choice Award. The winners were selected from 84 companies that presented their business plans at Technologic Partners Network Outlook conference held on March 4 and 5 in Burlingame, California.
Alacritech is led by storage visionary Larry Boucher, who presented at Network Outlook. The company is well known for delivering breakthrough technology, and is in volume production of its Gigabit Ethernet server and storage accelerators for network-attached storage (NAS), Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage devices and servers. The company has also completed designs for its upcoming 10 Gigabit Ethernet accelerator, the fourth-generation of its patented TCP/IP offload solution.
Technologic Partners Investors' Choice Award winners include: Alacritech, ForeScout, iPolicy Networks, Mellanox Technologies, Peribit Networks, Pirus Networks, Proficient Networks, Quarry Technologies, Turin Networks, and YottaYotta. The awards were based on voting by the audience of 350 entrepreneurs, investors, and industry executives, as well as a panel of experts.
About Alacritech, Inc.
Alacritech was founded by Larry Boucher, creator of the SCSI interface, to deliver upon his vision of eliminating the server bottleneck. Today, Alacritech, Inc. is the innovator of network accelerator solutions that enable fast and efficient servers and storage systems. Alacritech's complete line of high-performance server and storage accelerators is based on the company's patented SLIC (session-layer interface card) Technology to optimize the performance of servers, network-attached storage and iSCSI storage devices. SLIC Technology is the first fully compatible and scalable technology to offload network protocol processing, primarily TCP/IP, from software on the host system to silicon on the adapter. Based in San Jose, California, Alacritech is privately held. Alacritech is a member of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance and the Storage Networking Association (SNIA) and a founding member of the SNIA IP Storage Forum. For more information about Alacritech and its products, please visit the company's Web site at www.alacritech.com.
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