Alacritech and INLINE Announce OEM Partnership to
Provide Powerful NAS Appliances
Top-performing TCP/IP Offload Adapter Enables Reliability
and 150% Better Performance in NAS Environments
San Jose, Calif. — December 16, 2002 — Alacritech®,
Inc., the innovator of network accelerator solutions that enable fast and
efficient servers and storage systems, today announced an OEM and integration
partnership with INLINE Corporation, a leading provider of open systems
storage solutions. INLINE will integrate Alacritech's 1000x1 Single-port
Gigabit Ethernet Server and Storage Accelerator in its FileStorm 4000 and
8000 lines of network-attached storage (NAS) devices targeted for mid-range
and high-end markets. The NAS appliances running with Alacritech accelerators
will provide scalability, reliability and 150% better performance to INLINE's
customers in the commercial, higher-education and government sectors.
"INLINE's high-performance storage solutions have long focused on eliminating
single-points-of-failure to ensure reliability and availability in our
customer's storage environments," said Jim Fernandez, vice president of
engineering, INLINE Corporation. "By incorporating Alacritech's Gigabit
Ethernet TOE cards with failover and link aggregation capabilities in
our NAS appliance lines, we're able to guarantee the uptime we strive
to provide. In addition, we're achieving 150% greater performance than
with conventional adapters, which is critical to increasing data transactions,
throughput and scalability within our product line."
Alacritech is focused on providing the NAS market with the industry's
highest-performing solutions. As the pioneer of TCP/IP offload engine
technology, Alacritech designed its patented SLIC Technology® to enable
outstanding performance and connectivity in emerging storage networking
platforms such as blade servers, appliance servers, and iSCSI storage
devices. Alacritech's 1000x1 Single-port Gigabit Ethernet Server and Storage
Accelerator is based on SLIC Technology, and is the industry's only Integrated
Storage Network Interface Card (IS-NIC), which can simultaneously accelerate
both IP storage and standard Ethernet traffic.
"Our OEM agreement with INLINE further executes upon our NAS business
strategy and demonstrates the rapid adoption of SLIC Technology as the
standard for all high-performance NAS platforms," said Kim Peyser, senior
vice president of sales and marketing, Alacritech, Inc. "Today, customers
demand fast, reliable access to data in order to effectively manage a
wide range of business applications. Our architecture, and partnerships
with leading companies like INLINE, allows us to enable powerful, yet
cost-effective NAS solutions."
About INLINE's FileStorm NAS Appliance Family
INLINE's high-performance FileStorm 4000 Series targeted for the mid-range
and high-end markets features up to 4 Xeon processors, 8 Gigabytes of
cache and 6 Gigabit Ethernet ports. The FileStorm 4000 Series includes
the FileStorm 4100, and the FileStorm 4200, a high-availability, clustered
version. The FileStorm 8000 NAS appliance is designed for global enterprises.
With the ability to upgrade to 8 processors, 16 Gigabytes of cache, and
8 Gigabit Ethernet ports, the FileStorm 8000 also includes a clustered
version for guaranteed uptime. All INLINE FileStorm products install in
less than 15 minutes, feature an easy-to-use, browser-based management
tool and a UNIX command line tool. The products also include simultaneous
connectivity for multiple operating systems including Windows 2000 and
Windows NT, Novell, UNIX and Linux-based systems, as well as Macintosh.
About Alacritech Acceleration Technology
Alacritech's complete line of products is based on the company's patented
SLIC Technology, a TCP/IP data-path offload and acceleration architecture
proven to deliver the most efficient, top-performing server and storage
traffic acceleration possible. Alacritech server and storage accelerators
use the company's Internet Protocol Processor (IPP), a custom, programmable
ASIC developed to offload TCP/IP processing from the system to reduce
CPU utilization, increase data throughput and decrease network latency.
All Alacritech products offer industry-standard failover and link aggregation.
All Alacritech products also offer standard iSCSI support, Microsoft Windows
Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) qualified drivers for Windows 2000 and Windows
NT, and support for Red Hat Linux. A driver development kit is available
for OEMs integrating SLIC Technology into proprietary operating systems.
About INLINE Corporation
Founded in 1994, and based in Northern Virginia, INLINE Corporation is
a leading independent provider of open systems storage solutions. Its
customers are a diverse group from industries such as telecommunications,
digital imaging and multimedia companies, as well as government agencies
and universities nationwide. Profitable and debt-free since inception,
INLINE is the recipient of many prestigious corporate awards including
Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, and Washington Technology Fast
50.
About Alacritech, Inc.
Alacritech, Inc. was founded by Larry Boucher, creator of the SCSI interface,
to deliver upon his vision of eliminating the server bottleneck. Today,
Alacritech is the innovator of network accelerator solutions that enable
fast and efficient servers and storage systems. Alacritech's products
are based on the company's patented SLIC (session-layer interface control)
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, the iSCSI Consortium and the
Storage Networking Association (SNIA) as well as 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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