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Scale Computing Wins 2009 Mira Information Technology Gazelle Award

Scale Computing’s ICS™ technology delivers enterprise-class, truly scalable, clustered storage solutions that significantly reduce storage costs.

Indianapolis, May 21, 2009—Founded by serial Silicon-Valley entrepreneurs, Scale Computing today announced it has won the 2009 Mira Information Technology Gazelle Award. The TechPoint Mira Awards are the premier technology awards program in the state of Indiana. Scale was chosen from a category that had nine competitors for the award.

 

According to Mira criteria, winners need to demonstrate an innovative business approach and have a successful and well-balanced management team.  The company also “must deliver new and measurable value to its customers and be able to demonstrate the ability to preserve and sustain growth.”

 

“I am pleased to accept this prestigious award for technology start-ups,” said Scale Computing CEO, Jeff Ready. “Scale Computing is leading the storage industry with low-cost, feature-rich enterprise-class clustered storage solutions. We look forward to growing our business here in Indiana.”

 

Scale’s ICS
  ICS creates a fluid, easily scalable storage pool that makes business continuity less of a concept and more of a reality. The company’s patent-pending ICS™  technology combines commodity hardware with a clustered file system commonly found only in the world’s largest supercomputers. This allows IT managers to scale storage 1TB at a time in a migration-less environment that has no single point of failure and costs up to 70% less than other solutions on the market.

 

“Among the Commodity-based Clustered Storage solutions, no one else is offering incremental,  scale-out features at this price, that I know of,” said Arun Taneja, storage analyst and founder of the Taneja Group. 

 

Customer Benefits
  Scale’s ICS storage nodes are used in health care, media,  telecommunications and other industries that require large amounts of data storage for archiving and virtualization. In health care, hospitals use Scale’s ICS  for virtual desktop implementation. Hospitals save money on storage and are able to realize the full cost savings virtual desktops provide over physical hardware purchases.
  “Health care companies can gain significant cost reductions with Scale’s ICS,” said Peter Fuller, Scale’s VP of Marketing. “The growing demand for health services and the push for electronic record keeping put severe pressures on health care IT budgets. ICS drives storage costs down, while simultaneously opening the door to the massive cost savings offered by virtualization vendors.”

 

More Information
  For more information on Scale’s ICS solution and to view a FLASH demonstration of the ICS architecture, visit www.scalecomputing.com.

 

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