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Billerica, MA – November 28, 2007 – IBRIX® Inc., the leader in scalable file serving solutions, today announced its customer, AOL®, was named to the InfoWorld 100 list for its creative use of IBRIX’s scalable file serving software to manage bulk storage demands. The InfoWorld 100 Awards celebrate IT projects that use technology in smart, innovative, and creative ways to meet business and technical objectives.
“AOL is at the forefront of enterprises serving the online generation that seek to build scalable, flexible and economical clustered storage environments capable of handling the explosive growth of unstructured data,” said Sudhir Srinivasan, Chief Technology Officer of IBRIX. “IBRIX offers the industry’s only software solution capable of aggregating dense storage servers from any hardware vendor into petabyte-scale repositories, and we’re happy to have been chosen by AOL to power their groundbreaking scalable storage system.”
IBRIX’s flagship product, IBRIX Fusion™, supports AOL Xdrive®, a service that provides up to 5 gigabytes of free secure online storage. As consumers place their most valuable photos, songs and documents online, around-the-clock accessibility and scalability to support the growing amount of user-generated content are primary considerations.
IBRIX Fusion allows AOL to have a single point of management and reduce the resources needed to manage petabytes of unstructured data. The software-based solution is installed on several hundred storage servers in a direct-attached storage environment. IBRIX Fusion’s ability to work with commodity server and storage hardware gives AOL the freedom to employ the most cost-effective architecture. Maintenance can be performed and more storage capacity can be added without any system downtime, ensuring enterprise-class availability as well as rapid scalability to meet business needs.
About IBRIX, Inc.
IBRIX® delivers increased application performance to enterprise computing environments utilizing a unique parallel file serving solution. IBRIX Fusion™ is comprised of a single namespace parallel file system, a scalable volume manager, high availability features, and a comprehensive management interface. IBRIX Fusion is the most scalable, economical, multi-purpose file serving solution available for cluster computing, grid computing, and enterprise computing environments. Based on IBRIX’s patented Segmented File System™, IBRIX Fusion increases application performance, simplifies administration, and reduces total cost of ownership. The IBRIX Fusion file serving solution is available through leading OEMs. For more information, visit www.ibrix.com.
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