iQstor's iQ2880 Storage System Brings Integrated and Intelligent Storage Software and 4Gb/s FC Performance to Small and Medium Enterprises

iQstor Networks Announces General Availability of Industry's First All-in-One, High Performance and Affordable 4Gb/s Storage System

NEWBURY PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--iQstor Networks, Inc., a leading developer of intelligent and integrated Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions for small and medium enterprises, today announced general availability of the company's flagship product - the iQstor iQ2880 storage system. The iQstor iQ2880 is a 4Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC) storage system with integrated and user-friendly storage services, including volume management-based virtualization, snapshot, mirroring, remote replication, storage provisioning and policy-driven capacity growth. Designed exclusively for small and medium enterprises (SME), the iQstor iQ2880 storage solution provides high performance and value for primary and secondary storage applications.

Disaster recovery, increase in email, widespread use of networks and enterprise applications are driving the increased adoption of storage and software according to a recent 2006 Small and Medium Business Storage Survey conducted by the Yankee Group. Robust spending growth is expected on storage systems and storage software in all SMB segments with 14% growth in 2006 from $16 billion in 2005.

“Small and medium enterprises want a total-storage solution to solve their growing IT needs as they don't have the IT resources or expertise to buy pieces and then integrate them,” said Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst, The Storage I/O Group. “iQstor's intelligent storage system provides an easy-to-use storage solution that delivers the latest technologies to the SME market while addressing storage consolidation, backup and recovery, data availability and disaster recovery.”

iQ2880 users have the option of enabling integrated storage services features via an embedded wizard-based configuration and management GUI. The iQstor iQ2880 can be scaled using the J2880 SBOD expansion enclosure, creating a system with high performance FC drives for primary storage and low cost SATA drives for secondary storage. The iQ2880's drive canisters include a FC-SATA bridge module that allows high-capacity SATA2 drives to be utilized together with FC drives within the same enclosure. Each iQ2880 supports up to 15 drives providing 4.5TB of storage capacity using 300GB FC4 or 11.25TB using 750GB SATA2 drives, and can scale to 72TB with FC or 180TB with SATA2 drives, offering high capacity and increased throughput.

“We constantly look for leading technologies from vendors we trust in order to provide our customers with outstanding information technology services,” said Mark Chodos, co-founder of Petta Technology, Inc. “JibJab, a Petta Tech customer, required a solution that would increase the throughput and capacity for their media clips. iQstor's iQ2880 delivers the high-capacity, high-performance and reliability we needed to effectively support JibJab's leading original and user-generated content. Designing the right server, software and storage solution to fit the needs of JibJab and other customers like them is ultimately what gives Petta Tech the competitive advantage.”

“iQstor is committed to providing cost-effective storage solutions to our customers worldwide and the iQ2880, with its rich feature set, high reliability and ease-of-use, has set a new standard for price vs. performance,” said Jason Lo, president and CEO of iQstor Networks. “iQ2880's 4Gb/s FC-to-FC connectivity offers very fast throughput at up to 1600MB/s per array. The iQ2880 can be populated with FC and SATA disk drives to optimize performance or capacity and its embedded storage management software guarantees ease-of-use and management.”

The iQ2880 storage system is now available through iQstor's network of domestic and international business partners. For more information or to become an authorized reseller, visit www.iqstor.com/partners.

About iQstor Networks, Inc.

A privately held company based in Newbury Park, CA, iQstor is a leader in the innovative design and delivery of storage solutions with embedded enterprise level functionality to channel partners worldwide. Its storage solutions include FC, iSCSI and SATA intelligent storage systems and expansion enclosures, policy-based storage management, data services software, professional services, support and training. For more information on iQstor, visit the company's web site at www.iqstor.com.