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EqualLogic
Strengthens iSCSI Market Leadership within the Government
Sector
Government IT Executives Turn to EqualLogic for a Robust,
Flexible Alternative to Fibre Channel
Federal and state agencies across the United States are
making the switch from Fibre Channel to iSCSI storage area
networks (SANs) with EqualLogic's award-winning PS arrays.
Government agencies, resellers and integrators, and research
laboratories are partnering with EqualLogic to provide
scalable storage grid environments for mission-critical
applications. To demonstrate its continued market leadership
and sales penetration, EqualLogic is showcasing its wide
range of government customers and partners that are
consistently choosing to create and manage SANs and disaster
recovery sites with EqualLogic's iSCSI-based networked
storage.
IT managers and CIOs within the government sector are
working with EqualLogic's intelligent, self-managing iSCSI
SAN solution to serve as the core of the storage environment
for many mission-critical initiatives such as electronic
data management, knowledge management systems, and research
and exploration projects. A sample of government customers
and partners working with EqualLogic include: state
government organizations such as the Georgia Department of
Transportation and the U.S. District Court of Calif.;
federal contractors such Lockheed Martin, McDonald Bradley
and Raytheon Company; multiple defense agencies and
classified programs; federal agencies such as the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and NASA; government research
contractors Sandia Labs and Fermilab; military bases such as
Edwards Air Force Base and Fort Benning Army Base; and
government-focused distributors such as Promark Technology.
Jeff Seaton, CTO of NASA Langley Research Center, said, "Our
work with IP SAN technology is expanding the breadth and
availability of information accessible to our researchers.
As a result of implementing a document management system
that includes EqualLogic's iSCSI-based PS array, our
researchers are able to focus more on their research rather
than the underlying technology to support that research.
Plus, we will be able to further mine and explore our
internal knowledge base because our researchers have a place
they can go to easily store their information and make it
readily accessible to others. We would not have been able to
implement the system in the short amount of time or within
the tight budget that we had to work with using more
traditional Fibre Channel SAN technology."
EqualLogic's PS SAN technology allows its government
partners and customers to immediately consolidate storage
into a fully redundant, high-performance scalable grid that
can keep up with the 24/7 demands of today's
technology-driven government initiatives and programs.
EqualLogic is successfully selling into a market hungry for
a robust alternative to complex and expensive Fibre Channel
systems. The company posted 100 new customers to its
portfolio in the fourth quarter of 2004 and now boasts more
than 300 customers worldwide storing over 2.0 petabytes of
production data.
EqualLogic storage arrays are available to government buyers
through the GSA Federal Supply Schedule and the NASA
Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement III (SEWP
III) contracts. SEWP III is a Government Wide Acquisition
Contract (GWAC) purchasing vehicle for information
technology products and services that is open to all
agencies, including civilian and Department of Defense
agencies.
Todd Hartung, vice president of Promark Technology, a
premier value-added distributor, said, "We are pleased to be
able to offer EqualLogic's PS Series family of modular
storage arrays on our GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract
as a much-needed alternative to traditional solutions for
networked storage. Through our network of resellers,
EqualLogic's innovative approach to storage consolidation
and virtualization is available to forward-thinking
government agencies and contractors."
Since launching the first native iSCSI storage solution in
2003, EqualLogic has become the leading provider of pure
iSCSI-based SAN solutions. Government agencies and
departments of all sizes are asking for a real SAN that
provides all of the enterprise benefits of Fibre Channel
SANs - without the complexity, expensive maintenance
agreements and costly upgrades. EqualLogic storage arrays
are succeeding in the government market because customers
are asking for a robust, lower cost, simpler-to-manage
alternative to Fibre Channel.
"Our government customers and partners want to deploy
enterprise-quality SAN solutions with all the high-end
features required to ensure high availability and
bulletproof protection of their data," said John Joseph,
vice president of marketing at EqualLogic. "They want a
modular system that will allow them to scale capacity in
affordable increments; they want an integrated system with
all the bells and whistles of high-end storage as standard
features; and EqualLogic is providing this functionality and
aggressively growing its government business as a result."
About EqualLogic
EqualLogic(R), Inc., is the leading provider of intelligent,
all-inclusive iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions
that enable businesses - from Fortune 100 to small and
mid-size organizations - to realize the economic benefits of
consolidated, self-managing storage. The EqualLogic PS
Series of storage arrays, based on the company's patented
peer storage architecture, is the industry's first automatic
storage platform that delivers operational simplicity,
comprehensive data management services and high data
availability in a single, scalable pool of storage.
EqualLogic's headquarters are located in Nashua, New
Hampshire. For more information, please visit http://www.equallogic.com.
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