Norfolk, Virginia - October 17, 2006 — Wasabi Systems today announced that the latest Wasabi Storage Builder® for IP-SAN software solution will be shown at Storage Expo 2006 at the National Hall, Olympia, London, October 18-19. In Stand # 748, Boston Ltd will showcase its new IP-SAN and NAS storage systems powered by Wasabi Storage Builder, offering up to 12TB in a single 3U enclosure.
The most recent version of Wasabi Storage Builder for IP-SAN adds exceptional levels of support: support for VMWare ESX Server 3.0, support for logical volumes in excess of 2TB, and support for LSI Logic MegaRAID controllers. In addition, Boston will demonstrate WasabiRAID™, an integrated RAID capability that provides additional reliability, scalability and cost reduction options to Storage Builder-based IP-SAN solutions. Storage Builder for NAS v1.1 adds an integrated iSCSI initiator to easily scale storage capacity by utilizing iSCSI targets, and a native utility for tape backup.
“Storage Expo is an excellent venue that brings together the top storage vendors and business consumers in Europe,” said Frank G. Logan, Wasabi’s President and CEO. “Through our partnership with Boston, Wasabi is delivering products that meet the networked storage needs of European companies.”
“Boston is pleased to exhibit IP-SAN and NAS solutions based on the combination of Wasabi Storage Builder software and hardware platforms from Supermicro,” said Minoj Nayee, CEO of Boston Ltd. “We have been working with Wasabi and selling solutions based on Storage Builder for more than two years and have been very impressed with their products and support.”
The Wasabi Storage Builder family of products offer complete, turnkey software solutions that enable OEMs to deliver high-performance IP-SAN and NAS storage appliances. Modular and scalable, Wasabi Storage Builder is the most advanced software platform available today for creating IP-enabled networked storage devices. Wasabi Storage Builder is compatible with all IETF compliant initiators and has been thoroughly validated with initiators available with Microsoft Windows, various Linux and Unix distributions, MAC OS X, Netware, Solaris, and Wasabi Certified™ BSD.
Storage Expo is the United Kingdom’s only dedicated data storage event and provides attendees the opportunity to observe and evaluate a comprehensive range of data storage solutions from the industry-leading suppliers. Addressing today’s significant storage issues, the 5th annual Storage Expo will provide exceptional educational programming design to help its visitors “find the definitive answer” to their growing data storage needs. http://www.Storage-Expo.com/
About Boston Ltd.
Boston Ltd has been in business since 1992 and is one of the success stories of the independent IT hardware sector. Built on a strong reputation of providing superb service on both pre-sales and post-sales, Boston is pan-European trade distributor, delivering high quality high performance computer components, cutting edge storage appliances, servers and workstations to it’s OEM’s and Resellers.
About Wasabi Systems
Wasabi Systems provides software solutions to OEMs designing networking and network storage equipment. Built on a best of breed Open Source foundation, Wasabi’s platforms and components offer state-of-the-art functionality and robustness intended to accelerate product time to market. Through partnerships with the leading semi-conductor manufacturers including AMD, AMCC, Intel, IBM, Freescale, Marvell & Toshiba, Wasabi offers complete ready-for-market reference designs for IP-SAN, NAS, Firewall, VPN, WAN, WLAN and WiFi applications. Wasabi’s investors include Intel Capital, Hudson Venture Partners, Newlight Associates and Himalaya Capital.
To learn more about Wasabi Systems, visit www.WasabiSystems.com, call 757.248.9601, or contact the Company’s headquarters at 500 E. Main Street, Suite 1520, Norfolk, VA 23510.
