Founded on the premise of simplifying networked storage, EqualLogic's new PS Series is a family of intelligent, iSCSI-based storage arrays that fundamentally change storage economics from purchase and set up to operation and upgrades.

The PS family consists of the PS50E, PS100E, PS100X, PS200E, PS800E and PS1600E. All configurations are completely interoperable and upgradable with performance and capacity scaling from a single terabyte to over 100 terabytes without disruption of data availability or application downtime. Pricing starts at USD$24,900.

The new EqualLogic PS Series offers higher performance and higher capacity configurations optimized for larger enterprise-level deployments, specifically:

• Enterprise Reliability: Each PS array offers fully-redundant, hot-swappable components including controllers, fan trays and power supplies. Support for RAID 10 and 50, hot drive sparing, automatic failover and rebuild, and patent-pending proactive media error detection means 99.999 percent data availability or five minutes of planned downtime per year.

• Enterprise Performance: Starting with 300 megabytes per second and 60,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS) - scaling to more than one million IOPS - the PS Series delivers unmatched performance in its class. Automated load balancing seamlessly moves data across all active RAID sets, maximizing performance by intelligently optimizing network connections, cache and controllers in real time.

• Enterprise Data Services: The PS Series comes standard with a comprehensive set of software features, including virtual volume management and space-efficient snapshots for instant backup and restore; volume cloning for rapid server provisioning; and Auto-Replication, Auto-Snapshot, multi-path I/O support and cluster support for comprehensive disaster recovery.

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