RAID Inc. Announces Line of Customized Server Solutions Based Upon Nehalem CPUs

METHUEN, MA--(Marketwire - May 28, 2009) - RAID Incorporated, a customized storage, services, and HPC solutions provider specializing in leading-edge technologies, today announced availability on their Fusion server family based upon Intel's Nehalem CPU technology.

Responding to customer requests, RAID will be providing a full line of server solutions ranging from a 1U dual Nehalem CPU system to an enterprise blade solution with fourteen blades in a 7U form factor. These systems will provide extreme high-performance and density. RAID is one of a handful of vendors that can provide dual Tylersburg chipset technology, allowing for up to (72) PCI-E links for applications that need extreme bandwidth and performance. In addition, many of the Fusion servers feature a Green design, with 93% Efficiency power supplies significantly reducing power consumption and overall TCO.

RAID's line of Fusion servers allows them to offer fully configured, turnkey high-performance compute solutions, integrating with storage solutions such as the X2-IB, which is scalable up to 1,536 SAS/SATA drives and 128 GB of Cache, and their existing Fibre-Channel and InfiniBand switching products. In addition, all Fusion servers come with options for QDR/DDR InfiniBand, 10Gb/1Gb Ethernet, and 8Gb/4Gb Fibre-Channel host cards.

"We are now in a great position to offer computing expertise to our existing customer base that has trusted us with their storage and infrastructure needs for years, many for over a decade," stated Robert Picardi, Chief Operating Officer at RAID. "We have proven time and time again that we can be leaned upon for enterprise-class storage solutions to protect mission-critical data, and for a service and support model that has proven to be the most reliable in the storage industry. We are very enthusiastic about the opportunity to bring this model to the server market, and to provide our customers with a single source for all of their end-to-end storage and computing needs."

About RAID IncorporatedSince 1994 RAID Inc. has provided true 100% customized storage solutions that best meet the unique requirements of HPC centers, corporations, government entities and educational institutions worldwide. From supercomputing to grid computing, RAID Inc. ensures the availability of critical digital content in real-time, all the time. The company guarantees this with the "RAID Approach," the industry's only concierge service and support model that assures the highest level of personalized support and resolution to any issue. StorageWatch??, the industry's only real-time monitoring and managed storage service offering which lowers total cost of ownership while increasing data availability, was developed as part of the" RAID Approach" to better serve its customers. RAID Inc.'s guaranteed "customer first" approach has made them an industry leader in true 100% customized storage and the best service and support. For more information about RAID Inc. visit www.raidinc.com or call 800-330-7335.