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TERRASCALE
TECHNOLOGIES RECEIVES GRIDTODAY'S
EDITORS' CHOICE AWARD
-- Rackable Systems' Terrascale Storage Solutions
Recognized for Best Price/Performance Storage Solution for a
Grid Implementation --
MILPITAS, Calif., September 12, 2006 – Rackable
Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: RACK), a leading provider of servers and storage
products for large-scale data centers, today announced that its recently
acquired company, Terrascale Technologies, Inc., is being honored by
GRIDtoday for its next generation storage solutions for high performance
enterprise class cluster and grid applications. GRIDtoday's
"Editors' Choice: Best Price/Performance Storage Solution for
a Grid Implementation" award is being presented at the GridWorld™
conference in Washington, D.C.
The GRIDtoday Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards are determined through
a survey of thousands of GRIDtoday readers, and will be a permanent
annual feature of the publication. GRIDtoday has designated two categories
of awards: (1) Readers' Choice, where winners have been determined
by a random poll of GRIDtoday readers, and (2) Editors' Choice, where
winners have been determined by votes of an advisory group of recognized
luminaries, contributors and editors influential in Grid and Service-Oriented
IT.
"We are very excited about this opportunity to articulate the
views and opinions of our readers to recognize the accomplishments
that are being made in advancing the development and adoption of Grid,
Service-Oriented IT and virtualization," said Tom Tabor, publisher
of GRIDtoday.
"These industry recognition awards send a strong message to the
recipients that the many global contributors working in or watching
this important computing segment recognize their work, and consider
their efforts meritorious. Our congratulations go out to all the winners."
Rackable Systems recently announced the completion of its acquisition
of the award-winning Terrascale Technologies, Inc., a provider of a
clustered storage solution enabling high performance I/O connectivity
between servers and commodity-based storage subsystems. Terrascale's
clustered file system solutions eliminate the performance bottleneck
inherent with legacy Network Attached Storage (NAS) architectures by
delivering a single file system solution that scales nearly linearly
in both capacity and performance.
Terrascale's technology is well suited to large Linux clusters found
in Internet and High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, enabling
customers to realize improved manageability, storage utilization and
availability in addition to up to tens of gigabytes per second of I/O
throughput.
"This is an exciting award for us, and recognizes the level of
innovation we have achieved with the Terrascale technology," said
Gautham Sastri, executive vice president of Storage Solutions at Rackable
Systems. "Terrascale has already achieved demonstrable success
in data center environments that rely on high performance server and
storage capabilities, and the combination of Terrascale's clustered
storage solutions with Rackable Systems' award-winning servers and
storage creates a compelling solution for today's grid computing environments."
More information on these awards can be found at the GRIDtoday website
(www.GRIDtoday.com).
About GRIDtoday
Published weekly, GRIDtoday (www.GRIDtoday.com)
is the world's leading source of news, information and events covering
Grid and Service-Oriented IT. In addition to the weekly publication,
GRIDtoday offers daily news alerts capturing the top and most relevant
stories from around the globe as well as event-specific coverage from
industry cornerstone events. Subscription information for GRIDtoday
can be found at: http://www.GRIDtoday.com/info/701.html.
About Rackable Systems
Rackable Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: RACK) is a provider of servers and
storage products for large-scale data center deployments. The company's
products are designed to provide benefits in the areas of density,
thermal efficiency, serviceability, power distribution and remote management.
Founded in 1999 and based in Milpitas, California, Rackable Systems
serves Internet, semiconductor design, enterprise software, federal
government, entertainment, financial services, oil and gas exploration
and biotechnology customers worldwide.
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Systems®, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective
holders.
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