GENSTOR SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES NEW COLLABORATION WITH AMD AND OPEN-E

Genstor launches the GNS-2450; the next generation in energy-efficient storage appliances, offering a full line of NAS and iSCSI solutions based on AMD Opteron™ processors.

Orlando, FL -- 4/7/2008 -- Genstor Systems, Inc., a customized solutions provider for servers, storage, clusters, OEM appliances and high-performance computing, today announced the launch of their new green storage server appliance, the GNS-2450, at Storage Networking World in Orlando, FL.

The appliance, resulting from the collaboration between Genstor, Open-E and AMD, uses Open-E® Data Storage Server (DSS™) software and an AMD Opteron processor-based hardware platform.

The Storage appliance is built on the proven Open-E family of storage products, with nearly seven years of development, testing and support - yielding superior security, reliability and ease-of-management benefits. The robust hardware platform takes full advantage of high-performance AMD Opteron processors with Direct Connect Architecture. Coupled with Open-E’s plug-and-play storage management capability and easy-to-use GUI, the GNS-2450 is easily configurable, significantly reducing implementation headaches.

The energy-efficient GNS-2450 is designed to enable optimal performance and rapid deployment across a wide range of applications in the SMB and SME markets. Genstor can custom configure these units to meet each customer’s unique and exacting requirements.

"We are proud to partner with Open-E and launch the green GNS-2450 storage appliance based on the AMD Opteron HE processor platform,” said Raj Chahal, Vice President of Marketing and Technical Sales, Genstor. “With this, Genstor is in a much better position to serve the ever-expanding storage needs of our customers. With AMD’s Longevity Program, which offers long-term processor supply, and Open-E’s DSS storage management software, this appliance will deliver tremendous data throughput that will provide an excellent price performance value to our customers."

In addition to using Open-E’s storage management software on a power-efficient USB Disk-on-Module (DOM), the GNS-2450 has been specially designed as a “green product” with AMD’s energy efficient processor technology. This will make the appliance one of the most energy efficient storage products in the market today.

“We are confident that Genstor’s wide range of customers will be very pleased with the ease of implementation from this highly robust solution,” added Krzysztof Franek, president and CEO of Open-E. ”Our DSS storage management software, partnered with AMD’s hardware, is a natural fit for the new GNS-2450 storage appliance and should yield significant return on investment for the end user.”

“The move toward networked storage is enabling a broad range of unique offerings for small and medium businesses and AMD Direct Connect Architecture uniquely addresses key storage issues of I/O throughput and memory latency with HyperTransport™ technology,” said Buddy Broeker, director, Embedded Computing Solutions Division, AMD. “The new GNS-2450 from Genstor featuring software from Open-E additionally addresses the industry-wide issue of power management and should be a strong value for their customers.”

Please visit Genstor and Open-E in the AMD booth - #706 - at Storage Networking World in Orlando, FL from April 7th - 9th.

About Genstor Systems, Inc.
Genstor provides customized solutions for your Server, Storage, Clusters, PC/Workstation, OEM Appliance and High Performance Computing and High Availability needs. Genstor specializes in customizing hardware around the OS and applications of your choice. The Genstor team is well versed with Linux (Redhat, Fedora, Debian etc.), BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD etc.), Microsoft, x86 Solaris, JDS and other open source Operating Systems. We excel at providing quality hardware at competitive prices. Genstor team has served fortune 500 Corporations, SMB, Educational institutions, and the Government. We customize systems and solutions based on the requirement of each market.

Marketing Contact:
Phone: (408) 383-0120
Email: mktg@genstor.com
Web: www.genstor.com

About Open-E, Inc.
Open-E, Inc. is a pioneering developer of IP-based storage management software with headquarters in the United States and Europe. Its Open-E® DSS™, NAS-R3™ and iSCSI-R3™ product lines, aimed at the SMB and SME markets, enjoy a worldwide reputation for best-in-class performance, flexibility, reliability, scalability and return-on-investment. The company’s robust, high-performance software is made simple, allowing system integrators to build massive, stable, secure and easy to use storage systems.

Open-E, founded in 1998, distributes its products through a worldwide partner network that is established in the storage and networking markets. For more information about Open-E, its products and its partners, please visit www.open-e.com.

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