The SP5000 application-aware cache wins gold in Storage Networking Equipment category

AUSTIN, TX – February 2, 2010 – Storspeed Inc., today announced that its SP5000 application-aware cache won Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com’s Gold award for 2009 Product of the Year.

Judges awarded medals in five different categories: Backup and disaster recovery hardware; Backup and disaster recovery software and services; Disks and disk subsystems; Storage management tools, and Storage networking equipment. The Storspeed SP5000 took top honors in the Storage networking equipment category.

In selecting the SP5000 for Gold in its category, the judges cited high marks for innovation in ensuring key users and applications receive the resources they require while allowing IT managers to use low cost and high capacity storage solutions.

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Storspeed’s SP5000 application-aware caching solution delivers breakthrough visibility and performance into the file-based storage infrastructure.  IT managers, for the first time, can identify storage “hot-spots” and connect storage usage back to users, IP addresses, virtual machines, and applications in multi-vendor environments.  Critical applications automatically benefit from the performance delivered by the application-aware cache; as applications or data sets change, the SP5000 intelligently accelerates the hot data.  

“We are honored to be recognized as Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com’s Gold award winner,” said Greg Dahl, co-founder and VP of Business Development at Storspeed, “We believe the SP5000 is a game-changing solution in network storage. The SP5000 gives IT managers’ unprecedented visibility into their storage infrastructure and delivers industry leading performance to their most important applications.”

The Storspeed SP5000 is invisible to applications, storage, and network infrastructure. No operational changes are required to begin realizing performance and visibility benefits.  A cluster of SP5000 nodes scales to millions of IOPS and gigabytes per second of throughput.

About Storspeed

Storspeed, a privately held storage solutions company based in Austin, Texas, was founded by a team of executives with broad experience in Storage, Networking and Enterprise Management. Storspeed is leading the way in delivering solutions that reduce storage operational and capital equipment expenses while increasing overall performance and manageability. The result is unprecedented performance and lower capacity costs – the best of both worlds.  For more information, visit www.storspeed.com.

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Contact Information:

Greg Dahl

Storspeed, Inc.

(512)402-5811

pr@storspeed.com