MILPITAS, Calif., May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Adaptec, Inc. , a global leader in storage solutions, announced today that Network Products Guide, an industry leading publication on information technologies and solutions has named the Adaptec RAID 52445 Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID controller a winner of the 2009 Product Innovation Awards. This annual award recognizes and honors vendors from all over the world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.
Selected from the industry's leading storage products, the Adaptec RAID 52445 controller offers the industry's first 28-port connectivity with both internal and external ports for high I/O performance up to five times faster than competitors. Designed to deliver the industry's most cost-effective solution for increasing data storage access and scalability, the Adaptec RAID 52445 allows up to 256 SATA or SAS drives to be connected to a single system providing more than 200TB of storage capacity. This efficient PCIe interface controller is designed for a wide range of storage-critical, bandwidth-intensive applications such as Web hosting, digital video surveillance, medical imaging and communications. In addition, the Adaptec RAID 52445 also features Adaptec Intelligent Power Management - the ability to choose from three levels of disk drive power modes: 1) Normal operation - full power, full RPM (revolutions per minute), 2) Standby - low-power mode spins disks at lower RPM, and 3) Power-off - disks not spinning. This innovative feature allows system OEMs, integrators and IT managers to easily custom-configure storage systems to reduce power and cooling energy consumption by up to 70 percent without sacrificing performance. To read more about this product innovation, please visit http://www.networkproductsguide.com/innovations.
"Innovation is clearly an important factor for greater success and has the most impact on staying competitive," says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief of Network Products Guide. "Innovative products such as the Adaptec RAID 52445 Unified Serial RAID controller are bringing improvements in data storage access, scalability, and reliability to enterprise-class applications, while at the same time increasing energy efficiency and providing energy cost savings."
"Network Products Guide's recognition of the Adaptec RAID 52445 controller underscores Adaptec's commitment to delivering IT managers and system builders with best-in-class data storage products that support their environmental and 'green' initiatives," said Scott Cleland, director of marketing, Adaptec. "Meeting and exceeding the data storage needs of our OEM, channel and system integrator customers and ecosystem partners is always our top priority, and we will continue to provide solutions that are ground-breaking."
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About Adaptec
Adaptec provides trusted storage solutions that reliably move, manage, and protect critical data and digital content. Adaptec's software and hardware-based solutions are delivered through leading channel partners and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to provide storage connectivity, data protection, and networked storage to enterprises, government organizations, medium and small businesses worldwide. More information is available at http://www.adaptec.com/.
Adaptec is a registered trademark and Unified Serial is a trademark in the United States and other countries. Other company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Adaptec disclaims any and all rights in these trademarks.
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Adaptec, Inc.
CONTACT: Sara Lee of Walt & Company, +1-408-369-7200, ext. 2980,
slee@walt.com, for Adaptec, Inc.
Web Site: http://www.adaptec.com/
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