EqualLogic Midrange Storage Arrays Take Top Honors in Quality Award from Storage Magazine and...

Customers Rank EqualLogic Number One for Features, Reliability, Initial Quality and Support

NASHUA, N.H. -- EqualLogic[R], the leading provider of enterprise-class iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions, today announced that its PS Series storage arrays ranked number one overall in the

Presented last week at the Storage Decisions Conference, the study behind the award aggregated more than 470 customer evaluations of 15 different midrange SAN products. The survey was conducted by analyst firm Diogenes Analytical Laboratories and asked customers to rate the quality of various product offerings and their support on a scale of 1.0 to 8.0. Also, 93 percent of EqualLogic customers surveyed for the award said that they would buy the EqualLogic product again. The survey ranked midrange solutions from EMC, Network Appliance Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc. (FlexLine and StorEdge), Hewlett-Packard Co., Hitachi Data Systems Corp., IBM Corp., and Dell Inc.

The Quality Award survey revealed that customers appreciate the software features EqualLogic includes in its product at no extra cost, particularly its capabilities for data protection. The December 2006 Storage magazine article "Quality Awards II: EqualLogic emerges as top midrange array" (http://storagemagazine.techtarget.com/magItem/0,291266,sid35_gci1232 668,00.html) read, "PS Series users particularly like its snapshot functionality, giving it a solid 6.47 for the statement 'This product's snapshot features meet my needs.'" (Due to the length of this URL, it may be necessary to copy and paste it into your Internet browser's URL address field. You may also need to remove an extra space in the URL if one exists.)

Customers also rated EqualLogic's sales team highly, especially for keeping the customers' interests foremost. EqualLogic's channel partners were also given kudos for being knowledgeable and capable of resolving most problems without escalation.

"These top ratings from our customers validate EqualLogic's unique product architecture, business model and relentless pursuit of customer satisfaction," said John Joseph, vice president of marketing, EqualLogic. "We are grateful that customers have recognized our efforts to simplify their lives. Our goal is to make their purchase, deployment, administration and expansion of SANs as painless as possible."

EqualLogic delivers a dynamic virtual storage solution to companies of all sizes, offering a reliable, self-managing, scalable pool of storage that responds automatically to users' demands. The award-winning and data-center-proven PS Series is the only native iSCSI SAN solution to offer a comprehensive and fully integrated standard feature set at no additional cost. Each PS Series storage array comes with fully redundant, fault-tolerant hardware and includes automatic storage management software. Multiple arrays combine to form a scalable storage grid that expands in capacity as needed without disruption.

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About EqualLogic

EqualLogic([R]), Inc., is the leading provider of intelligent, enterprise-class iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions that enable businesses - from Fortune 100 to small and mid-size organizations in more than 30 countries worldwide - to realize the benefits of consolidated, self-managing storage. The EqualLogic PS Series of storage arrays, based on the company's patented peer storage architecture, is the industry's first automatic storage platform that delivers operational simplicity, comprehensive data management services and high data availability in a single, scalable pool of storage. EqualLogic's headquarters are located in Nashua, New Hampshire. For more information, please visit http://www.equallogic.com.

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