Active Storage Announces Partner Solution Program

Company Develops Interoperability Testing and Qualification Program Based on Customer-centric Applications
Macworld Conference & Expo 2009

Active Storage, Inc., a leading provider of high-availability RAID storage systems for Apple® users, today announced the initial companies participating in its partner solution program with the goal of providing users of the company’s Active Storage XRAID™ the assurance of tested and supported deployments of popular applications.

“We have been working with leading solution partners in the Apple market since the introduction of the Active Storage XRAID,” said Skip Levens, vice president of Business Development for Active Storage. “Our goal is to extend the reach and capabilities of our joint solutions to meet new and emerging customer needs, dedicated to the seamless user experience that Apple customers demand. We are proud to announce these initial solutions and partners that have been in high demand from our customers.”

“We recently completed qualification testing at one of the most demanding broadcast clients in the world – the performance and reliability of the Active Storage XRAID was absolutely stellar,” said Claudio Lisman, founder, CEO and Chairman of Primestream. “In fact, we think that together with the Primestream portfolio solutions we can unlock new categories of solutions for our top tier broadcasting and media customers building on the considerable expertise of both companies. This will be an exciting year for Active Storage and Primestream.”

“We’re excited to work with the management team at Active Storage again,” said Richard Bauer, president and CEO, Cloverleaf Communications. “Previously, we were able to dramatically expand the capabilities of storage for Apple users – delivering data protection and storage management capabilities beyond that of the top storage vendors for a fraction of the price. Now, with the outstanding performance of the Active Storage XRAID and the impressive engineering team at Active Storage, we look forward to taking these capabilities to new levels and continuing our joint work of delivering sophisticated and flexible storage solutions for Rich Media, Scientific and general IT environments.”

“We believe that the Active Storage XRAID is an important new platform for Apple users – where data management applications like Solutioneering’s Data:enRoute are tightly integrated with fast, highly reliable and carefully tuned storage to deliver a seamless user experience,” said Bob Wilson, president and CEO, Solutioneering.

Active Storage will be demonstrating a joint solution of commonly requested ‘Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape’ information lifecyle management workflow at Macworld 2009 Expo, January 6-9 in Booth 2444 with partners Tandberg Data and Bakbone Software.

Active Storage’s portfolio of tested and qualified solutions come from partners such as Bakbone Software, Tandberg Data, Cloverleaf Communications, Building4Media/Primestream, QLogic and APC. Additional information about the Active Storage Partner Solution Program and current partners is available via inquiry at partners {at} getactivestorage(.)com

About Active Storage

Active Storage, Inc. leads the innovation of hardware RAID solutions for Apple-based infrastructures throughout the business and creative industries particularly video post-production, broadcast, publishing, education and science. Active products deliver a best-of-breed user experience with the performance needed to make complex IT storage solution deployment fast and easy.

Copyright 2009 Active Storage, Inc. All rights reserved. Active Storage XRAID and the Active Storage logo are trademarks of Active Storage, Inc. iPhone is a trademark of Apple, Inc. Apple, Mac OS X, Bonjour, Cocoa, Dashboard, Xsan, and Xserve are registered trademarks of Apple, Inc. All other company name or product names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Contacts

Active Storage, Inc.
Naomi Pearce, 510-528-0824
pr {at} getactivestorage(.)com