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MONTREAL, April 22,
2002 – Maximum Throughput Inc. (www.max-t.com), a developer and
provider of high-performance enterprise-class networked storage solutions,
today announced that Veritas DGC (NYSE/TSE: VTS) has purchased a Sledgehammer
NAS Engine as the first stage of a move from Direct Attach Storage (DAS)
to NAS within its seismic processing environment at its global headquarters
in Houston, Texas. Veritas DGC subjected the Sledgehammer product to
a grueling series of tests to demonstrate its performance and reliability.
The ability to deploy existing storage within the NAS environment was
a significant factor in the choice of this product and it will enable
a rapid transition from the DAS model to a NAS environment.
"Our evaluations and testing of the Sledgehammer have shown performance
numbers that finally take NAS into the really useful world. With Sledgehammer,
NAS is no longer a compromise but a viable alternative to direct attached
storage. When coupled with Max-T’s InfinArray product, the enhanced
solution will provide a common pool of storage, for a large number of
servers, accessible at direct attach speeds. " said Ted Mariner,
Vice President, Advanced Hardware and Software Systems for Veritas.
Sledgehammer is based on commodity hardware and supports a wide range
of storage arrays, enabling Veritas to deploy it in front of pre-existing
high-performance DAS arrays. The resulting configuration is utilized
as a consolidated networked storage system accessed by high performance
compute clusters that are used for seismic data processing. The planned
configuration at Veritas enables these powerful clusters to manipulate
and interpret terabytes of geophysical data and to produce geophysical
surveys that are used by the petroleum industry worldwide to manage
exploration risk and to enhance drilling and production success.
“The selection of Sledgehammer by Veritas as the NAS engine for
the grueling throughput demands of seismic processing validates our
assertion that smart software can extract an enormous amount of sustained
performance out of cost-effective, off-the-shelf boxes,” said Gautham
Sastri, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Maximum Throughput. "This
sale marks an important milestone in Max-T’s history and demonstrates
our commitment to delivering the fastest and most scalable networked
storage solutions available at any price.”
The Sledgehammer NAS Engine occupies only 4U of rack space and can be
connected to over 8 Tbytes of high-performance storage manufactured
by a wide range of vendors. Recently published eTesting Labs test results
(http://www.etestinglabs.com/main/reports/maxthru.asp) showed Sledgehammer
sets a new industry benchmark for networked storage solutions by achieving
peak throughput of 240.34 Mbytes per second (1,922.72 Mbps), more than
five times faster than competing products from mainstream vendors. Maximum
Throughput storage solutions enable customers to create scalable, reliable
and highly manageable storage networks by combining innovative software
with standard industry hardware. Max-T’s software is designed to
eliminate the need for proprietary hardware, works in both *NIX and
Windows™ environments, and can be installed in less than 30 minutes.
About Maximum Throughput
Maximum Throughput Inc. (www.max-t.com) is a networked storage developer
whose products deliver SAN level performance over TCP/IP. The Company’s
unique solutions provide many times the storage bandwidth of other NAS
and SAN products, using software that runs on industry standard hardware.
Maximum Throughput’s products offer unparalleled performance, capacity
management, and capacity availability, and have the lowest total cost-of-ownership
in their class.
About Veritas DGC
Veritas DGC Inc. offers the oil and gas industry a comprehensive suite
of integrated geophysical services designed to manage exploration risk
and enhance drilling and production success worldwide. These services
include seismic data acquisition in all environments, data processing,
data visualization, data interpretation, reservoir characterization,
and extensive non-exclusive seismic data library surveys worldwide.
With over 36 years of operating experience, Veritas is one of the world's
leading providers of advanced geophysical technologies.
For more information, or to book interviews, please contact:
Giovanni Tagliamonti
Phone: (514) 938-7323
E-Mail: gtagliamonti@max-t.com
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