Amplidata’s AS36 Named Storage Visions 2013 Award Winner

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & LOCHRISTI, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amplidata, an innovator in object storage technology, announces that its AS36 storage module won the 2013 Storage Visions “Enabling Professional Media and Entertainment Storage” product award at the just-completed Storage Visions conference.

“It joins an elite group of companies that are advancing the state of the art in storage technologies utilized in the media and entertainment industries and providing visionary products for the digital content value chain.”

Amplidata’s AS36 scale-out object storage system allows CIOs to meet Big Data-sized demands for storage at unrivalled cost-effectiveness. By using Intel processors and advanced software techniques that further capitalize on Amplidata’s patent-pending BitSpread erasure coding technology, the AS36 system makes it even simpler for IT managers to handle extremely large data objects with ultra high-durability. In conjunction with Amplidata’s BitSpread, the AS36 provides data durability to 15-9s –the highest data durability on the market. Amplidata’s AS36 is also a core technology employed in Quantum’s new LATTUS™ wide area storage solutions for big data management and archive.

“We commend Amplidata as a winner of a 2013 Storage Visions award,” said Thomas Coughlin, founder of Coughlin Associates who sponsors Storage Visions along with the Entertainment Storage Alliance. “It joins an elite group of companies that are advancing the state of the art in storage technologies utilized in the media and entertainment industries and providing visionary products for the digital content value chain.”

About Amplidata

Founded in 2008, Amplidata provides AmpliStor® optimised object storage solutions for Big Unstructured Data. Its patent-pending BitSpread® erasure coding technology provides the highest storage reliability and performance at the lowest possible cost - scaling beyond petabytes and requiring 50-70% less storage capacity to protect data compared to traditional solutions.

The Amplidata team consists of storage experts behind the success of DataCenter Technologies, Dedigate and Q-layer. Named a “Cool Storage Company” in 2012, Amplidata is privately funded by Intel Capital, Quantum, Swisscom Ventures, Endeavour Vision and Hummingbird Ventures. Operational headquarters are in Lochristi, Belgium with US headquarters in Redwood City and sales and support worldwide. www.amplidata.com.

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