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SPINNAKER NETWORKS WINS FIRST INTERNATIONAL DEPLOYMENT

Spinnaker Networks, a leader in developing next generation distributed storage systems, has announced the implementation of two Spinnaker SpinServer 3300 Network Attached Storage systems for the search site of Free.fr, France's second-largest ISP.

Free.fr deployed the two SpinServers, each with 2TB of capacity, to serve as the NFS-based storage for dir.com, the company's search engine. Spinnaker's solution was ultimately chosen after Free.fr compared the SpinServer against products from other vendors, including Network Appliance.

"We chose to implement Spinnaker's SpinServer solution because of its exceptional performance, distributed architecture for future growth and its low total cost of ownership," said Antoine Levavasseur of Free.fr. "The fact that this one solution could bundle all of these advantages into its product made the decision an easy one for us."

"Our first international installation at dir.com is a major testament to the benefits of Spinnaker's SpinServer solution," said Ron Bianchini, president and CEO of Spinnaker. "Just as Free.fr tries to eliminate the barriers of Internet access to its users, we removed the traditional barriers to managing large-scale NAS assets by providing a cost effective way that simplifies storage management via a single file system across hundreds of NAS servers. We are pleased to partner with Free.fr to help enhance users' online experiences with innovative technology."

The SpinServer 3300 NAS Systems and Gateways consolidate the file services of any size enterprise by non-disruptively scaling a single file system from 1 terabyte to 11,000 terabytes of capacity and provide cost savings through simplified management and more efficient use of hardware resources. Near linear performance scaling inherent to the Spinnaker architecture delivers the ever-increasing throughput demanded by the file system as it scales. The Spinnaker architecture delivered the highest results ever posted on the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp (SPEC) System File Server 3.0 (SFS 3.0) test for NAS server performance, where the SpinServer 3300 recorded 31,876 IOPS in a single node test and 131,930 IOPS in a 6-node cluster test.