Zetera Makes Top Ten Startups List; Byte & Switch Names Storage-over-IP Innovator as a Company to Watch. Check it out:
IRVINE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Sept. 21, 2006 -- Zetera Corporation, a developer of breakthrough network storage technology, today announced that it has been selected by Byte & Switch, a TechWeb publication, as one of the storage industry's "Top 10 Startups to Watch." Zetera views the recognition as a positive addition to the many accolades and endorsements it has received since its Z-SAN(TM) Storage-over-IP (SoIP) SAN technology was introduced to the consumer and business markets over the last year.
When compiling its ten startups list, Byte & Switch editors looked for companies that offer game-changing ideas about storage, the data center and content management, and might be spawning the next big innovation. Other criteria included Series A funding within the last two years and a "really interesting gamble or a creative take on the myriad of technologies that inhabit the storage market."
"The industry has been buzzing with excitement about Z-SAN since we first announced the technology to the public less than two years ago," said Chuck Cortright, Zetera's president and CEO. "Part of our success stems from the rapid adoption of its Z-SAN technology, mostly due to the high performance, scalability, ease of use and affordable cost it brings to storage devices. The other part is due to our devoted team and talented inventors who created a stunning new architecture that is well on its way to transforming the storage market."
This year has marked several significant milestones in the adoption of Z-SAN, as evidenced by Zetera's recent announcement that more than 100,000 SAN devices based on its technology have shipped worldwide since their debut in September 2005; as well as the building of a 1.4 petabyte storage array for a research project at MIT which uses the same low cost Z-SAN enclosures that are being sold to the small business market.
Z-SAN helps manufacturers take full advantage of the digital media revolution, which is fueling rapid growth in the storage sector. Unlike any other storage technology in the market, Z-SAN simultaneously optimizes the four fundamental factors that drive the success of a network storage system - scalability, performance, reliability and cost. As home and business users demand solutions that make storing, sharing and protection of their growing volume of digital content easier and less expensive, Z-SAN enables OEMs to build products that deliver all of the benefits of an enterprise-level SAN without the expense or complexity.
Byte & Switch's "Top 10 Startups to Watch" can be read in its entirety at http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=103313.
About Zetera Corporation
Zetera Corporation is the developer of Z-SAN(TM), a SoIP (Storage over Internetworking Protocol) technology that enables networked storage to be realized at unprecedented price-performance levels. The technology was invented by the creators of the IDE and ATAPI disk drive standards, which have shipped in billions of disk drives. Leveraging the latest IP advances, Zetera has created a new class of network storage technology that is superior in performance, cost, scalability and compatibility to all other types of network storage. Based in Irvine, California, Zetera licenses its technology to leading storage, computer, peripheral and device manufacturers worldwide, including NETGEAR and Bell Microproducts. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.zetera.com.
Zetera(TM) and the Zetera logo are trademarks of Zetera Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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