Promise Strategic Solution & Technology Alliance Partner Program
As a global leader in RAID storage, Promise Technology works with a number of select partners to bring our customers best in class solutions. We work closely with these partners to offer our mutual customers the performance, compatibility, ease of use, and reliability that they demand.
The Technology Alliance Partner Program is open to select industry partners and offers the opportunity to work with Promise to demonstrate compatibility and interoperability. The Technology Alliance Partner Program also offers different participation levels to provide Promise partners the opportunity to engage in strategic co-marketing and promotional opportunities. Below, please find a brief description and requirements for each participation level to determine which level is appropriate for your organization.
Technology leaders committed to working
with Promise as Strategic Solution & Technology Alliance
Partners include:
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"As the industry's leading server and storage enclosure solutions provider, AIC has been in partnership with Promise Technology in providing Storage Solution Reference to storage professionals, "said Gene Lee, Vice President. "AIC is working hand-in-hand with Promise on system interoperability and validation testing to ensure quality and assurance to our customers."
AIC is known as the industry's leading designer and manufacturer of rack-mount Server and Data Storage enclousure solutions. Combining the leading technologies, innovative monds, and manufacturing capabilities all under one roof, AIC provides total solution from bare metal to the electronics, cooling design, and to system-level validations.
www.aicipc.com
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Akiwa Technology products are perennially acknowledged by industry manufacturers as one of the earliest industrial rackmount chassis. With over 35 years in manufacturing, we strive to provide quality custom computer enclosures in storage, clustering, networking and wall-mounts. Our focus is to provide you with quick service along with quality manufactured enclosures.
We have been working in conjunction with Eric Natividad from Promise Technology for the past year to ensure our storage enclosure and backplanes are performing at their peak performance with the latest Promise HBAs. Promise Technology has placed themselves in a good position to learn about the consumer's needs and proactively sought to develop interoperability between our enclosures and their controller cards.
www.akiwa.com
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"Alacritech's
strategic partnership with Promise enables
joint customers with end-to-end hardware
accelerated iSCSI connectivity in both
the initiator and target," said
Ben Barnes, vice president, Sales and
Marketing, Alacritech Inc. "Alacritech's
iSCSI Accelerators on the server side
running in conjunction with Promise's
VTrak M-Class storage systems provide
customers with proven, efficient, resilient
iSCSI SANs and maximum ROI."
Alacritech is the world’s
leading supplier of TCP Offload Engine
(TOE) products and technology that
enable the highest performance and
efficiency in networked systems. Alacritech’s
complete line of Accelerators is based
on the company’s patented SLIC
Technology® architecture to optimize
data delivery in servers, network-attached
storage and iSCSI storage devices.
www.alacritech.com
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“As
a leader in storage solutions, Promise
is a natural partner for meeting the
high bandwidth and high capacity storage
needs demanded by audio professionals.”
During the past
10 years Echo Digital Audio has become
a leader in designing and manufacturing
products for the professional audio
and home entertainment markets, providing
advanced desktop audio solutions for
the rapidly improving digital media
market.
www.echoaudio.com
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“Fujitsu
introduced the first 2.5" serial
ATA (SATA) and small form factor (SFF)
serial attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk
drives and we are excited to work with
partners like Promise to bring these
solutions to the market" said Joel
Hagberg, vice president of marketing
and business development, Fujitsu Computer
Products of America, Inc. "The
inherent advantages of serial interfaces
coupled with small form factor design
allow our partners to manufacture compact,
space efficient storage products, including
notebooks and storage towers, as well
as non-PC devices.” Fujitsu
Computer Products of America, Inc.
has been producing hard disk drives
for more than thirty years and offers
a wide range of data storage products
targeted at everyone from individual
consumers to Fortune 500 companies.
In recent years Fujitsu has proven
itself as the leader in emerging interfaces
and form factors, delivering the market's
first 2.5" Serial ATA (SATA)
and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard
disk drives.
www.fujitsu.com
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"Hitachi
is a hard disk drive performance and
capacity leader. We are pleased to be
collaborating with Promise to deliver
enterprise storage solutions that are
easy to manage, with minimal cost and
complexity. IT managers that are deploying
the new SATA-based systems will benefit
from reduced cost of ownership and increased
return on investment.” Becky Smith,
VP of Marketing, Hitachi Global Storage
Technologies Hitachi
Global Storage Technologies’
goal is to enable users to fully engage
in the digital lifestyle by providing
access to large amounts of storage
capacity in formats suitable for the
office, on the road and in the home.
The company offers customers worldwide
a comprehensive range of storage products.
www.hitachigst.com
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ICY DOCK, the innovator of removable drive storage devices, with over 10 years manufacturing experience specializes for industrial system builders and enterprise with diversity application for better hard drive management solutions. ICY DOCK revolutionized the art of hard drive removal with innovative concepts and simplicity in our rapidly improving Data Storage market.
" ICY DOCK has been working closely with Promise Technology on product Certification to ensure the products compatibility, also developing solutions that bring the value of RAID and SATA technology to our mutual value customers. "Jack Liu, ICY DOCK, Director of Business Development.
www.icydock.com
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"The
Promise FastTrak S150 TX2plus and S150
TX4 PCI SATA controllers have been certified
by Matrox for realtime video editing
with Matrox RT.X -based systems."
Matrox Video Products Group is a technology and market leader in the field of HD and SD digital video hardware and software for realtime editing, DVD authoring, capture/playout servers, clip/still stores, and CGs. Matrox's Emmy award-winning technology powers a full range of content creation and delivery platforms used by broadcasters, post-production facilities, project studios, corporate communicators, and videographers worldwide. Founded in 1976, Matrox is a privately held company headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
www.matrox.com/video
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“Maxtor
and Promise work together in conjunction
with testing and developing solutions
that bring the value of SAS and SATA
technology to enterprise storage customers,”
Kevin Wittmer, senior director of technical
marketing at Maxtor Corporation.
Maxtor disk drives are
everywhere -- in homes and cars, in
small businesses and large enterprises
-- storing the digital world for millions
of users. Maxtor's broad product line
includes drives and accessories for
PCs, workstations, RAID systems, enterprise
applications and servers high-end
systems, consumer electronics and
personal storage.
www.maxtor.com
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“Mimosa Systems, a market-leader in live content archiving solutions, including email, teams-up with Promise Technology Inc. to bring customers scalable, cost-effective email archival storage solutions. Together, our companies offer unified email management solutions ranging anywhere from 50 to 100,000 mailboxes, running on trusted storage devices such as the Promise VTrak E-class high-availability RAID subsystem."
Learn more about Mimosa at www.mimosasystems.com
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“QLogic
and Promise work closely together to
offer seamless interoperability and
support between their FC and iSCSI product
lines. This includes mutual integration
with the QLogic SANsurfer Express applications
which incorporates powerful, easy-to-use
wizards to simplify storage management
tasks, reducing overall storage management
costs.” Over
50 million QLogic products have shipped
inside servers, workstations, RAID
subsystems, tape libraries, disk and
tape drives. Powering solutions from
the industry’s leading storage
network providers, QLogic’s
broad line of controller chips, host
bus adapters, storage network switches
and management software move data
from storage devices through the network
fabric to servers.
www.qlogic.com
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“US
R&D center of Storage System Division
of Samsung Electronics worked closely
with R&D center of Promise from
2002 and seamlessly integrated Samsung's
low power and quiet SATA drives into
Promise servers/cards. Samsung is currently
shipping 3Gb/s SATA drives with NCQ
for home server and RAID applications.”
Samsung Electronics
Co. Ltd. (SEC) is one of the top-ten
electronics manufacturers in the world
and an acknowledged leader in the
digital convergence revolution. With
the wide acceptance of graphical interfaces,
multimedia, videoconferences, networking,
and storage intense programs, the
hard disk drive is the most popular
mass data storage device available
today. SAMSUNG's Hard Disk Drive Research
and Development (R&D) facility
resides in San Jose, California, the
heart of the Silicon Valley.
www.samsung.com\products
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"Seagate
Serial ATA 3Gb/s disc drives will power
new levels of performance for bulk storage,
digital video workstations, entry-level
servers and workstations, and other
bandwidth-intensive environments,"
said Joni Clark, Seagate Serial ATA
marketing manager. "We are pleased
to team with Promise to highlight the
capabilities of Serial ATA 3Gb/s.”
Seagate is the
world’s leading provider of
hard disc drives, delivering products
for a wide range of Enterprise, Desktop,
Mobile Computing, and Consumer Electronics
applications. Seagate leverages its
technology leadership and world-class
manufacturing to deliver industry-leading
innovation and quality to its global
customers.
www.seagate.com
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"Tabernus
has worked with Promise’s HBAs
to create unique testing solutions.
By working with Promise, we’ve
manufactured software products that
have significantly contributed to customer
satisfaction through outstanding achievements
in the areas of cost, quality, lead
time and strategic technical capabilities.”
Marissa Ponikvar, Tabernus VP of Sales.
Established in
1990, Tabernus, LLC is an international
software development company specializing
in SCSI, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SATA,
SAS, and related diagnostics and testing.
www.tabernus.com
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"Tyan
has been in partnership with Promise
Technology for many years, bringing
new storage technologies to our joint
customers for a wide range of applications.
Our interoperability efforts have been
the basis for many design wins, providing
customers the technology and market
leadership in their respective segments,"
stated John Nguyen, Channel Sales Product
Manager/Product Marketing Manager, Tyan
Computer Corporation. Tyan
Computer Corporation, founded in 1989,
designs, manufactures and markets
innovative server, workstation and
desktop systems and platforms. Tyan
system board products are sold to
OEMs, Systems Integrators, VARs and
Resellers worldwide. Tyan enables
its customers to be technology leaders
by providing scalable, highly-integrated,
reliable platforms for a wide range
of applications such as high-end server
and workstation usage in markets such
as CAD, DCC, E&P and HPC.
www.tyan.com
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"WD
has been working closely with Promise
Technology to lead the adoption of SATA-based
enterprise systems. Together WD and
Promise are working to ensure the compatibility
and interoperability of our enterprise
SATA products to benefit our mutual
customers.” Hubbert Smith, WD’s
director of enterprise management.
WD helps people and organizations
collect, preserve, manage and use
digital information by creating cost-effective
products and services that manage
digital content in secure, reliable,
personalized and easily accessible
ways.
www.westerndigital.com
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For more information on our
Strategic Solution & Technology Alliance Program:
Billy Harrison, Strategic
Alliance FAE, E: billyh@promise.com
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