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Nexsan Technologies’ SATABeast disk-based backup and fixed content storage product with AutoMAID was awarded the Green Product of the Year. AutoMAID is Nexsan’s own enhancement of MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disk) technology that places disk drives into several levels of energy savings without compromising application performance. This powerful combination of high performance with energy saving capabilities enables users to lower the cost of owning storage. In cooperation with Channel partner NCE Computer Group, Nexsan also picked up the Green Project of the Year award as the storage backbone of an overall 100 TB plus solution provided to the Honda Racing F1 Team.
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Pentadyne Power Corporation, the world’s leading manufacturer of flywheel clean energy storage systems, has eclipsed Active Power as the world’s number one producer of flywheel energy storage systems. For the first half of 2008, Pentadyne has shipped 34% more flywheel systems than the former market leader, Active Power. Pentadyne systems are more energy efficiency than that of Active Power. In fact, they use 90% less standby energy than the Active Power CleanSource flywheel, apart from requiring fewer, shorter and far less costly maintenance.
NetApp’s NetApp® FAS series storage systems has been named 2008 “Products of the Year” in the Networked Storage category by eWeek Channel Insider. The NetApp FAS storage systems offer a single unified architecture across all tiers of storage and allow customers to readily consolidate direct-attached storage (DAS) for virtualized servers into a single networked solution and scale on demand. The systems offer unmatched business agility, superior application uptime, simplicity of management, and breakthrough value for enterprise customers. The eWeek Channel Insider 2008 Product of the Year is the latest in a string of honors this year for NetApp FAS systems. Earlier this year, the NetApp FAS2000 series was named the winner of the Silver Award in the Disk and Disk Subsystems category of the Storage magazine SearchStorage.com “2007 Products of the Year” awards, and the FAS2020 was named “Best Unified Storage Solution of the Year” by InfoWorld.