SANRAD Announces iSCSI Support For All Microsoft Windows Environments

SANRAD Inc., a leader in developing and delivering intelligent iSCSI SAN solutions and a member of Microsoft's iSCSI development program, today announced that their iSCSI V Switch supports the entire Microsoft Windows operating environment including the recently released Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2000, Windows XP, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server. As part of SANRAD's ongoing commitment to Microsoft and Windows enterprise customers, SANRAD is immediately shipping their iSCSI IETF RFC compliant iSCSI V Switch to companies installing IP based storage area networks for Windows.

"Windows Server 2003 embodies new and enhanced storage capabilities and features that promote improved data availability," said Zane Adam, Director of Product Management and Marketing of the Enterprise Storage Division at Microsoft Corp. "The Windows Server 2003 platform coupled with iSCSI IP-based SAN technology from storage partners like SANRAD will provide customers a robust, integrated solution for managing data and storage together."

The combination of Windows 2003 new array of storage management features and SANRAD's iSCSI V Switch storage architecture delivers a highly available, scaleable and easy to manage IP SAN solution for Microsoft's enterprise-class and mid-tier customer base who require performance, security, investment protection and reliability within a networked storage architecture. By using Windows and an iSCSI V Switch, users can consolidate servers and diverse storage systems in an easy to manage storage area network (SAN).

Windows optimizes cluster services for the deployment of mission critical applications over economical iSCSI /IP SANs. Yariv Glazer of system integrator YaGUSA together with Pradip Patel, of the ITcom at University of Michigan have been using Windows clusters with SANRAD's iSCSI V Switch to operate a new messaging service. "The new messaging system utilizes three Windows dual-node clusters connected using iSCSI to a failover pair of fault-tolerance iSCSI V Switches", comments Mr. Patel. "This close to a terabyte of multi-pathed and mirrored Fibre Channel disk storage provides voice mail storage space for the campus. The voice mail system is considered mission critical by the University. The configuration must be available 24x7 and comply with Telco specifications of less than 10 minutes of downtime per year or 99.999% availability. The combination of Windows-clustered servers, redundant active/active V Switches with multiple connections to the servers, and multi-path connections between the V Switches and the mirrored FC disk systems provide a highly available architecture. The V Switch¹s in-band volume virtualization provided clustered servers with a shared volume and enabled simple volume configuration, storage allocation and the addition of more disk drives and servers without having to interrupt critical applications."

Uli Gal-oz, SANRAD CEO comments "Microsoft and SANRAD are providing powerful data availability and storage management tools to mid-range and enterprise customers building or extending a storage area network. Windows Server 2003 storage features drives down overall costs while increasing productivity. Our iSCSI V Switch compliments all Windows products that support iSCSI by providing IP SAN participation to legacy SCSI DAS or FC SAN systems, active / active path failover for high availability, and non-disruptive provisioning and scaling of storage resources to 100's of TBs."

SANRAD has been delivering iSCSI Virtualization Switches for over a year. They are available thru SANRAD¹s global channel partners and OEM¹s. iSCSI V Switches introduce all-in-one iSCSI storage networking, guaranteeing the full availability and seamless management of stored information across standard Ethernet networks, affording a complete storage continuity solution, that is easy to deploy, with excellent price/performance. SANRAD iSCSI V Switches combine a truly interoperable, multiple-port iSCSI gateway with comprehensive storage Services for full block based data access, network volume management, storage continuity and traffic optimization, delivering a new dimension in the availability of vital business information using open iSCSI Storage Area Networks (IP-SANs).

Microsoft Enterprise Storage Division
Founded one year ago, Microsoft's Enterprise Storage Division was formed to bring greater focus to Microsoft's customers' increasingly complex storage requirements. The division is focused on three primary objectives: to make Windows a better platform for storage, to catalyze the industry to develop innovative storage solutions, and to bring to market Microsoft storage products.

Additional information on Microsoft's storage offerings can be found at www.microsoft.com/storage. When released, information on the iSCSI Designed for Windows Logo Program can be found at www.microsoft.com/winlogo/benefits/default.mspx. Additional information on IETF-ratified iSCSI can be found at www.ietf.org.

About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq 'MSFT') is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software ­any time, any place and on any device.

About SANRAD
SANRAD is an original equipment manufacturer and developer of the iSCSI V Switch. SANRAD was founded in 2000 and incorporated in Delaware, USA, with sales, marketing and support offices located in Silicon Valley / San Francisco Bay Area, CA. Research and development, EMEA and APAC sales offices are located in Tel Aviv, Israel, and include several joint development partnerships with US companies.

SANRAD¹s mission is to provide secure and manageable SAN solutions over LAN, MAN and WAN. SANRAD's resources are dedicated to the storage virtualization and management market.

SANRAD is a member of the RAD Group.

About the RAD Group
The RAD Group has founded 22 networking companies. It is one of the largest multi-national revenue producers in networking. 7 RAD-founded companies have traded on NASDAQ and 7 RAD-founded companies have developed into an M&A.