Promise Technology Joins The Green Grid

MILPITAS, CA, Aug 27 (MARKET WIRE) --
Promise Technology, a global innovator of enterprise-class RAID storage
technologies, today announced its membership in The Green Grid, a global
consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and
business computing ecosystems. Promoting the adoption of energy efficient
standards, processes, measurements and technologies, The Greed Grid is
comprised of an interactive body of members who share and improve current
best practices around data center efficiency. The Green Grid's scope
includes collaboration with end users and government organizations
worldwide to ensure that each organizational goal is aligned with both
developers and users of data center technology.

"Promise Technology is very pleased to be a part of The Green Grid and its
quest to improve overall data center efficiencies," said Sam Sirisena,
general manager of Promise Technology's Advanced Storage Group. "As a
major supplier of enterprise-class RAID solutions, we hope to do our part
to advance the innovations for improving energy-savings in the data
center. As storage needs grow, so do the requirements for green
technologies to minimize our environmental footprint and IT costs."

The Green Grid seeks to provide industry-wide recommendations on best
practices, metrics and technologies that will improve overall data center
and business computing energy efficiencies. By joining The Green Grid,
Promise Technology is helping influence both developers and end users of
data center technology.

"As a contributor member of The Green Grid, Western Digital is pleased to
be an essential partner of Promise Technology. Together, we can offer
solutions that meet the low-power, high-efficiency demands of the modern
data center. We are committed to working with Promise Technology to
support the goals of The Green Grid," said Tom McDorman, vice president
and general manager, Enterprise Storage Solutions Business Unit, WD.

About Promise Technology

Promise Technology, with over 15 million RAID installations worldwide, is
committed to customers' data protection needs by delivering fault tolerant
storage products across all market segments. Promise has a comprehensive
SAS/SATA storage product line including rack-mount RAID enclosures for SAN
and DAS applications, PCIe RAID controllers for servers and workstations,
NAS systems for SOHO and RAID ASICs for embedded applications.

Headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., the company has ISO-9001 certified R &
D centers in the United States, Taiwan and China, and has sales and
marketing offices worldwide. For more information, visit Promise
Technology's website at www.promise.com.

Editorial Contact:
Sylvia Chansler/Jackie Zerbst
MPowered PR for Promise Technology
pr@mpoweredpr.com
714.998.3448

Promise Contact:
Keith Parker
Senior Manager, Marketing
Promise Technology, Inc.
www.promise.com
keith.parker@promise.com
408.228.1545

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