Neterion, Inc. Announces iSCSI Support for I/O Intensive Applications

Industry's First iSCSI Network Adapter That Enables Virtual Machines to Run at
10GbE Line Rate
CUPERTINO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Neterion, Inc. today announced that its 10GbE products enable virtual IP Storage
solutions for I/O intensive applications.

Virtualization has become an integral part of data center deployments. This
trend is driven by the need to reduce both capital and operating expenses in the
current economic climate. The virtualization of the infrastructure is allowing
IT administrators to consolidate server infrastructure and reduce costs while
enhancing service levels. The next step in this paradigm shift is to couple
storage virtualization with server virtualization. This allows for the
next-generation data center to have a tightly integrated virtualization platform
across servers and storage which enable a highly available, scalable, and
manageable environment.

Neterion`s multifunction and Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) compliant
10GbE products enable virtual guest environments to run iSCSI at or near 10 GbE
line rates. Neterion`s network adapters work both in legacy hypervisors and are
future proofed to work in up coming SR-IOV compliant hypervisors.

Neterion partnered with RisingTide to bring this capability to the market, which
enables Red Hat`s Kernel Based Virtual Machine (KVM) to deliver measured >8 Gb/s
throughput from KVM guests running RisingTide`s iSCSI Initiator and Target.

"This represents the best performing IP Storage connectivity for KVM guests in
the industry," said Marc Fleischmann, CEO of RisingTide Systems. "It
compellingly demonstrates that Neterion`s 10GbE adapters and Rising Tide`s iSCSI
software can now deliver a level of IP Storage performance that was previously
only available in non-virtualized environments."

Greg Scherer, Chief Technology Office of Neterion, Inc. said, "This is a
milestone and increases the density of Virtual Machines (VMs) by an order of
magnitude, thereby decreasing the cost per VM by >90%. This improvement in the
economics of the data center will redefine the hosting industry."

Configuration details:

The systems were running Fedora 11 x86_64 Preview with KVM-85+ patches on a
v2.6.30-rc3 virtualized host. The KVM guests were Debian 5 x86_64 v2.6.29 acting
as Linux/iSCSI Initiators and Targets. The open source iSCSI Target software
used was RisingTide`s LIO-Target v3.0. The open source iSCSI Initiator software
used was RisingTide`s Core-iSCSI v1.6.2, running on Intel Nehalem SMP (Xeon)
machines with Neterion X3110 10 GigE NICs, running the in-box Netdev driver.

About Neterion

Neterion is the leader in I/O Virtualization for 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters
that provide high speed solutions for server and storage systems. Xframe and
X3100 Series are the industry's highest performing line of 10 GbE adapters,
allowing IT managers to virtualize many more applications per physical server -
including the most I/O-intensive ones - drastically decreasing costs when
deploying virtualized servers. The company was founded in 2001 and is
headquartered in Cupertino, California with an additional office in Ottawa,
Canada. More information on Neterion, Inc. can be found at www.neterion.com.

The Neterion, Xframe, IOQoS, Hy-O and VLT names and logos and combinations
thereof, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Neterion, Inc. All other
names are for informational purposes and may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

About RisingTide

RisingTide Systems is a leading provider of IP Storage software. Its broad
open-source IP Storage software suite delivers best-in-class performance,
scalability, compatibility and reliability at lowest cost through generations of
open-source software. It is used by the world`s leading cloud computing
companies and content distribution networks to significantly increase their
computing density and storage scalability. The company was founded in 2008 and
is headquartered in San Ramon, California, with an office in Stuttgart, Germany.
For more information, please send email to info@risingtidesystems.com.

Neterion
John Hagerman, 408-366-4639
Vice President, Marketing & Business Development
John.hagerman@neterion.com
or
RisingTide
Marc Fleischmann, 503-577-5354
CEO
mwf@risingtidesystems.com

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