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NewsBot Date: February 13, 2007 05:00:00 AM
IBM News Crosswalk Earns Key Endorsement from IBM
WESTMINSTER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Crosswalk®, Inc., the innovator of intelligent storage grid systems that transparently scale performance, access to data, capacity and resiliency, today announced that their revolutionary iGrid™ Intelligent Storage Grid System has been designated “IBM Ready for Grid Computing” by IBM (NYSE: IBM).
IBM Ready for Grid is both a program and a process that ensures an application is capable of executing and realizing benefits from running in a grid computing environment. As a member of the IBM Ready for Grid Computing program, Crosswalk provides customers with the assurance that the grid functionality found in the iGrid Intelligent Storage Grid System has been analyzed and verified as Ready for Grid by IBM, resulting in more reliable implementations.
“The IBM Ready for Grid Computing validation is an important endorsement of the iGrid Intelligent Storage Grid architecture and Crosswalk’s commitment to ensure organizations around the world experience substantial benefits by implementing grids in critical business processes to achieve both business and technology benefits,” said Jack McDonnell, Crosswalk’s founder and CEO. “This validation also ensures that iGrid can seamlessly integrate and interoperate with the broad portfolio of IBM technology and ISV partner products, so IBM Business Partners and our mutual customers can implement iGrid into new and existing grid computing environments with confidence and peace of mind.”
About Crosswalk, Inc.
Crosswalk® delivers an innovative storage architecture that integrates the simplicity of network-attached storage with the performance advantages of parallel file systems to create the first storage grid that can support both high performance computing and enterprise datacenter environments. The iGrid™ Intelligent Storage Grid System provides a single shared view of storage, thereby eliminating the complexity associated with managing traditional storage architectures. Performance, access to data, and storage capacity can scale in a non-disruptive fashion regardless of the number of applications, servers, or storage devices it supports. For more information, visit www.crosswalkinc.com.
About IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key business partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable companies to take full advantage of the on demand era. For more information about IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com. For more information about IBM Grid Computing, visit http://www.ibm.com/grid.
