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News Release For Immediate Release
J-W Operating Company Chooses Siafu Swarm™ iSCSI Storage Appliance for IP SAN
Leading Data Protection Value Added Reseller Integrates Swarm Appliance into Energy Services and Development Company Storage Network Poway, CA, August 16, 2006 - J-W Operating Company, an energy services and development company headquartered in Addison, TX successfully integrated the SW3200 Siafu Swarm iSCSI storage appliance into an IP SAN in their Addison, TX headquarters location. Leading the installation and integration effort was Strategic Storage Solutions, Plano, TX, a supplier of industry leading backup and recovery solutions that fit into most work environments. Poway CA based Siafu Software is the leading developer of easy-to-install, easy-to-manage iSCSI solutions for affordable IP storage. J-W Operating Company’s IP storage area network is based on a new generation of iSCSI storage appliances that finally deliver on the technology’s promise.The IP SAN became operational on July 15th, 2006 at J-W Operating Company’s Addison office, assisted by Siafu’s founder and CEO, John Matze, a well known and highly respected member of the iSCSI community. Says Joel Wolfe, Director of Information Technology at J-W Operating Company: “We wanted to take advantage of the cost savings and operating efficiencies of storage networks, but Fibre Channel products were more complex and expensive than we liked. The Siafu Swarm delivers all the SAN functionality we wanted at a very reasonable price.” Siafu Swarm storage appliances are built to take advantage of Microsoft’s industry-leading software iSCSI initiator that is included without extra charge in Windows operating systems. Siafu Swarms provide affordable storage and high-end storage services to Microsoft, Linux, Solaris and NetWare servers. Strategic Storage Solutions (SSSI) supplied the hardware, software and installation assistance for the new SAN. According to SSSI President Tim Neary: “Siafu is finally making iSCSI-based storage an affordable mainstream storage alternative. The Swarm gives our customers a powerful new tool to more effectively and efficiently manage their data storage and data protection processes.”Siafu Software is the latest venture by the company’s founder and CEO, John Matze, a well known and highly respected member of the iSCSI community. Says John Matze: “Siafu’s sophisticated but easily managed iSCSI storage finally delivers what mid-sized businesses like J-W Operating Company have been waiting for: IP storage with high-end features delivered at IP prices.” About J-W Operating CompanyJ-W Operating Company is a privately-held energy company composed of five primary business lines specializing in Energy Services and Energy Development. J-W Operating Company has over 1200 employees located in over 50 offices throughout the mid-continent area. Headquartered in Addison, TX with regional offices in Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas, Utah, North Dakota, New Mexico, West Virginia and Wyoming, the company is active in many phases of the oil and gas industry.
About Strategic Storage Solutions
With more than 25+ yrs of storage experience, Strategic Storage
Solutions is able to offer industry leading backup and recovery
solutions that can fit into most work environments. Today we are
offering best of breed solutions that include protected storage
appliances, disk based backup and recovery appliances, archive
appliance, a full SAN solution, backup software, and tape library’s
and media. With these products and a knowledgeable sales group we
can work with you to add value to any data storage infrastructure,
solve today's biggest storage challenges, and create simple,
affordable, and complete storage solutions. Please visit our website
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