August 14, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center products provider Rackable Systems (rackable.com) announced it intends to divest its RapidScale line of storage solutions, a business line that includes patents, hardware assets, a development team and ongoing business relationships.
The company decided to seek strategic alternatives for the RapidScale product, as discussed on its recent Q2 earnings call. Rackable secured Strategic Advisory Services International as the financial advisor.
The company says its RapidScale solution delivers high levels of performance while improving capacity and performance scalability, ease of data management and capacity utilization.
Additionally, RapidScale's clustered file system solutions provide high performance I/O connectivity between servers and commodity-based storage subsystems.
The RapidScale solution features parallel architecture for near-linear scaling, a patent portfolio covering key technology benefits, distributed parity engine offering high availability, and a world-class engineering team with significant experience.
Rackable Systems' storage portfolio also includes Linux and Microsoft Windows ready integrated and network storage servers, which offers considerable configuration flexibility, and high power efficiency and density.
The solutions are available with a choice of AMD or Intel processors, a range of chassis profiles including Half-Depth and Standard-Depth, 2U or 3U rack-mount chassis, and up to 18 hot-swap SAS or SATA II disk drives.
Rackable Systems provides ecological servers and storage products for large-scale data center deployments.
Last month, IBM announced it has signed an agreement that will allow Rackable to offer IBM's BladeCenter servers inside its ICE Cube modular data centers.
