Exanet
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| Type | Privately-held company |
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| Industry | Data storage devices / Computer Storage |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Founder(s) | Giora Yaron |
| Headquarters | Raanana, Israel |
| Key people | Mark Weiner, CEO |
| Products | ExaStore, ExaFS distributed file system, ExaSync |
| Website | www.exanet.com |
Exanet Ltd., (Founded 2000, closed 2009) was a software company which provides scalable network-attached storage software solutions to OEM partners. Exanet storage system solutions are hardware independent. Their clustered NAS software storage solution provided single file system scalability, and was compatible with Linux, Mac, and Windows operating systems. After the company went into temporary receivership, on February 19, 2010 Exanet's intellectual property was acquired by Dell.
ExaStore had the following components:
- ExaStore software
- Intel-based servers (nodes)
- Standard gigabit or 10 gigabit Ethernet networking components
- Fibre channel attached storage array
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[edit] Product Development
In 2003, ExaStore started shipping. In January 2006, Exanet joined the Intel Storage Community.[1] In November 2006, Exanet introduced ExaStore-ICM, providing automated data storage and delivery services across a wide range of enterprise platforms.[2] In March 2008, Exanet introduced its total solutions: ExaStore Clustered NAS system and ExaStore Clustered NAS Server
[edit] Products
Exanet was an OEM provider of enterprise storage software called ExaStore. Exanet also provides high performance clustered NAS solutions to end customers
[edit] Locations
Exanet was headquartered in Israel with offices in the USA, UK, Germany, France, Ukraine, and Japan.
[edit] Temporary Receivership
On the 12th of December 2009, the company went into temporary receivership, after failing to secure an additional round of financing. The company IP was later acquired by Dell Inc, for $12 Million[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Grid Today
- ^ Preimesberger, Chris: "eWeek", November 27, 2006
- ^ Dell Acquires Exanet
