CORK, Ireland and CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif., August 10, 2011 - MPSTOR (http://www.mpstor.com/) and EchoStreams (http://www.echostreams.com/) today announced that they have formed a strategic partnership to provide solutions for data center and cloud environments. MPSTOR’s popular open-platform storage management software MPStackware^TM combined with EchoStreams’ standards-based and purpose-built hardware platforms help server and storage OEMs and solution integrators build reliable, scalable, and cost effective infrastructure.

“Today’s IT environment is evolving quickly and it can be economically challenging for organizations with expensive and proprietary server and storage infrastructure,” said Brian Garett, vice president, ESG Labs, Enterprise Strategy Group. “MPSTOR and EchoStreams are providing custom data center compute node and storage solutions based on open standards that are specifically designed to drive costs down. Their combined software and hardware solutions play a critical role for enterprises dedicated to offering attractive and affordable data center and cloud services.”

Open-platform Software Stack

MPStackware’s open-platform, open-Application Programming Interface (API) product architecture allows it to turn commodity disk arrays into fully featured, high value, data storage systems while removing the fear of vendor lock-in. MPStackware’s open-API facilitates integration with OpenStack and other data center operating systems, permitting MPSTOR to provide complete data center and cloud computing solutions.

Unlike proprietary storage solutions which lack flexibility and are difficult to integrate with third party applications, MPStackware’s open-API provides customers with the ability to design plug-ins and gives customers control over their solutions by supporting multiple host interconnects (FC, SAS, iSCSI, IB, CIFS), disk protocols (SAS, SATA, FC) and media types (magnetic and SSD).

“EchoStreams’ unique, off-the-shelf hardware platforms are a perfect complement to our open platform storage management software,” said Tony McEnroe, CEO of MPSTOR. “Our combined offering helps automate data centers and deliver process improvements designed to improve service quality and produce real savings.”

Purpose-built Server and Storage Hardware Platforms

EchoStreams provides purpose-built, very unique server and storage platforms for OEMs and solutions providers, and offers them as off-the-shelf solutions. With technologies that squeeze the most performance out of each watt of energy and maximize existing computing capacity, EchoStreams is helping its customers do more with less. EchoStreams’ portfolio of pre-tested application-specific product families includes:

• DURAStreams™ - Converged H/A redundant server storage platforms
• FLACHEStreams™ - High performance, SSD, Flash-based caching appliance platforms
• SCALEStreams™ - High density, highly scalable storage platforms
• GRIDStreams™ - High density compute platforms for data centers
• OMNIStreams™ - Fully customizable innovative OEM appliance-builder enclosure solutions

“Both EchoStreams and MPSTOR are focused on solving issues that face the datacenter today,” said Andy Lee, managing director, EchoStreams. “By supporting OEMs and solution integrators of IT Infrastructures with breakthrough and disruptive technologies, we are enabling them to deliver unconventional solutions to solve conventional problems.”

Located in Cork, Ireland, privately held MPSTOR is a designer and supplier of data storage management software and solutions targeted for Cloud, Video, Telecommunications and other enterprise storage applications. MPSTOR’s flagship open-platform storage management software, MPStackware^TM scales from entry level to enterprise performance at cost effective prices and runs on standard Intel platforms.

EchoStreams is a leading provider of server, storage, and system packaging technologies for today’s fast growing vertical markets such as Cloud, Datacenter, Video/broadcasting and Telecommunications. EchoStreams is committed to providing its customers and partners with the highest quality purpose-built solutions on the market at the greatest value. For more information please visit http://www.echostreams.com.

The MPSTOR logo and MPStackware are trademarks or registered trademarks of MPSTOR. The EchoStreams logo, DuraStreams, FLACHEStreams, GRIDStreams and OMNIStreams are trademarks or registered trademarks of EchoStreams. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

Linda Capcara, Global Connect Communications (480) 229-7090, lcapcara@globalconnectpr.com