Amplidata Tech Tour Finalist
Amplidata announced today that the European Tech Tour Association has selected Amplidata as a Finalist to present at the prestigious ETT Cloud & ICT 2.0 2010 Summit.

LOCHRISTI, BELGIUM, December 01, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Amplidata, an innovator in next-generation distributed storage technology for public and private clouds, announced today that the European Tech Tour Association has selected Amplidata as a Finalist to present at the prestigious ETT Cloud & ICT 2.0 2010 Summit.

"The Amplidata employees are proud to be selected by the European Tech Tour Association as one of the 25 European leaders in the Cloud Computing & ICT space. This nomination recognizes the scope of our innovation and the impact it will have on the storage industry. The market urgently needs an alternative to RAID systems to build large-scale and reliable storage infrastructures, and that is exactly what we can offer," said Wim De Wispelaere, CEO Amplidata. "As the capacity of standard hard disk drives has grown beyond 2TB, the RAID disk protection technology has become less reliable. We have created BitSpread technology that offers a full alternative to RAID" and delivers greater levels of data protection.

The ETT Cloud & ICT 2.0 Summit is the Catalyst of the Cloud Computing Industry in Europe. Its focus is on celebrating entrepreneurship and innovation in Europe and on raising global awareness for the 25 most promising European start-up companies in the cloud computing field, introducing them to key European, US and Asian investors and professionals who can assist in their global expansion. The Summit was held on November 17-18 in Lausanne and Geneva (Switzerland).

At the summit, Amplidata demonstrated the customer benefits of its technology:

- AmpliStor stores data 10,000 times more reliably than alternative RAID and replication-based solutions.

- The solution reduces overall power cost by a factor 10 as the BitSpread encoding requires less disk capacity and the AmpliStor storage node consumes only 20% of the power compared to typical storage servers.

- Amplidata's storage is multi-petabyte scalable by simply adding storage nodes, which allows scaling beyond petabytes without having to grow your storage team.

- Amplidata is especially popular for cloud computing environments. The scalability, availability and cost-efficiency of the solution make it extremely useful for online storage services such as backup and archives, online media applications etc. The early successes are mainly with public computing cloud providers, but enterprises too are showing big interest in the technology for their private cloud implementations.

"The promise of Cloud Computing is that tremendous business advantages can be obtained by sharing applications, platforms, servers, storage and applications over the Internet," says Pierre Liautaud, President of ETT's Cloud & ICT 2.0 Summit. "Amplidata was selected to present at the Summit because they are one of the few companies successfully creating a storage platform that meets the requirements of cloud computing: always online, scalable, reliable and inexpensive."

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