ADIC Scalar
i500 Tape Library Wins International Awards; Recognized in China for
Innovation, Advanced Technology, and Performance
REDMOND, Wash., Apr 11, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC), the leader in
Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions for the open systems market, today
announced that the company's new midrange tape library, the Scalar i500,
received two prestigious awards from leading IT publications in China.
ADIC's Scalar i500 has earned Product of the Year honours from China
Computerworld and the Editor's Choice Award from the China Centre for
Information Industry Development (CCID) and its affiliated publication,
China Information World
China Computerworld, China's largest IT publication
with a circulation of more than 200,000 readers, named ADIC's Scalar i500
midrange tape library a recipient of its Product of the Year Award for 2005.
This annual product award is judged by a combination of senior product and
technical editors and independent IT analysts on the basis of technical
innovation, performance, quality, ease of use, and total ownership costs
The China Centre for Information Industry Development
(CCID) is widely recognized as one of China's largest and most influential
information service organizations, and its publication, China Information
World, is one of China's leading IT publications. CCID storage experts and
editors from China Information World compared products from major vendors on
the basis of performance, functionality, market response, performance/price
ratio, service, and ease of use and awarded the Scalar i500 their Editor's
Choice Award in the Storage category
"We are pleased to receive accolades from leading
publications like China Computerworld and China Information World, and
organizations like CCID," said Bill Britts, ADIC Executive Vice President
for Products, Sales, and Service. "These important industry awards attest to
the Scalar i500's global market acceptance and ADIC's dedication to
providing industry-leading storage solutions."
The Scalar i500 tape library platform is the first in
the industry to offer growing midrange environments the combination of
flexible scalability and integrated intelligence needed to improve the
effectiveness of backup. ADIC's Scalar i500 is also the first midrange
library to offer integrated support for the Storage Management Initiative
Specification (SMI-S) standard. SMI-S support allows the library to be
discovered and managed directly by third-party Storage Resource Management
tools, including EMC(R) ControlCenter(TM).
