Wipro Infotech Unique Server Storage Solution Selected for Intel Global Innovation Award Among Intel Worldwide OEM/ODM Partners

Wipro Infotech, the India and Middle East IT Business of Wipro Ltd and a leading provider of IT and business transformation services announced that it has won the prestigious Intel Global Innovation Award for Storage at the Intel Developer Forum 2008 in San Francisco.

Businesses today are encountering rapid increase of digital data. Growth in existing applications like messaging, databases and emerging rich-media applications make it imperative for businesses to enhance their computing and storage needs. Adding to that are new regulatory requirements and business continuity plans which are leading organizations to have a comprehensive and scalable storage system.

Wipro identified a distinct gap in today’s storage needs and solutions offered in the market. Driven by internal R&D focus, Wipro has invested more than 1500 person hours in developing this unique storage-server solution that addresses this need. Wipro has made substantial investments in financing and staffing the project.

Wipro drives innovation as a fundamental business enabler. Wipro has global partnerships with clients and technology partners to drive innovation across different business and technology bottleneck areas. NetPower Storage-Server is one of the most recent successful outcomes of the Applied Innovation framework. Wipro has invested exclusively in a state of art Product Engineering and development cell – The Eminence Lab at its Pondicherry facility. This platform from Intel was developed, integrated, tested and certified on leading industry storage practices for supporting file share protocol services over IP at Wipro Eminence Lab.

NetPower Storage Server is a secure, reliable and flexible computing and storage-server platform/solution which integrates with industry standard storage management software to deliver a flexible all-in-one unified DAS/ NAS/ SAN storage solution. It is cluster ready for High Performance Computing users and is scalable to several Petabytes.

Supporting up to 12 enterprise-class SAS or high-capacity SATA hard drives, the Wipro NetPower Storage-Server is a high performance, flexible platform enabling enterprise–class computing and storage for small and medium businesses. Ideally positioned for mid-market customers looking for a server and entry/mid range storage solution, the Wipro NetPower Storage Server is a dual purpose server within a single box (compute and storage in one box) and is ideally priced as well for large enterprises.

The product starts delivering a storage capacity of 12 terabytes on an enterprise class SATA drive populated and up to 6 terabytes on SAS platform.