iQstor Networks, Inc., a leading developer of intelligent and integrated Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, announced today that the company’s iQ2850 iSCSI storage system has been certified for use with VMware Infrastructure 3. Based on this completed interoperability testing, iQstor’s iQ2850 will now be included in the Storage / SAN Compatibility Guide for VMware ESX 3.5, a part of VMware Infrastructure 3, as a supported storage platform. This flexible, cost effective solution will be publicly demonstrated at VMworld 2008 – the nation’s premier technology event for virtual infrastructures - in the New Innovators section, booth 540-N6, from September 15 to 18, 2008.

The iQstor iQ2850 iSCSI SAN is easily installed in under twenty minutes -- simplifying integration and accelerating migration into virtual environments. By deploying the iQ2850 with VMware Infrastructure 3, IT managers are able to leverage a simple, flexible virtual storage solution that can scale easily and affordably to meet changing business requirements.

“iQstor delivers a powerful virtualized storage platform for VMware customers requiring true enterprise-class data protection with full redundancy and remote-site disaster recovery capabilities,” said Jason Lo, President and CEO of iQstor Networks. “Combining our iQ2850 and VMware ESX Server 3.5 offers users the ability to leverage the industry’s most cost-effective and efficient iSCSI SAN solution to provide a highly available and consolidated virtualized server and storage infrastructure.”

iQstor’s iQ2850 iSCSI SAN includes integrated data protection and management features such as storage virtualization, snapshot, volume-copy, remote replication, storage provisioning and policy-based capacity growth. The iQ2850 provides simple storage consolidation, enabling virtual infrastructures to improve storage utilization and data protection methods, facilitate disaster recovery and optimize virtualized server availability and workload migration. Each iQ2850 offers seamless and affordable online capacity expansion - up to 240 drives - and features eight iSCSI host ports for flexible, multi-host accessibility. iQstor’s fully redundant active-active architecture provides a complete and fault-tolerant SAN.