Capricorn Technologies' Partners

CKEY Networks offer cost effective feature rich communications equipment from a select group of leading manufacturers. In planning, procuring, implementing and maintaining your networks, you need network equipment and tools that have proven performance and clear advantages over others. Whether you are planning to add additional incremental bandwidth or an entirely new network, we can offer you choices that will save you time and money over the lifecycle of your data equipment.

Based in Ottawa, CKey is Capricorn’s authorized representative for the Canadian market. To contact CKey Networks, please visit www.ckeynetworks.com.

Nevoa Networks, founded in 2005, is a company specializing in the development of storage resource management and virtualization solutions. Our mission is to provide our customers with the means to take better advantage of their resources, extracting more value from their current IT investment and improving their data management strategies. Our products and solutions are backed by five years of research and extensive testing in the fields of distributed systems and networked storage. The resulting technologies can be found in the largest research centers of North America and Europe. Nevoa Networks is the first to offer commercial solutions based on these techniques.

Nevoa Networks is Capricorn’s authorized sales agent for Brazil. Please visit their pages at www.nevoanetworks.com.

Serious Systems Inc., a minority-woman owned small business, buys both direct from the manufacturer and through mainstream distribution channels. Our business was created as a data storage and networking sourcing partner for any organization requiring leading technology at the best possible price. With over ten years experience in computer hardware, software and systems integration, Serious can work with you to intelligently and readily translate your data equipment requirements and offer a broad range of options that precisely meet your needs. Our products & solutions are purchased by small, medium, and large corporations, universities, state and local government agencies, research and defense labs, and other institutions across the U.S. To learn more about Serious Systems products and services, visit www.serioussys.com.

Caringo’s CAStor teamed with Capricorn Technologies offers a disruptive product to store fixed content. CAStor offers high performance, guaranteed integrity, seamlessly scalable fixed content storage for a price that’s up to 10 times lower than what most clients are paying. Traditional vendors offer complex solutions intricately tied to proprietary hardware. These offerings are expensive, slow, difficult to use and develop for, endanger data integrity, limit your upgradeability and are not very scalable.

Caringo's approach offers a better choice. It is software based and runs great on all Capricorn Technologies platforms. It can start small and grow with your business. Or it can start large and grow even larger. Our pay-as-you-grow model makes it the most affordable CAS based storage on the planet. CAStor brings you the performance of primary storage with the integrity of archival storage.

To learn more about Caringo, CAStor and fixed content storage, please visit www.caringo.com.

CSRware offers a software solution to track, quantify and report on Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability in a repeatable manner. Our Enterprise Sustainability Management software solution is offered to the enterprise using the triple bottom line metrics of economic, environmental and social performance. In addition, our Professional Services group bridges the gap between Facilities Management, Data Center Operations and Information Technology organizations offering energy efficient solutions and standards while adding environmental management expertise to find more cost effective ways to reduce environmental impact. CSRware addresses 21st century challenges for the enterprise by finding more efficient ways of doing business in a world with limited natural resources and a thirst for economic growth. Please visit our website at www.csrware.com for more information.

MRPath, founded by experts in the field of Magnetic Imaging Technologies, provides software and services inspired by their work with the National Cancer Institute and the National Toxicology Program.

The MRPath founders were initially motivated by a desire to make available a heretofore expensive and specialized imaging capability to a broad community of users in research and industry. In addition to expertise in MR microscopy, the company offers other imaging modalities, the management of image-intense databases, and their integration within protocols and studies. This experience working with scientific imagery, along with their interest in developing services and products that enable their customers to leapfrog the imaging learning curve, allows the company to bypass the efficiency drain of data storage and image processing, and eliminate imaging equipment compatibility headaches. These goals led to the creation of a software product line that can reduce their customers’ costs, increase the amount of time available to researchers to focus on knowledge generation and meet regulatory requirements.

For more information on MRPath solutions, please visit www.mrpath.com

Nevoa Networks, founded in 2005, is a company specializing in the development of storage resource management and virtualization solutions. Our mission is to provide our customers with the means to take better advantage of their resources, extracting more value from their current IT investment and improving their data management strategies. Our products and solutions are backed by five years of research and extensive testing in the fields of distributed systems and networked storage. The resulting technologies can be found in the largest research centers of North America and Europe. Nevoa Networks is the first to offer commercial solutions based on these techniques.

The Nevoa Storage System (NSS) enhances your existing storage infrastructure by allowing you to consolidate and amortize your storage assets across multiple users and applications using storage virtualization. The result is an improved return on investment and future procurement flexibility. NSS allows you to manage and configure various RAID structures spanning multiple servers in order to deliver optimal performance and manageability. For example, NSS can unite various storage devices to increase the amount of disk spindles that serve a particular application. The result is a significant improvement in transactional performance. For heterogeneous multi-site environments, you can leverage your infrastructure to create geographically diverse, high availability solutions. In addition, NSS allows you to integrate other technologies such as SATA RAID and existing FC RAID storage solutions, or define your own customized reliability strategies using a mixture of hardware solutions and existing TCP/IP networks. In order to ensure simplified administration, the Nevoa StorCore™ component of NSS provides a single logical repository for all resources that make up your storage fabric. StorCore features a secure web-based graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI provides an easy- to-use interface that simplifies daily operations and allows you to intuitively perform management tasks from a computer or PDA.

For more information on the Nevoa Storage System, please visit www.nevoanetworks.com, or read their white paper

Founded in 2003, Righteous Software is a provider of automated disk-based solutions for web servers and continuous data protection software for Linux and Windows. The company offers low cost, high-performance, scalable products that have been recognized by industry leaders as the backup standard.

Righteous Software is a Capricorn Certified Solutions Partner offering both software-based backup applications and backup appliances to their clients.

For more company, product and pricing information, pleased visit www.r1soft.com.

Computing is emerging as a third paradigm for discovery, complementing theory and experiment.

ACCRE offers computing resources flexible enough to enable High Performance Computing applications in a wide variety of research projects. To support a rapidly increasing need for data storage, they are developing and deploying means for on and offline data repositories. Additionally, they provide the hardware necessary to enable investigators to visualize their high-dimensional data using parallel graphics and stereo projection technologies. ACCRE infrastructure includes the necessary expertise and support staff to facilitate use by assisting with lowering the barriers to use and expanding the paradigm to include new and non-traditional areas of investigation.

Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is a leading global provider of innovative processing solutions in the computing, graphics and consumer electronics markets. AMD is dedicated to driving open innovation, choice and industry growth by delivering superior customer-centric solutions that empower consumers and businesses worldwide. For more information, please visit www.amd.com.

ASUS, a technology-oriented company blessed with one of the world's top R&D teams, is well known for high-quality and innovative technology. As a leading provider of 3C (computers, communications and consumer electronics) total solutions, ASUS offers a complete product portfolio to compete in the new millennium.

In 2005, ASUS shipped 52 million motherboards, which means one out of every 3 desktop PCs sold last year was powered by an ASUS motherboard.

To learn more about ASUS’ complete line of products,
Visit: www.asus.com

CLOCKSS, hosted at Stanford Library, is a not-for-profit, community-based initiative among publishers and libraries to build a trusted, distributed dark archive in order to protect online scholarly content from catastrophic events and other long-term interruptions. CLOCKSS stands for “Controlled LOCKSS” (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), which underlies a core value of this initiative – distributed governance and administration.

The CLOCKSS dark archive can be considered an extension of the institutional stewardship role that libraries have collectively played for the printed format – to preserve digital content for the world wide research community now and into the future.

To learn more about CLOCKSS,
Visit: www.lockss.org/clockss

Since its founding in 1910, Hitachi has acted from a corporate philosophy of contributing to society through technology. In the intervening years, the world and society have changed greatly, but we have never lost our pioneering spirit, based on the principles of harmony and sincerity.

Now, as we embark upon the new century, global change is becoming ever more dynamic. We have adopted the phrase "Inspire the Next" as a declaration of our vow that the Hitachi brand will meet the expectations of our customers and society in this new age. This statement embodies Hitachi's commitment to continue to inspire coming generations with the latest products, systems and services, for a more vibrant society. It is also an expression of our strong commitment to boldly face whatever new challenges the times bring us: whatever comes "Next." For more information, please visit www.hitachi.com.

The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization founded to build an Internet library with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle, the Archive has been receiving data donations from many institutions. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, software, and over 85 billion archived web pages.

Capricorn Technologies traces its roots to the Internet Archive. In December of 2003, Brewster Kahle contacted his longtime friend C.R. Saikley with a proposal: develop the Internet Archive’s next-generation storage system. The system would have to be inexpensive to manufacture and operate, it would have to be reliable, and with a target of 1PB, it would be massive. Much of the success of the new design would hinge on staying within a tight power budget. The critical goals of the Internet Archive for high storage density, reliability, and low operating and cooling costs are all dependent on low power consumption. The team achieved its goals with a 100TB system that was placed in service in June of 2004. At that same time, Kahle and Saikley began discussing ways to make PetaBox technology available on a wider scale, and Capricorn Technologies was formed. Capricorn began operations shortly thereafter and shipped its first products in September of 2004.

Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disc drives, providing products for a wide-range of applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate's business model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, and to be the low cost producer in all markets in which it participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world's growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at www.seagate.com.

VIA Technologies, Inc. is the foremost fabless supplier of market-leading core logic chipsets, low power x86 processors, advanced connectivity, multimedia, networking and storage silicon, and complete platform solutions that are driving system innovation in the PC and embedded markets.

VIA offers the richest blend of silicon solutions from a single vendor, supporting the full spectrum of x86 technologies from the highest bandwidth I/O to the greatest resolution displays, and from the highest bit-rate audio to the most power efficient, smallest and lowest profile processors. VIA also designs complete, highly integrated and ultra compact platforms featuring VIA silicon building blocks, the VIA EPIA series of Mini-ITX and Nano-ITX mainboards. A full introduction to the VIA product portfolio may be found at http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/.