Taipei, Taiwan, January 2, 2007-- Areca Technology Corporation (Areca), a global leading provider of PCI-X, PCI-Express SATA ll RAID adapter, services and solutions for customers. Today announced that Areca range of drivers have successfully passed stringent interoperability tests to become Novell YES CERTIFIED, ensuring the highest level of compatibility with its customers working on SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 platforms. Novell will start to ship the Areca driver in SLES 10 SP2. Areca drivers source code have been accepted in the 2.6.19 kernel.
Novell YES certification testing and using the YES mark helps customers easily identify and purchase third-party hardware and software products that are proven compatible with Novell product lines, including both SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server and NetWare. The YES mark is recognized around the world as the mark of a specific product’s compatibility with Novell products.
"We are proud that Areca drivers have received the 'YES Certified' mark and with the Yes certification guarantee, Areca can achieve given the popularity and installed base of Novell platforms." said Billion Wu, CEO, Areca Technology Corporation. "In addition, our drivers bring superior flexibility to customers set up on system. We provide the concepts and the hardware to accommodate ever-changing customer expectations."
Customers can feel comfortable that Areca drivers are compatible with Novell. Areca provides the most complete of driver features in the storage industry and eliminates constraints to increasing per driver profitability.
Areca Technology Corporation designs and manufactures storage products for virtually all areas of the storage market including DAS, NAS, and SAN. All PCI, SCSI, and Fiber Disk Array Controllers support RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 1E or JBOD. The company also produces its own custom ASIC, a high-speed IDE controller, and a RAID 6 engine on their controllers to achieve high data throughput and availability. Areca has completely committed its highly skilled research and development effort to disk array technologies that yield the fastest performance, best reliability and lower cost points than competitive disk array solutions. Areca Technology is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. http://www.areca.com.tw