Lake Mary, Florida-based RAID storage supplier nStor Corp has acquired Borg Adaptive Technologies Inc, the developer of Adaptive RAID, a RAID system that dynamically determines the optimal RAID level required for a particular task. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Adaptive RAID, which sounds somewhat similar to Hewlett-Packard Co’s AutoRAID, takes the decision about what RAID level is required away from the user by making intelligent adaptations to changes in the I/O workload and patterns. Borg, based in Bolder, Colorado, says the system eliminates many of the RAID-5 write penalties encountered on many RAID systems, speeding up disk array performance by between 30% and 100%. NStor claims Adaptive’s technology represents next generation RAID, and has further possibilities as part of single and shared server storage applications, storage area networks and network attached storage systems. NStor is establishing a new engineering facility at Borg’s Boulder headquarters, which will be run by Borg president David Stallmo. nStor started life as Conner Peripherals Inc’s Storage Systems division, before being bought by Seagate Technology Corp, which then decided it did not want to keep it and spun it out as nStor, selling 80% of it to a shell company with cash, Imge Inc (CI No 2,940). Adaptive RAID appears to have nothing to do with the technology of the same name, trademarked by Seek Systems Inc, of Bothell, Washington.
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