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Performance Storage System basics

Serial ATA (SATA) is a new technology, viewed by storage and IT industry experts as the most extensive interface transition in the last 25 years of storage history. SATA is specifications-based, and supported by every major disk drive vendor, desktop/server OEM, and relevant component suppliers. Industry analysts expect it to be adopted in virtually all desktop workstations and about 50% of enterprise servers by 2005. Proximity Data has built a business around this large-scale technology transition as it presents an unprecedented opportunity for the company to deliver innovative, best-in-class engineering design concepts and practical SATA solutions to its clients.

Proximity Data is currently offering an advanced, highest performance oriented line up of SATA solutions, ranging from SATA Host Bus Adapters, (PCI-X and cPCI), Interconnect Assemblies, through a complete, enclosure-based Network Storage Solution, custom-designed and offered to select Original Design Manufacturers or Electronic Manufacturing Services Companies, or other Business Partners, needing a time-to-market and cost advantage.

Proximity Data adheres to the goal of making its solutions unique in providing to a select group of clients:


This approach allows the company to deliver high value to its clients’ end-user customers. The attractiveness of Proximity Data as a strategic technology solutions design partner to its clients is in its highly competitive, and customer value driven technology vision and roadmap, which is available to select clients on a semi-exclusive basis.

Proximity Data has also developed a unique vision of taking SATA to the next level, rather than treat it only as the new standard of storage interconnects. Proximity Data has created a very compelling and highly rationalized technological vision of a “Serial ATA Storage Building Blocks” concept, offering customers an extremely economical storage system that is unified and simplified, highly modular, scalable and easily configurable. This type of storage system will allow customers to merge primary on-line storage with near-line storage, backup and archiving in a single enclosure, or a bigger system through aggregation of modular components.

Proximity Data, Inc. was founded in January 2003. The company’s management team consists of industry experts with a track record of success in managing start-ups in like or related fields through engineering innovation, general management, business strategy development and its execution. It is lead by Mr. Zbigniew Sobolewski, the Founder of Proximity Data, as well as, previously, of Lefthand Networks, a venture-backed, network storage company located in Boulder, Colorado.

Proximity Data works with leading technology vendors, incorporating their technology elements into its engineering designs. These vendors include Intel, Vitesse Semiconductor,  Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Maxtor, and Seagate Technology and many others.