Cutting Edge Networked Storage and Leading Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Company Esri Collaborate to Deliver the Grab and Go Portable Appliance to Customers  

EL CAJON, CA - (PR Newswire) – July 18, 2012 – Cutting Edge Networked Storage, www.cuttedge.com, is now manufacturing the Windows based Grab and Go Portable Appliance for Esri.

Cutting Edge Networked Storage, the manufacturer of Esri’s popular Windows based Servers Preloaded with ArcGIS for Server and Esri’s Data Appliance for ArcGIS has added an option for a portable version called the Grab and Go Portable Appliance. The Grab and Go Portable Appliance will accommodate ArcGIS for Server 10.1, Microsoft SQL Server and the Data Appliance for ArcGIS and can be pre-loaded and pre-configured for easy set-up and installation, lessening the burden on IT managers.

“Cutting Edge is pleased to see our alliance grow with Esri and we are committed to providing innovative, transportable appliances that are easier to use, meeting needs for both secure and high performance scalable computing in an organization’s GIS,”   said Cutting Edge CEO, Michael Ehman. 

Dean Garner, Esri’s Hardware Solution Sales Manager, said, “The new Grab and Go Portable Appliance provides a compact, field deployable solution to meet the demanding conditions from emergency first responders to any GIS portable enterprise need.  This new appliance provides a high performance purpose-built combination of hardware, software and imagery available to the GIS community and we are pleased to have Cutting Edge Networked Storage as the manufacturer of this new portable solution.”

About Cutting Edge Networked Storage

Cutting Edge Networked Storage has developed fault tolerant and fully redundant high performance open standards and open source storage systems and storage appliances for government and enterprise-level customers since 1992. From fixed low cost storage solutions, customized data protection and unified storage management solutions and secure computing consulting, Cutting Edge is an industry leader for iSCSI, IP SAN, Networked Attached Storage (NAS) and Direct Attached Storage (DAS) products including the new Power Saving Cloud Archive (PSCA). For more information please visit www.cuttedge.com or contact Cutting Edge at 619-258-7800, Ext. 210 or review our solutions during the Esri UC 2012 booth #816.

About Esri

Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS technology, Esri software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at esri.com/news.

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