balesio Introduces Fma-4800 Series

Helping companies to increase the return on their existing storage investments, balesio AG, a provider of native format optimization solutions for unstructured data, has introduced its FMA (News - Alert)-4800 Series appliance.

With the FMA-4800 Series balesio provides storage capacity optimization through native data optimization. It is fully compliant and supportive to other storage technologies, the company stated in a press release.

Developed for unstructured formats such as Microsoft (News - Alert) Office files, PowerPoint presentations and images, the balesio FMA-4800 Series appliance features a comprehensive set of content-aware native optimization algorithms. While preserving the original file format, making a subsequent rehydration or decompression unnecessary, the technology reduces the footprint of these files by up to 50 times, the company has stated.

“Our customers had been asking for a solution that would combine software and hardware and this is what led us to create the FMA-4800 Series appliance,” said Christoph Schmid, COO at balesio. “Demand for storage capacity continues to grow at 60 percent per year and our technology will give enterprises the opportunity to further strengthen their storage reduction efforts. Users will be able to reclaim a significant part of their existing storage capacity.”

The balesio FMA-4800 Series appliance offers benefits such as lower storage and related acquisition and management costs; no need for rehydration; unstructured data storage requirements reduced by 50-90 percent; and preservation of the original file format. As the solution supports any type of storage and no infrastructure changes are necessary, the balesio FMA-4800 Series appliance is also extremely easy to install and use.

In 2008, Newton Peripherals, a developer of the revolutionary MoGo family of Bluetooth-enabled products, signed an agreement with Germany-based balesio, a major player in intelligent Internet software, to establish a marketing partnership. As part of the pact, the companies will partner to jointly promote Newton Peripherals’ MoGo Presenter Mouse X54, a combination Bluetooth-enabled wireless presenter and mouse, the company stated in a press release.


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Edited by Jennifer Russell