The Punch Paris Server software is an application level secure storage virtualization solution, which has up until now only been appropriate for larger-scale data center environments. However, since the initial introduction of the Paris Server in 1999, Punch Networks has gradually evolved its recommended Paris Server environment hardware configurations, based upon the company's experiences in deploying and maintaining customers as well as the company's own facilities.

All of the Punch Paris server packages consist of a base platform of standard high-end server hardware and Punch Networks' flagship software including Punch Paris 4.0 Platinum Edition. Upon engagement by a customer, Punch Networks staff will review of customer expectations for performance, scalability and fault tolerance, and then specifically prepare and verify each appliance before shipment and installation at a customer site.

Punch Networks President, Chairman and Founder, David Campbell, said, "With the introduction of our LM class family of Paris server packages, Punch Networks can now offer customers a broad range of scalable turnkey secure internet oriented file servers in compact, easy to deploy and easy to manage pre-configured packages."

Punch Paris LM5 Server Package
Punch Networks' largest pre-configured fully encrypted system is designed for the heavy usage corporate environments and Internet Web sites. The LM5 has an 8U form factor and includes redundancy capabilities, 4 GB RAM and dual Intel Pentium Xeon 1.5+ GHz processors. The package also features a dual-channel SCSI controller, external SCSI connector, dual 10/100 Ethernet NIC, and six Seagate Cheetah Ultra 160 SCSI hard drives that provide over 1 TB of local storage. A Paris LM5 Server stack can also be used as an application level in-band encrypted storage virtualization appliance in front of existing investments in heterogeneous multi-vendor storage systems, switches, hubs, servers and management software.

Punch Paris LM4 Server Package
A pre-configured fully encrypted system designed for mid-sized enterprise environments that includes dual 1.1+ GHz Pentium III processors, 2GB of RAM, dual-channel SCSI controller, dual 10/100 Ethernet NIC and six Seagate Cheetah Ultra 160 SCSI hard drives that provide up to 882 GB of local storage all in a 4U form factor.

Punch Paris LM3 Server Package
A pre-configured turnkey fully encrypted solution designed for smaller enterprise environments that includes a 4U form factor, dual Pentium III 800 MHz processor, 1 GB of RAM, dual 10/100 Ethernet NIC and five Seagate Barracuda Ultra ATA/100 hard drives that provide up to 300 GB of local storage.

About Punch Networks
Founded in 1995 in Seattle, Washington, Punch Networks is a global leader in secure Web-based file storage, collaboration and synchronization. Most of Punch Networks technology can be experienced directly over the web through its flagship retail service, Punch WebGroups. Punch Networks licenses Punch WebGroups as a retail or wholesale service provider and licenses the WebGroups' core Paris Server to companies and organizations for installation on their own networks. Punch Networks also has a full suite of client and server Software Development Kits and Application Programming Interfaces to allow third party developers to directly integrate many of the secure file storage and distributed synchronization features of the Paris Server into their own applications. For more information, visit http://www.punchnetworks.com, email info@punchnetworks.com, or call (206) 343-7661.