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Company OPTION+ Location Nanterre and Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, France Contact www.optionplus.com Primary Focus Systems integrator with a strong focus on advanced storage To Learn More: Barracuda ES The Barracuda ES drive is the highestcapacity SATA drive available today for enterprise business requirements. The Barracuda ES drive features capacity from 250 GB to 750 GB, industryleading reliability and sustained high performance in server and storage systems with multiple drives. Find out more about the Barracuda ES drive at www.seagate.com/products/ enterprise/barracuda_es.html. "The performance, capacity and reliability of the Barracuda ES are a great fit for almost any customer application." Arnaud Bordalis, chief executive officer, Option+ Case Study Systems Integrator Has to Deliver Fast, Reliable Networks After testing, Option+ selects the Seagate Barracuda ES drive for all critical customer environments Since its founding in 1987, Option+ supports the information technology needs of businesses and public-sector organizations. Option+ has offices in Nanterre and Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, France. Most of the company's clients are national and international companies, universities and governmental entities. In addition, Option+ engages with smaller, growing businesses. For most of its clients, Option+ delivers a full spectrum of infrastructural services, including network planning and design, implementation, and integration and after-sales support. Option+ also provides the hardware that clients need: servers and workstations running on the UNIX, Windows and Linux operating systems; data collection and visualization hardware; and storage management systems and software. The company's clients need to manage and keep available vast, increasing volumes of information. Therefore, Option+ maintains a strong focus on data storage. Option+ supplies data archive and library systems, network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) hardware, external disk drive storage systems, redundant array of independent disks (RAID) systems and more. For Option+ clients, reliable availability of data and information is critical. Says Arnaud Bordalis, chief executive officer at Option+, "Our customers rely on us to build completely reliable, fast networks. For that reason, we need to use the most dependable and best-performing storage systems as possible to house customers' critical data." Competitive Testing Demonstrates the Value of the Seagate Barracuda ES Drive Many Option+ clients rely on RAID configurations to help protect their data and applications. The company always aims to supply them with the most reliable, fast and economical hard disk drives for these RAID systems, and conducts thorough testing to determine which drives Option+ should recommend and install. Option+ evaluated the Seagate® Barracuda ES drive, a Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive with generous capacities ranging from 250 GB to 750 GB. Option+ technicians reviewed the drive's performance in RAID environments on Sun SPARC stations, running on Solaris 8 and 10, and on Intel and AMD platforms running on Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems. Option+ tested