About Aberdeen

COMPANY HISTORY

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES

PRODUCT OVERVIEW

ABERDEEN BACKGROUND

Founded in 1991 Leading manufacturer of Servers and

Storage Serving the World from Southern

California Industry leading 5 Year Warranty on all

custom servers and configured storage, free of charge.

Highly rated and reviewed in the press

“Aberdeen thinks big.” — PC Magazine

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Over 130,000 active customer accounts in every major industry

63% of Fortune 100 companies use Aberdeen custom servers and

storage

9 of the top 10 resellers in the USA have partnered with Aberdeen, selling Aberdeen servers and

storage units to their valued clients


ABERDEEN CUSTOMERS

Ultimate Linux Server: Aberdeen Stonehaven A261T — Linux JournalCRN Test Center Recommended: Aberdeen Stonehaven A381 — CRNHonorable mention: Aberdeen Stirling 229 2U Server — PC Magazine


Aberdeen custom servers and storage continue to make headlines in the leading industry magazines, journals and technical websites.

IN THE PRESS

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AWARD WINNING

“Finalist — Best Servers: Aberdeen Stonehaven A261”— LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards

“Four and a half stars: Aberdeen Stonehaven A261S 2U Server”

— PC Magazine

“Four stars: Aberdeen AberNAS 211”— PC Magazine

“The results were eye-opening. The Aberdeen Stonehaven A261S garnered the highest WebBench numbers we have

seen to date.” — PC Magazine

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Consistently viewed by the press as worthwhile alternative to Dell, HP and IBM

Only four server vendors in 2008 PC Magazine – Dell, HP, IBM and Aberdeen

Only five server vendors in 2003 annual PC Magazine server roundup– Dell, HP, IBM, MPC (formerly Micron) and Aberdeen

MARKET POSITIONINGAberdeen is a valuable player in the server and storage market even up against industry giants like HP and Dell. We offer niche products like our Linux based NAS and we were proudly one of the first server companies to become VMware certified. More than ever companies in all industries are in search of the same high level products, first class service and support with a more competitive pricing, making Aberdeen a perfect fit for the solutions companies are looking for. Boasting 10 years under our belt in the server and storage market, we go head-to-head against Dell, HP and IBM everyday…and WIN


THE ABERDEEN ADVANTAGE

THE BEST IN PERFORMANCE

“The Aberdeen Stirling I tested is one powerful beast”

– PC Magazine

WORLD CLASS SUPPORT

“The five-year parts-and-labor warranty is the most generous

we’ve seen” – PC Magazine

AFFORDABLE PRICING

“Delivers an awful lot of bang for this buck”

– Linux Journal

A Full 5 Years from Date of Shipment on ALL fully configured Servers & Storageo Return to Factoryo All parts included and coveredo All labor included and covered o Access to the Aberdeen Technical Team (email/phone)

o Monday-Friday 6am-6pm PSTo Access to Aberdeen customer service and sales support

o Monday-Friday 6am-6pm PST

30 Day Advance Exchange Replacement program Low-Cost Spare Parts Program OptionalExtended Advance Exchange OptionalOn-Site Warranty Service Optional


WARRANTY & SUPPORT

Custom configurationServersStorage ServersNetwork Attached StorageWorkstations

Switches, KVMs, UPSs Software installed, tested and ready Built, configured, tested and supported in the

USA Pre-wired, pre-configured, plug and play Palletized and shipped anywhere in the world


ABERDEEN SOLUTIONS

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Whether your requirement is driven by physical size, storage capacity, performance, price or all of the above, Aberdeen stands uniquely ready to custom tailor computer servers and storage servers to precisely meet your exact needs. Aberdeen offers a vast array of cost-effective, high performance, high reliability general purpose servers and storage servers. Regardless of the size of your company or magnitude of your requirements, Aberdeen can customize servers to meet your exact needs.

Starting with anything from a 1U, all the way up to an 8U form factor, you can build upon one of our barebones configurations or customize your server from the ground up. We are so confident in the quality of our servers; every Aberdeen server ships with our industry leading 5-year warranty. Complete customization, ultra high performance and unparalleled reliability at a highly competitive price.March 2010

ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL.

ABERDEEN SERVERS

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CUSTOM SERVERS: 1U & BEYONDCustom 1U Servers: Entry level up to High Performance• Options: Intel or AMD/ Expandability / Redundancy / Price• SATA, SAS, SCSI and Fibre available. Solid State Drives (SSD) also

available

Dual & Quad Node Systems: Manage up to 4 nodes in a single system• Quad Nodes allows for up to 8 processors and 32 cores in 2U.• Cable-less, hot-swap and hot-pluggable make management easy

Workstations: Tower & Rack Ready• Ultra-quiet designs / Multi-Core Ready / Expandable / Redundant• Upgradeable graphics, memory & processor = MORE POWER!

Custom Storage Servers: Up to 100TB in a 8U • 3U, 5U, 6U and 8U form factors / Redundant / Reliable / Award

winning • Expand beyond 300TB using external SAS connections to MORE

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ABERSAN: ZFS SHARED STORAGE

Scalability: With AberSAN Z-Series you can scale performance the same way that you scale performance of other applications by adding to hardware performance by increasing memory available or CPU performance or the number of targets available. Multi-level data protection: AberSAN Z-Series protects your organization's data with features and capabilities ranging from the most granular, per transaction data integrity checks to higher level backup and disaster recovery capabilities.Inherent virtualization:

AberSAN Z-Series is built from the ground up on the revolutionary file system ZFS which means that virtualization is at the core of AberSAN Z-Series. This virtualization enables thin provisioning and also improves performance via I/O pooling. This means that when you add more disks or systems to AberSAN Z-Series the overall solution accelerates. Another benefit of AberSAN Z-Series is that it can run within VMware or other virtualized environments.


The AberSAN Z-Series products come standard with: Shared pools of storage from any combination of

hardware Unlimited snapshots and clones Unlimited file size Block and file based replication End to end data integrity Thin provisioning Integrated search Hybrid storage pools via automated use of SSDs Virtualization management Cloud ready storage capabilities In-line Deduplication iSCSI Target Capable

ZFS: STORAGE WITHOUT LIMITS

Target FC

High Availability

Plugin

Continuous Data

Protection

VM DataCenter

(VMDC)

File Sharing Support

Advanced Backup Utility

•Additional AberSAN features can be included at the time of purchase or at a later date

CUSTOM ABERDEEN

STORAGE


STORAGE: NAS/SAN/DAS

AberNAS• 1U up to 8U options• Intel Quad-Core Power • Windows & Linux OS • Customizable to your

needs• Expandable to over

400TB

XDAS• Fibre, SAS, iSCSI, SATA • Redundant Controllers• Expandable to over

400TB• Snapshots, SMS and

more• Fast, Reliable &

Respected

Aberdeen SAN• Basic & redundant

solutions• Server + Switch +

Storage• Cabling and HBAs

included• Redundant RAID storage• OS and Platform

IndependentPOWERFUL. RELIABLE. AFFORDABLE.


Aberdeen LLC9130 Norwalk Blvd.

Santa Fe Springs, CA90670-2534

Sales: 800-552-6868 Direct: 562-699-6998

Fax: 562-695-5570

Sales Hours: M-F, 6am-5pm PST

GSA Contract: #GS-35F-0849RGSA Pricing Schedule

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