Drobo S Among Finalists in “Best Business Storage” Category

LONDON, UK – May 21, 2010 – Data Robotics, the company that delivers the best data storage experience, today announced that Drobo S has been nominated as a Macworld Awards 2010 Editor’s Choice product in the “Best Business Storage” category.  The companies nominated for Editors’ Choice awards are chosen by the Macworld editorial team (along with input from Macworld's sister titles: Digital Arts, iPad & iPhone User, and MacVideo.tv) and include established industry leaders as well as smaller companies offering cutting-edge Mac products.

“We are excited that the Macworld Awards 2010 selection team has identified Drobo S as an easy-to-use, fast and reliable business-class data storage solution with all of the automation and simplicity that Drobo fans are accustomed to,” said Tom Buiocchi, CEO of Data Robotics. “The Macworld nomination strengthens our position that Drobo S is ideal for small to medium-sized businesses, small office/home office users, and creative professionals who generate large quantities of data that need to be kept secure for both short and long term storage.”

The full list of nominations can be found here: http://www.macworld.co.uk/digitallifestyle/news/?newsid=3221303

About Drobo S:
Built on the company’s award-winning BeyondRAID virtualised storage platform, which provides unprecedented ease-of-use and eliminates the lock-in of traditional RAID configurations, Drobo S features self-healing data protection and a one-click toggle between single- and dual-drive redundancy for configurations up to 10TB. The five drive Drobo S supports on-the-fly capacity expansion along with the flexibility to replace failed drives, add drives, and swap out drives of varying sizes from disparate vendors without ever losing access to data and with zero downtime.  Drobo S features enhanced FireWire 800 performance along with native eSATA support for maximum performance with demanding applications such as high-definition video editing.