MTI Technology announced that Uproar chose MTI as the standard supplier of its high-availability enterprise storage solutions. Utilizing MTI’s Block and Backup Services, Uproar also is deploying MTI’s Phone Home feature for around-the-clock remote monitoring from MTI’s customer response center. MTI’s storage solutions provide Uproar with a scalable 6.5 TB fiber channel-based, high-availability solution supporting a Microsoft NT environment and Microsoft SQL Server 7 databases on a storage area network architecture. MTI storage solutions can be modularly expanded as Uproar’s needs continue to grow. “We anticipate a significant rate of growth and need a storage solution that can scale to meet this growth,” says Tibor Mozes, Uproar’s chief technology officer. “By leveraging MTI’s experience and knowledge to manage the storage solution, we can focus our operators solely on monitoring the applications we have developed.” With more than 7 million registered users and 3900 syndicated sites, Uproar produces a leading online entertainment destination that offers games and game shows.
