Rapid Medical’s Comaneci Adjustable Remodeling Mesh Exceeds 500 Successful Aneurysm Treatments

YOKNEAM, Israel, September 8, 2016

Innovative device for parent vessel protection during intracranial aneurysm treatment impacting lives around the world 

Rapid Medical, a company focused on the development of neurovascular interventional devices, announced today that the Comaneci Adjustable Remodeling Mesh has exceeded 500 successfully treated aneurysms worldwide. This milestone comes only two years after Rapid Medical launched the device in Europe.

The Comaneci is the first-ever adjustable, fully-visible remodeling device. It is intended to provide temporary assistance for coil embolization of intracranial aneurysms. It integrates the advantages of existing adjuvant devices without the risk of parent vessel occlusion during coiling procedure or the need for long-term antiplatelet medication in case of permanent stenting.

“With traditional balloon remodeling techniques, preserving constant flow into intracranial arteries is impossible. The availability of a fully-visible device that permits constant flow during the procedure was previously non-existent,” said Prof. Dr. Luca Remonda, Head of Neuroradiology, at Kantonsspital Aarau, Switzerland. “The Comaneci has become a standard tool in our practice and many of our patients have experienced its benefits.”

The Comaneci uses Rapid Medical’s FlexiBraid technology, a unique and proprietary braiding capability that allows the first fully-visible, controllable device that can be adjusted by the physician to perfectly fit the dimensions of parent vessels and the aneurysm neck.

Three versions of the device are currently available; each designed to treat aneurysms in different anatomical locations. The Comaneci and Comaneci Petit versions are delivered through a microcatheter with an internal diameter of 0.021″ and the Comaneci 17 version through a micorcatheter with an internal diameter of 0.0165″.

“We are very pleased with the rapid adoption of the Comaneci device, which is becoming a preferred tool in neurovascular practice,” said Eitan Havis, VP of Sales and Marketing. “We believe the combination of adjustability, visibility and compliance offered by the Comaneci is a critical part in successful aneurysm treatment.”

The Comaneci family of devices are available for sale in Europe and Israel. Rapid Medical plans to launch the Comaneci in additional regions in the coming months.

About Rapid Medical  

Rapid Medical is the developer of game-changing devices for endovascular treatments. This includes TIGERTRIEVER, the first-ever controllable, fully-visible retrievable stent, and Pele, a large lumen distal access catheter. TIGERTRIEVER, Comaneci, and Pele are CE marked for use in Europe. More information is available at http://www.rapid-medical.com.

Contact:
Eitan Havis, VP of Sales and Marketing
Rapid Medical
eitan@rapid-medical.com
+972-72-250-3331

Eindhoven University of Technology Selects Zadara Storage to Support 300+ VMware Servers

Eindhoven University of Technology Selects Zadara Storage to Support 300+ VMware Servers TU/e replaces CapEx storage with elastic, scalable OpEx-based Zadara Storage-as-a-Service IRVINE, CA – August 30, 2016 –

Zadara™ Storage, the award-winning provider of enterprise-class storage-as-a-service (STaaS) today announced that Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) has chosen the Zadara VPSA storage array architecture to support their TU/e campus and advanced research teams. By leveraging the Zadara Storage VPSA On-Premise-as-a-Service (OPaaS) solution, TU/e has been able to enjoy the benefits of a pure OpEx model supporting their internal clients, while keeping their data on-site within their data center.

Eindhoven University of Technology Selects Zadara Storage to Support 300+ VMware Servers TU/e replaces CapEx storage with elastic, scalable OpEx-based Zadara Storage-as-a-Service IRVINE, CA – August 30, 2016 –

Zadara™ Storage, the award-winning provider of enterprise-class storage-as-a-service (STaaS) today announced that Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) has chosen the Zadara VPSA storage array architecture to support their TU/e campus and advanced research teams. By leveraging the Zadara Storage VPSA On-Premise-as-a-Service (OPaaS) solution, TU/e has been able to enjoy the benefits of a pure OpEx model supporting their internal clients, while keeping their data on-site within their data center.

The Eindhoven University of Technology is located in the center of Eindhoven, the Netherlands and is currently home to about 255 professors, 10,100 students, 243 Ph.D. graduates, 1,250 foreign students and 3,145 regular employees. Yearly, the Eindhoven University of Technology produces almost 3,000 scientific publications, 140 PhD-awards, and 40 patents. As the storage needs of the university grew, each department procured, deployed and managed their own storage resources.

The inefficiencies of having separate storage arrays in data centers throughout the TU/e campus became apparent. Each storage array needed to be managed and maintained separately. Devices were over-provisioned with excess unused capacity. A change was clearly needed. After completing their due-diligence by evaluating proposals from each of the leading storage providers, TU/e chose Zadara as their storage partner. As Huub De Hesselle, Strategy & Policy Advisor for TU/e described, “once we reviewed the solutions in our tender, Zadara Storage offered the best fit.”

The Zadara Storage On-Premise-as-a-Service solution offered the following key benefits:

1. replaced CapEx storage with OpEx storage,
2. leveraged Storage-as-a-Service providing scalable, elastic storage services to TU/e and TU/e researchers,
3. reduced the maintenance overhead; and
4. ensured data availability and integrity through remote mirroring.

“Our data storage is the base of operations for nearly every application we run. It was critical that we chose the right storage solution,” said Thieu Mennen, Manager Back Office at TU/e. “By centralizing our storage services on Zadara Storage, we have increased our agility, reduced cost and improved data security.” “Zadara has proven to be a valuable partner throughout the deployment process by accommodating our unique needs and helping us define specific solutions to our challenges,” said Huub De Hesselle, Strategy & Policy Advisor at TU/e. “We were pleased to find a partner who has gone above and beyond our basic requirements.” “TU/e is an excellent example of an organization who has recognized the benefits of OpEx-based, Storage-as-a-Service,” said Dani Naor, vice president, international sales at Zadara Storage. “They were able to deploy an on-premise solution, providing scalable, elastic storage services to their internal clients and also protect against unexpected disasters with remote mirroring.” Click to Tweet: Eindhoven University of Technology Selects @ZadaraStorage to Support 300+ @VMware Servers – http://bit.ly/EindhovenSelectsZadara

About Zadara Storage

Zadara Storage offers enterprise Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) through the award-winning Zadara Storage Cloud. It can be deployed at any location (cloud, on-premise or hybrid), supporting any data type (block, file and object) and connecting to any protocol (FC, iSCSI, iSER, NFS, CIFS, S3/ Swift).

The VPSA™ service provides enterprise SAN and NAS while the ZIOS™ service delivers private object storage. Zadara provides resource isolation, exceptional data security, and management control. Zadara is available via OPaaS (On-Premise-as-a-Service) and through a variety of partners including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and others.

• Visit www.zadarastorage.com, the Zadara Blog, or on LinkedIn and Twitter. Zadara Storage Media Contacts (A3 Communications):
• US: Mary Kae Marinac Phone: 978-685-3136 Email: mkm@mkmarinac.com
• EMEA: Federica Monsone Phone: +44 (0) 1252 875 203 Email: fred.monsone@a3communications.co.uk 2