Quantum Corporation Launches Rushmore eSystem Accelerator; Rushmore eSystem Accelerator Yields Dramatic Improvements in e-Commerce Throughput and Response Time

Business Wire, May 22, 2000

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2000

Quantum Corporation's DLT & Storage Systems Group (NYSE:DSS), the leader in high-performance solid state storage solutions for the NT and UNIX server marketplace, today announced the launch of their next generation solid state storage product, the Rushmore(TM) eSystem Accelerator (eSA).

The Rushmore eSA technology dramatically expedites Web page access and e-Commerce transactions, allowing e-Commerce providers the ability to meet and exceed increasing expectations for high-speed transactions and rapid response times demanded by online users today.

The Rushmore eSA is a comprehensive set of hardware, tools, services, and consulting bundled into one inclusive package. With breakthrough semiconductor and controller technology, the Rushmore eSA significantly increases system performance in e-Commerce infrastructures while ensuring higher throughput with less hardware. In a benchmarking test, five servers and one Rushmore eSA did the work of twenty-five Web server machines, lowering acquisition, support, and space costs while improving reliability.

The Rushmore eSA can be used at three different levels of an e-Commerce system configuration: Web caching devices and Internet firewalls at the front end, hot data, logging and indexing in the middle, and Web page serving at the back end. The Rushmore eSA delivers data access times of less than 25 microseconds (us) for most time-critical applications. In a financial trading application, the Rushmore eSA has demonstrated significant application results: it increased processed order volumes from 1-2 per second to 20-30 per second.

iPrint.com, the leading online print shop and business print portal, increased throughput by 400 percent while reducing queue response times on their Web site by 95 percent. Dave Hodson, vice president of technology for iPrint.com said, "We needed performance...plugging in the Rushmore eSA made an immediate order of magnitude difference. In fact, we just put the Rushmore eSA in the server, put the server back online and queue times immediately fell by 95 percent. That enables us to handle an additional 10,000 visitors a day with the same hardware."

According to Charlie Cassidy, vice president and manager of Quantum's Solid State Business Unit, "The Rushmore eSystem Accelerator is a comprehensive package of proven technology and services that will immediately distinguish one e-Commerce provider from another. An e-Commerce provider will only survive this exploding industry if they can deliver the rapid response time and system reliability demanded by today's marketplace."

The Rushmore eSA is a plug-and-play solution that has been tested on all major platforms and is compatible with NT, UNIX, and LINUX. The Rushmore eSA can be added without system interruption resulting in maximum system access.

The official launch and demonstration of the Rushmore eSystem Accelerator will take place at the Application Service Provider Convention (ASPCON), Booth 1226, in Orlando, Florida, May 23-25.

About Quantum

Founded in 1980, Quantum Corporation (www.quantum.com) is the world's leading storage supplier in six of the seven markets it serves: desktop hard disk drives, tape drives, network attached storage (NAS) appliances, solid state systems and hard disk drives for the emerging personal video recorder (PVR) market, and DLTtape(TM) automation systems. Quantum is also a leading supplier of high-end hard disk drives. In 1999 Quantum became the first Silicon Valley company to issue tracking stock, replacing its existing common stock with the ticker symbols DSS and HDD, which track the separate performance of the company's DLT and Storage Systems and Hard Disk Drive businesses. Both stocks are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Selling its products through OEM and distribution channels worldwide, sales for the fiscal year ending March 2000 were $1.4 billion for Quantum's DLT and Storage Systems Group and $3.3 billion for Quantum's Hard Disk Drive Group.

Quantum Corp., 500 McCarthy Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035, (408) 894-4000, www.quantum.com.

Note to Editors: Quantum and the Quantum logo are trademarks of Quantum Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. DLTtape is a trademark of Quantum Corporation.