BiTMICRO Introduces Low Cost Enterprise SAN Solid State Flash Disk Storage Solutions at SunNetwork Conference

Business Wire, Sept 16, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SunNetwork Conference

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 2003

Starting Price at under $3K, Entry Level Fibre-to-Fibre E-Disk(R)SAN

Non-Volatile SSD Delivers up to 40,000 IOPS and up to 280 MB/sec

Sustained Transfer Rate

BiTMICRO Networks, a pioneer in intelligent flash disk ATA / IDE, SCSI, USB, VME, Compact PCI, Firewire, Fibre Channel and Ethernet solid state disk (SSD) storage solutions, announced today at the SunNetwork Conference being held in San Francisco, California, the release and immediate availability of its E-Disk(R)SAN SAF Fibre-to-Fibre low cost series of pure solid state Storage Area Network (SAN) product line.

This latest version of low cost non-volatile E-DiskSAN of pure solid state disk storage is rich in performance and reliability. It is designed to meet the ever growing demand for speed and low latency performance required by commercial database and other transaction intensive applications.

The dual ported active-active E-Disk(R)SAN SAF flash disk SSD offers up to 40,000 sustained sequential input/output per second (IOPS), up to 30,000 sustained random IOPS, up to 280 megabytes per second (MB/s) sustained sequential read transfer rate, and up to 180 MB/s sustained random read transfer rate. The SAF 4-bay non-volatile flash disk series scales in capacity to 426 gigabytes (GB) per enclosure.

BiTMICRO customers can now avail of low cost non-volatile solid state flash disk technology in their data center, SAN and network attached storage (NAS) environments by deploying the E-Disk(R)SAN SAF. The E-Disk(R)SAN SAF flash disk appliance can be deployed in a variety of storage architectures for most types of technical and business applications and does not require a Fibre Channel SAN. The SAF can be configured as a desktop or stand-alone device, in a server, tower or rackmount enclosure directly attached to a host with a Fibre Channel interface.

For enterprise customers who have deployed Fibre Channel SANs, the addition of the E-Disk(R)SAN SAF provides a performance boost to a broad range of servers and applications when they need it, while sharing this valuable resource across the corporate network.

``With our affordable and new solid state flash disk storage technology, our clients can now easily implement new degree of system performance and cost effectiveness," said Rudy Bruce, President of BiTMICRO Networks.

"Competing products of the same class, capacity and performance in the volatile DRAM market do not even come close to the E-Disk(R)SAN SAF in terms of smaller footprint, reliability, security and power consumption. Their investment goes to the advanced features provided by our patented DataSentinel(TM), securErase(R) and PowerGuard(R) technologies instead of complementary batteries, hard disks and tape backup solutions required by DRAM SSD products," added Bruce.

E-Disk(R)SAN SAF OEM pricing starts at under $3K for 1000 units quantity. For E-Disk(R)SAN technology information, pricing and availability, call 510-74E-DISK / 510-743-3475, e-mail info@bitmicro.com or visit http://www.bitmicro.com.

BiTMICRO E-Disk(R) solid state storage solutions integrates seamlessly in environments running Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), EMC (NYSE: EMC), Veritas (NASDAQ: VRTS), HP (NYSE: HPQ), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW), LSI Logic (NYSE: LSI), Unisys (NYSE: UIS), and Sybase (NYSE: SY).

About BiTMICRO Networks

BiTMICRO Networks (http://www.bitmicro.com) is the world's premier supplier of rugged and high performance non-volatile solid-state disk, flash disk drive, and network storage and management solutions. E-Disks(R) storage solutions are offered with SCSI, IDE/ATA, Fibre Channel, USB, Firewire, cPCI, VME, PMC and Ethernet interfaces in 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch hard disk drive footprints, single-wide PMC, 3U and 6U board, and 19-inch rackmount configurations scalable up to several terabytes of pure solid state storage. E-Disk(R)SAN StorView* software is a web based storage management software for E-Disk(R)SAN. E-Disk(R) SafeCapacity-Hotfile software complements E-Disk storage solutions by effectively managing different types of disk subsystems and increasing complex data sets such that a constant high-level of file system I/O performance is maintained.

E-Disk(R), BiTMICRO Networks(R) and BiTMICRO(R) are registered trademarks of BiTMICRO Networks, Inc. Others are trademarks of their respective companies or other countries.