Troika Networks Announces Troika SAN Volume Suite -SVS- for Simple, Scalable Storage Management and Data Protection; Solution Allows Enterprise Customers to Deploy and Expand Intelligent Applications Independent of Storage and Servers

Business Wire, April 7, 2005

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. -- Troika Networks Inc., the leading provider of network-based storage services solutions and enabling technologies, announced today the availability of Troika SAN Volume Suite (SVS), a fabric-based storage management and data protection solution with hardware-accelerated services that allow enterprise customers to substantially lower the cost of deploying vital capabilities such as disaster recovery, zero-window back-up, data migration and heterogeneous storage management.

Troika SVS, a StoreAge Enabled solution, provides enterprise customers with the unique ability to add new storage management and data protection capabilities while leveraging existing storage infrastructure regardless of storage, server, or SAN switch vendor. Unlike alternative solutions, which are proprietary and expensive or low-performance and non-scalable, Troika SAN Volume Suite offers a completely heterogeneous solution using a purpose-built, fabric-based platform approach to maximize application scalability and performance.

"Enterprise customers are looking to solve specific storage management and data protection issues not re-architect their whole environment," said Steve O'Brian, vice president of marketing, Troika Networks. "As a result, customers seek solutions that allow them to leave their existing infrastructure intact and non-disruptively add incremental capabilities that are affordable to deploy and affordable to grow. Troika SAN Volume Suite allows customers to deploy a wide-spectrum of capabilities to any storage network in an extremely cost-effective manner, seamlessly scaling such capabilities independent of storage and server resources."

Troika SVS is the industry's first split path architecture (SPAID) storage area network solution. The SPAID architecture optimizes data-intensive operations through accelerating storage services directly in hardware and separating the control path from the data path. This approach enables high-performance, highly scalable SAN implementations. (See "STOREAGE AND TROIKA SHIP INDUSTRY'S FIRST SPLIT PATH ACHITECTURE SAN MANAGEMENT SOLUTION," press release, dated April 5, 2005).

"With their SPAID architecture and unique SAN independent approach, Troika is on the leading-edge of high-performance network-based storage solutions," said Marc Staimer, president of Dragon Slayer Consulting. "Troika SAN Volume Suite is a great match for customers seeking a network-based, vendor agnostic platform that accommodates nearly any SAN server, switch or storage device and can easily scale as needs dictate."

Troika SAN Volume Suite combines StoreAge Network Technologies' SVM(TM) software and Troika's Accelera(TM) Network Storage Services Platform, purpose-built for accelerating and optimizing applications, into a highly integrated, simple-to-deploy fabric based solution giving customers unprecedented flexibility in deploying and expanding storage services, while leveraging their existing infrastructure investment. The integrated solution comprised of multiView(TM), multiCopy(TM), multiMirror(TM), and the Accelera(TM) Network Storage Services Platform, provides a wide range of storage services including: snapshot, replication, mirroring, and virtualization.

As a result of a newly-formed Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) relationship with StoreAge, Troika Networks will sell and distribute StoreAge software within Troika SAN Volume Suite via its worldwide

network of resellers and integrators. Troika recently announced several new European resellers to its Troika Achieve Channel Partner Program, broadening its reach in this growing market.

Troika will be showing a demonstration of the Troika SVS at Storage Network World, Spring 2005, April 12-15th, at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort in Phoenix, Ariz.

About Troika Networks

Troika Networks provides integrated solutions, application hosting platforms and embedded technologies purpose-built to enable enterprise customers to dramatically improve data protection and management capabilities. Troika solutions provide a cost-effective approach for implementing SAN independent disaster recovery, backup and volume management functionality and are based upon Troika's exclusive Accelera(TM) Network Storage Services Platforms and ReadyPath(TM) Technology. Troika's solutions are available through leading OEMs and value-added resellers worldwide. For more information on Troika, Troika-based solutions and its enabling technologies, please visit http://www.troikanetworks.com or contact the company at info@troikanetworks.com.