Inventors of Zetera Network Storage Win Prestigious InfoWorld Award

Business Wire, August 2, 2005

IRVINE, Calif. -- Zetera Corp., a leading innovator in storage technology, today announced that three of its executives have been honored as recipients of InfoWorld's prestigious Innovator 2005 award and added to the publication's Innovators Hall of Fame. InfoWorld, a leading resource for comprehensive technology information, recognized the inventors of Zetera Network Storage, a breakthrough technology that enables storage systems manufacturers to deliver higher performance, reliability and scalability at significantly lower cost.

This year's InfoWorld honorees, announced earlier this week, include the following Zetera executives:

--Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering, Bill Frank, inventor of the IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics), a storage element found in every PC in the world today;

--Vice President and Chief Systems Architect, Tom Ludwig, who has been involved with PC innovation since its infancy in the early 1980s; and

--Vice President of Engineering, Bill Babbitt, who has contributed to nearly all of the primary technologies that define the computer industry today from process controls to gaming applications, storage and networking devices, and software.

The annual InfoWorld awards recognize individuals whose vision and expertise are directing the future of enterprise technology and who have had a significant impact on the evolution of the tech world. Richard Gincel, InfoWorld's associate editor, said in a statement, "By abandoning business as usual, these honorees are striking new paths to efficiency and reliability across the board."

Commenting on InfoWorld's announcement of its award winners, Chuck Cortright, Zetera's president and CEO said, "InfoWorld's award confirms what all of us at Zetera already knew - that Bill, Tom and Bill have created a stunning new architecture that is well on its way to transforming the storage industry."

Zetera's network storage technology virtualizes storage at the IP layer, and in doing so, eliminates the physical transport gateways and disk controllers that have made storage area networks so cumbersome and costly. Zetera-based solutions scale smoothly from consumer applications to massive data center arrays. By using IP as the storage fabric, Zetera delivers improved performance, scalability, reliability and cost - all at the same time.

"The InfoWorld award also validates both our team and our mission," added Cortright. Zetera's goal is to partner with the best companies in the storage industry and help them deliver better products. Zetera technology has already been adopted by leading manufacturers of storage systems and network devices. NETGEAR(R) Inc., StorCase(R), and Bell Microproducts all have announced Zetera-based network storage products, slated to ship in the third quarter of 2005.

In addition to the InfoWorld accolade, Zetera's inventors were recently recognized by the Orange County Council of AeA, winning the 2005 Innovative Technology Award for Storage & Data Management at its annual High-Tech Awards in April 2005.

Results of InfoWorld's Innovator 2005 awards appear in the Aug. 1, 2005, edition. The article is also available online at http://www.infoworld.com/reports/31SRinnovators2005.html.> About InfoWorld

InfoWorld Media Group is a division of IDG, the world's leading technology media, research, and event company. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers and offers online users the largest network of technology-specific sites around the world through IDG.net (www.idg.net), which comprises more than 300 targeted Web sites in 70 countries. IDG is also a leading producer of 168 computer-related expositions worldwide and provides IT market analysis through 51 offices in 43 countries worldwide. Company information is available at www.idg.com.

About Zetera Corp.

Founded in 2002, Zetera Corp. is a developer of a patent-pending technology that enables networked storage to be delivered at unprecedented price-performance levels. The technology was invented by the creators of the IDE and ATAPI disk drive standards, which have shipped in billions of disk drives. Leveraging the latest IP advances, Zetera has created a new class of network storage technology that is superior in performance, cost, scalability and compatibility to all other types of network storage. Based in Irvine, Zetera licenses its technology to leading storage, computer, peripheral and device manufacturers worldwide, including NETGEAR and StorCase. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.zetera.com.