SGI Professional Services to Resell Full Line of SANRAD IP SAN Products; Joint Solutions to Help Customers Extend the Reach of Managed Storage Throughout the Enterprise

Business Wire, Dec 13, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO -- SANRAD Incorporated, a leader in developing and delivering intelligent iSCSI SAN solutions, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Silicon Graphics Inc. (OTC:SGID) that enables SGI Professional Services to resell the full line of SANRAD IP SAN solutions, giving SGI the most comprehensive and flexible SAN solution portfolio of any major storage supplier. SANRAD is SGI's only partner to offer an iSCSI SAN switch.

SGI Professional Services will use SANRAD products to develop solutions designed to help enterprise customers leverage SGI(R) InfiniteStorage Solutions into integrated Fibre Channel/iSCSI SAN storage networks, extending the reach of managed storage throughout the enterprise. This blended approach gives SGI the ability to improve backup, data replication, security, disaster recovery, storage allocation and provisioning by attaching large numbers of IP connected servers to new or existing FC SANs.

"The challenges that we are able to overcome in designing solutions for customers are lessened when we are able to incorporate leading technologies from a multitude of vendors that believe as we do in true interoperability," said Rich McKay of SGI Professional Services. "We pride ourselves in SGI's ability to manage, store and deliver data over a variety of networks and we are better positioned to meet these challenges with the addition of SANRAD's line of iSCSI SAN solutions available for resell to our enterprise customers.

"The integration of interoperable network technologies with our high-performance server, visualization solutions and storage product lines allows us to offer maximum value while minimizing management hassles to companies who are looking for a single solution to manage their data protection needs," added McKay. "SANRAD's V-Switch enables us to provide highly scalable and accessible storage solutions without the limitations of traditional Fibre Channel devices."

"We are pleased to reach an agreement with SGI where they will be able to offer our full line of iSCSI SAN solutions to their customers," said Uli Gal-oz, SANRAD CEO. "By offering a joint solution of their InfiniteStorage products with our V-Switch, our companies are better positioned to provide customers with a simplified and cost-effective way to protect the growing amounts of data produced by enterprises each year."

SGI InfiniteStorage is a complete line of scalable, high-performance storage solutions built specifically for data intensive environments. Available with 64-bit Linux(R) OS-based SGI Altix(R) family of servers and Silicon Graphics Prism(TM) visualization systems and SGI(R) IRIX(R) OS-based SGI(R) Origin(R) SGI InfiniteStorage solutions for Intelligent Consolidation, Data Lifecycle Management and Data Protection also supports Solaris(TM), AIX(R), Windows(R), 64- and 32-bit Linux, and Mac OS(R) X systems and other UNIX(R) platforms. High-performance storage arrays, including the SGI(R) TP9000 series available with Fibre Channel drives or Serial ATA, tape libraries and network storage devices are also available from SGI.

About SANRAD

SANRAD is the leading iSCSI SAN provider, delivering intelligence at the network layer, empowering hundreds of organizations worldwide to effectively access, share and manage storage across standard Ethernet environments. SANRAD delivers a new dimension in the continuity and simple management of vital business information by coupling standard IP connectivity with critical network-based storage services. SANRAD is the only iSCSI SAN company to create open IP-based SANs that enable continuous data protection, virtualization, local and long distance replication and effective resource provisioning with unbeatable price/performance. SANRAD's U.S. sales, marketing and support offices are located in Silicon Valley/Bay Area, Calif., with research and development and international sales offices in Tel Aviv, Israel. SANRAD is backed by leading venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and is a member of the RAD Group, a family of more than 20 independent companies that together make up one of the largest multi-national revenue producers in networking.

Silicon Graphics, SGI, Altix, the SGI cube and the SGI logo are registered trademarks, and InfiniteStorage, Silicon Graphics Prism, and The Source of Innovation and Discovery are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries worldwide. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.