Zetta IR Server Earns High Marks in Independent Review

Business Wire, June 30, 2005

SEATTLE -- Zetta Systems, the leading developer of Instant Recovery (IR) network storage solutions for email and database applications, received "Good" ratings across the board in key performance indicators from an eWEEK Labs review of its Zetta IR Server that appeared in the publication's June 6 edition (available at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1822465,00.asp).

Entitled "Zetta Protects and Serves SMBs," the review called the Zetta IR Server "an interesting and cost-efficient storage management and protection solution for small and midsize businesses." Zetta was awarded "Good" ratings in the categories of Backup Performance, Storage Efficiency, Manageability and Interoperability.

Senior Analyst Henry Baltazar praised the solution for being easy to manage and scalable and further noted that with the Zetta IR Server's advanced features, the system's pricing is "a bargain for SMBs, even with the cost of hardware figured in." Baltazar also highlighted Zetta's fast restore and thin-provisioning capabilities.

"We are pleased to have received this positive review from a leading IT publication such as eWEEK," said Ganapathy "Krish" Krishnan, president and chief executive officer of Zetta Systems. "Data protection and instant recovery are features that businesses of all sizes should implement in order to secure key enterprise applications. We feel that this review is further validation of our innovative approach to storage management."

Zetta Systems provides scalable solutions that deliver instant recovery of email, database and file servers -- allowing companies to recover terabytes of information in seconds following data corruption or server hardware failure. Zetta IR Server software for real-time Data Protection and Instant Recovery can be installed on a wide range of Intel hardware and storage subsystems. Zetta Server IR presents both Fibre Channel and iSCSI targets for Windows and UNIX, and delivers unmatched Continuous Data Protection, Instant Recovery and the ability to scale storage without downtime.

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About Zetta Systems

Zetta Systems develops smart storage solutions for storage consolidation and Continuous Data Protection with Instant Recovery. Zetta Systems supports industry-standard hardware such as Nexsan, IBM, HP, Dell and Sun to ensure that customers are not locked into purchasing storage from a proprietary hardware vendor. Zetta Systems, based in the Seattle, Wash. area, markets its products through a worldwide channel of reseller and OEM partners. For more information, visit http://www.zettasystems.com or call 425-485-5548.