SEPATON and ONStor Partner to Provide Superior Data Protection for Enterprise NAS Environments

Business Wire, Feb 7, 2006

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. & SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Joint Solution Deployed by University of California, Merced Achieving Non-Disruptive Backup and Restore on Storage Infrastructure of its Choice

SEPATON, Inc. and ONStor Inc. today announced a joint partnership to enable rapid NAS backup and restore using virtual tape technology. Together the companies will deliver data protection solutions comprised of ONStor's enterprise-class NAS Gateway and SEPATON's award-winning S2100(R)-ES2 Virtual Tape Library (VTL) appliance. The University of California, Merced has deployed the combined offering, resulting in a highly scalable, cost-effective solution for protecting and managing its diverse storage infrastructure.

Enrique Flores, UC Merced's lead UNIX systems administrator, said, "Our university comprises many different user groups, each with its own hardware requirements, so the products we deploy must work in heterogeneous environments. ONStor provides high performance and the ability to work with the disk arrays of our choice and is complemented by the SEPATON solution which provides broad tape library emulations and the fastest performance in the industry. Together, the products worked seamlessly out-of-the-box with no disruption to our existing systems. The result has been a significantly improved backup window and excess capacity with the physical tape libraries, which have been redeployed for long-term archive."

"SEPATON's S2100-ES2 is the most advanced high-performance, RAID-based enterprise data protection appliance delivering backup/restore speeds up to 10 times faster than tape systems," said Miki Sandorfi, chief technology officer, SEPATON, Inc. "Combining the industry leaders' in performance and scalability, the partnership between SEPATON and ONStor creates a solution that helps customers store and protect their data as environments grow and become more complex."

Cost-Effective Data Protection

Businesses need instantaneous, worldwide access to data generated by a wide variety of computer systems. As a result, there is no end in sight for the exponential growth of data that IT managers have to manage, store and protect. This problem is compounded by corporate business continuity programs and increasingly stringent government regulations that both require companies to have policies and procedures in place for long-term data retention and advanced disaster protection. The SEPATON/ONStor joint solution enables data in a distributed NAS environment to be backed up and recovered rapidly using SEPATON's industry leading VTL solutions while leveraging existing investments in backup hardware and software.

"Data protection across the network represents a significant storage challenge, in terms of the volume of information, the frequency of required backups, and the necessity to quickly retrieve it when needed," said Jon Toor, vice president of marketing, ONStor. "SEPATON and ONStor together offer an affordable, non-disruptive approach that ensures data backup and restore while fully leveraging storage resources that are already in place."

Upcoming Webcast

SEPATON and ONStor will host a live Webcast entitled "Weighing the Benefits of Consolidating Storage and Backup: Keys to reducing complexity, increasing productivity" on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 1:00 pm EST. The one-hour Webcast will feature Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Analysts' Tony Asaro and Heidi Biggar who will share ESG's insights and advice on this topic. To register, visit: http://www.sepaton.com/onstor2.> About ONStor

ONStor is the leader in enterprise-class NAS Gateways that consolidate file services on multi-vendor storage. ONStor storage solutions dramatically reduce management costs by providing customers with the most easily scaled storage environment, and reduce capital costs by delivering the freedom and flexibility of the industry's most interoperable platform. ONStor products and technology are offered by leading system integrators and resellers worldwide. All products are backed by a host of support offerings and by ONStor's uncompromising commitment to customer service. More information about ONStor can be found at www.onstor.com or by calling toll-free 877-2ON-STOR (877-266-7867).

About SEPATON, Inc.

Based in Marlborough, MA, SEPATON, Inc. develops and markets a family of award-winning data protection solutions to medium and large data centers that must manage multiple terabytes of data daily. SEPATON's data protection solutions integrate seamlessly into existing customer environments. The SEPATON S2100-ES was named 2004 backup hardware product of the year by Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com. The company is privately held with investments from Jerusalem Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, and Valhalla Partners. For more information, visit www.sepaton.com.

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