SEPATON Data De-Duplication Software Wins 'Best of Show' at Data Protection Summit

Business Wire, March 15, 2007

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. -- SEPATON, Inc., the leader in high-performance data protection solutions, today announced that its ContentAware[TM] DeltaStor[TM] software for data de-duplication has been honored with a 'Best of Show Award' in the Most Innovative Data Protection Technology category at the first annual Data Protection Summit.

The Best of Show Awards contest was judged by a panel of experts and granted for distinctiveness of the solution, central use of data protection, and technical and business significance.

"The Data Protection Summit Innovation Award for Technology recognizes a premiere company whose products and services have raised the bar for data protection," said Jay Kramer, chairperson of the DPS Awards Committee. "The DP Summit is proud to recognize DeltaStor software from SEPATON in the category of Data Protection for making a real difference in the marketplace."

"SEPATON's ContentAware data de-duplication approach is entirely different from competitive de-duplication approaches," explained Linda Mentzer, vice president of marketing, SEPATON, Inc. "This award recognizes and honors our approach of focusing on out-of-band data de-duplication, which allows for unimpeded backup performance since de-duplication is not being performed inline on incoming data. Additionally, DeltaStor uses a higher level of abstraction when analyzing backup data, delivering better performance and de-duplication ratios. We are honored to receive this award for our innovation."

About Data Protection Summit

The 1st annual Data Protection Summit is designed to provide attendees with practical information on the current state of data protection. The Summit will include half-day tutorials on data security, compliance, mobile security, and legal issues and privacy; presentations on security, privacy, and data protection; and keynotes and panel discussions by industry luminaries. The Summit is open to everyone involved in the design, development, integration, marketing, use, or support of products, hardware, or software related to data protection. For more information, visit www.dataprotectionsummit.com.

About SEPATON, Inc.

SEPATON is enabling companies of any size to comply with demanding data storage and retrieval requirements by changing the rules of data protection. We provide innovative, disk-based solutions that are intelligent, reliable and reduce storage, management and recovery costs. Because the proven SEPATON ContentAware[TM] architecture keeps track of all files and content, it enables faster and more efficient performance of a range of advanced data protection, data retention and data recovery functions. SEPATON's virtual tape library systems dramatically out-perform tape and other disk-based solutions. For additional information call 508-490-7900 or visit www.sepaton.com.

SEPATON, SRE and S2100 are registered trademarks of SEPATON Corporation. ContentAware, Site2 and DeltaStor are trademarks of SEPATON Corporation. All other brand and product names are or may be trademarks of their respective owners.