Crossroads Systems Announces Agreement for Sun Microsystems to Offer SurePath™ ReadVerify™ Appliance in France

Business Wire, Jan 28, 2008

Sun Chooses Crossroads ReadVerify[TM] Appliance (RVA) as its Storage Verification Solution for Defense, Finance, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Governmental and Telecommunication Customers

AUSTIN, Texas -- Crossroads Systems, Inc. (Pink Sheets: CRDS), a global leading provider of data protection solutions, today announced its partnership with global provider of network computing infrastructure solutions, Sun Microsystems. This partnership gives the opportunity for Sun to offer Crossroads ReadVerify Appliance in France as part of their data protection solutions.

Sun France Chooses to Offer Crossroads SurePath RVA to Guarantee the Recovery of Data Stored on Tapes

Corporations are obligated to meet business, regulatory and compliancy standards, which are driving ever-increasing data retention requirements in a cost-effective manner. The use of tape media is an integral part of corporate backup and archive strategies. Sun sought a powerful, flexible and reliable solution to help its customers gain visibility, understanding and pro-active alerts to ensure data recovery in a timely and cost-effective manner as well as to improve tape drive utilization and performance. Crossroads' SurePath ReadVerify Appliance (RVA) is a simple plug-and-play appliance that fully integrates with Sun's platform to ensure pro-active protection of business-critical information by monitoring, alerting and reporting on the performance, utilization, and health of tape libraries, drives and media. Already, Crossroads RVA has been successfully installed and is fully operational by Sun at various customer sites including a major airline manufacturer.

"Capitalizing on our extensive market presence and business experience globally, Sun delivers a premier portfolio of innovative and advanced storage solutions," said Olivier Tordo, head of the Storage division at Sun France. "As many of the most sensitive high-tech, financial and defense organizations in France rely on Sun's products and solutions for ensuring access to critical business information, we feel confident that by offering Crossroads ReadVerify Appliance our customers will benefit from higher levels of data protection by addressing a problem area neglected by most storage integrators. Crossroads RVA benefits all companies and governmental organizations utilizing tape media by ensuring the protection of their critical data infrastructure in a unique, innovative and revolutionary manner."

THE SOLUTION: Crossroads SurePath RVA Offers Simple, Reliable and High-Performance Data Protection

Crossroads' SurePath ReadVerify Appliance (RVA) is a simple plug-and-play appliance that monitors and reports on the performance, utilization, and health of tape libraries, drives and media. RVA proactively alerts and provides detailed information on backup failure conditions, such as tape media error rates or poorly performing tape drives. Customers gain such high return-on-investments benefits that, within days, companies can gain visibility to critical tape infrastructure and system information which they did not have previously. Storage managers and backup administrators can then take measures to improve the backup environment and reduce costs substantially.

"Gaining Sun as an official partner offering Crossroads ReadVerify Appliance is another example of our successful market penetration in Europe," said David Cerf, Executive Vice-President of Corporate and Business Development, Crossroads Systems. "As Sun is a recognized leading provider of tape libraries globally, we view this announcement, Sun France's current installations of Crossroads RVA and our lead opportunities as a great market endorsement."

Sun France Sells Three Crossroads RVA Solutions

Sun is offering three models of ReadVerify Appliance in France:

* RV50f offers alerting and reporting on tape libraries of 50 slots or less

* RV100f proactively monitors mid-sized tape libraries of 100 to 1500 slots

* RV200f verifies data readability on enterprise-class libraries of 2000 slots and more

To select the right solution that matches your current and upcoming business needs, contact your Sun representative at: sales@fr.sun.com or Crossroads specialist at sales@crossroads.com / 49 7171 187-0 or 1-512-349-0300.

For more information regarding RVA and its proven ROI, please visit:

http://www.crossroads.com/products/surepath/rva

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision - "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

About Crossroads Systems, Inc.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Crossroads Systems is a global leading provider of data security, resiliency and connectivity solutions. Crossroads (symbol: CRDS) trades over-the-counter on Pink Sheets and posts its financial disclosure reports, press releases and other related documentation on the OTCIQ web service of the Pink Sheets website.