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KANO BUNDLES StorFirst WITH X-FINITI 200-DISC DVD+RW LIBRARY

Kano Technologies is now bundling StorFirst Enterprise Archival Storage (EAS) with Kano X-Finiti 200-disc, rack-mountable DVD+RW/R libraries. From Seven Ten Storage Software, StorFirst EAS allows users to write and rewrite to DVD+RW just like they would to a hard drive. More importantly, it is the only software that allows IT administrators to proactively and automatically manage data's total life cycle -- from its point of origin to deletion.

"StorFirst EAS changes the way data is placed into storage," said Richard Young, president of Kano Technologies. "From the moment data is created and saved, the IT manager has complete control over how it is stored."

StorFirst EAS allows an IT administrator to set up "policies" that completely automate storage. When a user hits the save key, the policies determine whether the data will be saved on highly available hard disk or archived securely on the X-Finiti library. Users make no decisions -- and transactions are completely transparent to them. Clients simply see an infinite expansion of disk space available to them.

"IT administrators will find that our system will really reduce their workload," continued Young. "By automating storage at the place it originates, enterprises can save time and resources that would otherwise be required for back up, disk allocation and other tasks."

The Kano X-Finiti brings the DVD+ format to the network storage environment. Model RW200 features two-to-four Kano DVD+RW/R drives mounted in the exclusive Kano BA-200 library system manufactured by Kubota Comps Corporation of Japan, a leading manufacturer of optical-storage libraries. Although StorFirst EAS is available for bundling into other systems, Kano has exclusive rights to bundle it with Kubota DVD library systems.

With single-sided DVD+RW media, the X-Finiti's 200-disc configuration provides 940GB of data storage. With Kano's exclusive double-sided DVD+R media, however, it offers a capacity of 2TB. X-Finiti 200-disc libraries are scalable and, with a rack-mountable 7U chassis and SCSI-2 interface, up to three libraries can be daisy-chained together.