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InoStor PROVIDES ADDITIONAL DATA AVAILABILITY, SECURITY

InoStor, a Tandberg Data company, announced that iRep, InoStor's integrated replication, is now featured in its line of Network Attached Storage solutions. InoStor's iRep provides efficient and reliable periodic synchronization of file data with other InoStor NAS appliances over Internet Protocol networks.

"Enabling our product with this enterprise level replication is consistent with our strategy of providing customers with higher levels of data availability and protection, with data secured by our patented RAIDn technology," said David Licosati, vice president of NAS Business Development. "iRep is the fifth level in our maximized availability hierarchy that includes RAID, RAIDn, Snapshot, tape back up and now iRep replication, all managed by our intuitive iceNAS software."

The need to move information between systems and locations frequently creates challenges and risks that IT organizations can overcome with InoStor's iRep. Traditional information movement methods typically incur high costs and include many manual and redundant processes. This can translate into poor network performance since bandwidth is monopolized by inefficient data movement; furthermore, security and reliability can be jeopardized with a lack of data integrity checks and with dependence on over-tasked IT personnel.

The recent incident of mass power failure, along with new government regulations and increased focus on homeland security, have driven businesses to take a more aggressive approach to Disaster Recovery (DR) planning. With the substantial cost of data loss and system downtime, business continuity must be given the highest priority. The SEC now recommends that critical information be secured at a remote location to protect against regional disasters.

InoStor's iRep was developed to assure 100 percent accurate data sets are automatically maintained on remote machines and can be accessed rapidly to get business operations up and running. This capability provides a practical and affordable solution to DR and the movement of information between systems and locations.

InoStor's iRep brings new levels of ease-of-use, cost-effectiveness, and upgradeability to data replication. iRep's out-of-the-box, single screen set-up combined with a seamless upgrade path to enterprise-wide heterogeneous replication means complete flexibility to address essentially any business requirement for data replication. Common applications for iRep include data consolidation for backup and reporting, data distribution of information updates to remote locations, and synchronization between dispersed development teams.

Companies with multiple locations, including disaster recovery remote storage sites, need to move data efficiently with minimal impact on performance and data accuracy. InoStor's iRep includes sophisticated features that allow businesses to significantly reduce administrative costs and increase availability of critical data.

InoStor's iRep features include:

• Incremental Transfer which transfers only data that has changed since the last synchronization enabling faster transfers while using less network bandwidth
• Bandwidth Management which limits and minimizes the impact of data transfer on other applications using network resources substantially increasing productivity during transactions
• Retry and Checkpoints that manage network and server outages gracefully so transfers automatically start up again where they left off
• Multi-streaming which can send large amounts of data simultaneously by using multiple TCP connections
• iceNAS browser-based user interface which allows easy-to-manage set-up for replication processes and allows replication scheduling to be performed on-demand or automatically.

In today's information intensive business environment, minimizing manual and redundant tasks while insuring reliable and efficient data transfer provides immediate benefits. InoStor's powerful iRep integrated replication delivers fast, easy data transfer and enhanced information reliability and security. iRep is available now on InoStor's ValuNAS and InteliNAS network attached storage appliances.

About InoStor

InoStor Corp, a Tandberg Data Company, is a network storage technologies company providing high performance storage solutions including NAS (Network Attached Storage) appliances, tape-based automation, tape drive and media solutions. InoStor's NAS solutions deliver new standards of reliability and performance at an affordable cost. The company's focus on software development has resulted in its patented RAIDn, the next evolution in RAID technology. InoStor also sells the highly reliable line of Tandberg Data automation solutions, tape drives and media including SLR, DLTtape and LTO technologies. InoStor's corporate headquarters are located at 13000 Gregg Street, Poway, Calif. 92064. Founded in 1933, Tandberg Data ASA's corporate offices are located in Oslo, Norway. More information can be found at www.inostor.com.