MINNEAPOLIS--Ciprico Inc. announced today the first NETarray RAID systems began shipping to visual computing customers worldwide. NETarray 1000 is the newest member of Ciprico's Fibre Channel Family of Digital Storage Systems. It represents a leap forward in the development of high-performance RAID storage combining the best technologies of storage solutions for visual computing environments with those normally found in the enterprise computing world.

"All of our markets will benefit from NETarray because in a single scaleable platform, we provide our customers both high-bandwidth and transactional storage," said Ciprico President and CEO Robert H. Kill. "NETarray solidly brings Ciprico's service and performance into applications and markets other than our traditional high bandwidth environments. It builds on our base of products and services, squarely meeting the needs of today's environments requiring high I/O applications such as internet streaming and video editing."

Storage capacity and application needs keep growing, but Information Technology management is expensive and scarce. NETarray recognizes the need for storage to be managed like other IT resources. The NETarray is the first storage solution to provide the option of seamless out of band management, freeing up processing and increasing I/O performance. Storage can be easily managed by linking to the Ethernet through any web browser to tools already used for other IT resources. Whether used for broadcasting, streaming video over the internet or running an application within government, NETarray's out of band management revolutionizes storage management by keeping it simple.

NETarray is designed with high storage density. Each NETarray enclosure supports one or two high-performance hardware RAID controllers and can be configured with any combination of half-height Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) disk drives, from a minimum of four, to a maximum of ten. A single rack scales to holding up to 100 drives in less than a 30U rack space, totaling 7.3 TB per rack, using 73 GB drives. In a small footprint, NETarray delivers screaming I/O performance, and provides open scaleable storage for growing video streaming, Internet and other I/O intensive environments.

The NETarray is equipped with performance, reliability, availability and servicing features demanded in today's sophisticated, high I/O computing environments. All active components are duplicated and hot-swappable, including power supplies, fans, loop by-pass cards and RAID controllers.

"Ciprico's NETarray is an excellent base to meet current storage requirements and prepare for the future," summarized Bill Bartholow, Ciprico Sr. Product Manager. "Ciprico protects a customers investments by providing a scaleable, highly flexible product designed for growing businesses."

About Ciprico

Ciprico designs, manufactures and markets high-performance, direct-attached and networked storage solutions, including intelligent hardware, software and professional services. Ciprico storage solutions are designed for visual computing applications ranging from high-speed data capture, through processing and analysis, to real-time playback at sustained performance levels. Ciprico is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. More information about Ciprico is available on the World Wide Web at www.ciprico.com.

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