ATL Products Appoints Neal Waddington As Chief Operating Officer; New COO Responsible for ATL's Day-to-Day Operation.

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1999--ATL Products, a leading supplier of intelligent DLTtape(TM) libraries for networked computers, Tuesday announced the appointment of Neal Waddington as chief operating officer.

Waddington will assume responsibility for ATL's day-to-day operation and the execution of the company's business plan effective immediately. He will also be responsible for the continued development of ATL's organizational structure and business processes. Waddington will report to Dr. Kevin Daly who will continue to serve as ATL's chief executive officer.

Waddington joins ATL from Quantum Corp. where he was vice president and general manager of the Storage Systems Division. His affiliation with ATL began in May of 1998 when Quantum announced its intention to acquire ATL Products. Waddington was responsible for the smooth transition of Quantum's storage automation products and associated business activities into ATL Products.

The integration of Quantum's autoloaders and low-end tape libraries into ATL was completed successfully after the merger became effective in September of 1998, positioning the company to offer intelligent DLTtape libraries from the desktop to the datacenter.

"With the integration behind us and with the challenges in front of us, it is the appropriate time for Neal to shift his role," said Daly, chief executive officer for ATL Products. "His experience and commitment to staff development, organizational development and the distribution of responsibility are essential for ATL to anticipate the changes needed to meet our new business activities."

Waddington assumes the daily COO responsibility for one of Orange County's most successful companies and leading provider of automated DLTtape library solutions. In May of 1998, the Los Angeles Times selected ATL Products as one of California's Top 100 fastest-growing companies. In July of 1998, the Orange County Register identified ATL Products as having one of the largest quarterly stock gains of any Orange County company.

Before joining Quantum in 1997, Waddington served as CEO for Expersoft, senior vice president and general manager for EMC's Open Storage Division and vice president and general manager for Tandem's Integrity System Division.

Waddington also spent close to 20 years at Sperry and Unisys serving 10 years in product development and 10 years in marketing and general management. Waddington earned a bachelor of science degree in math and a master of science degree in computer science from Iowa State University.

Desktop to Datacenter Solutions

ATL Products features the most comprehensive DLTtape library family available to the industry with desktop to datacenter library solutions that include:

-- PowerStor L200: targeted toward small workgroups featuring

one DLTtape drive, 8 cartridges, 18 GB/hour performance and

280 GB capacity;

-- PowerStor L500: targeted toward workgroups and departments

featuring up to 3 DLTtape drives, 14 cartridges, 54 GB/hour

performance and 490 GB capacity;

-- P1000 Series: the industry's first library to utilize PCI 

expansion featuring up to 4 DLTtape drives, 30 cartridges, 72

GB/hour performance and 1.05 TB capacity;

-- 520 Series: targeted toward midrange requirements featuring

up to 4 DLTtape drives, 52 cartridges, 72 GB/hour performance

and 1.8 TB capacity;

-- 7100 Series: targeted at storage intensive applications

featuring up to 7 DLTtape drives, 100 cartridges, 126 GB/hour

performance and 3.5 TB capacity;

-- 2640 Series: the world's first automated DLT library

featuring up to 9 DLTtape drives, 264 cartridges, 162 GB/hour

performance and 9.24 TB capacity; and

-- P3000 Series: the industry's first High Availability (HA)

designed library featuring up to 16 DLTtape drives, 326

cartridges, 288 GB/hour performance and 11.4 TB capacity.

About ATL Products

ATL Products, a Quantum Company, is recognized worldwide as a market innovator in the design, manufacture and service of automated DLTtape library systems having earned a reputation for superb quality and reliability.

Delivering library systems through OEMs and a worldwide network of authorized resellers and distributors, ATL ships a large percentage of the world's DLTtape libraries. The DLTtape market is growing rapidly and ATL is at the forefront with thousands of library systems currently installed worldwide.

Serving the world market for storage automation, corporate headquarters for ATL Products is in Irvine. An additional site in Irvine serves as one of the world's largest manufacturing facilities dedicated to DLTtape automation technology. Sales and service are provided throughout major cities in North America, Europe and Asia. For additional information, call ATL Products at 949/856-7800, or browse the company Web site at www.atlp.com.

Note to Editors: All performance and capacity specifications are native and can be doubled with 2-to-1 compression.

DLTtape and DLT are trademarks of Quantum Corp. in the United States and other countries.

The foregoing statements regarding performance and future products are forward-looking statements and actual results could vary. Factors which could affect actual results include unexpected shortages of critical components, short product lives, the timing of new product introductions, competition (including new and directly competitive products from others) and the significant uncertainty of market acceptance of new products by both distribution channels and end-user customers.