Alacritech Announces OEM Partnership With Iomega; Industry's Only Server and Storage Accelerator Enables Superior Price/Performance in Iomega NAS P850m Servers.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 2003

Alacritech(R), Inc., the innovator of network accelerator solutions that enable fast and efficient servers and storage systems, today announced an OEM partnership with Iomega Corporation (NYSE:IOM), a global leader in reliable storage. Iomega will integrate the Alacritech 1000x1 Single-Port Gigabit Ethernet Server and Storage Accelerator into its newly announced next generation network-attached storage (NAS) server, the Iomega(R) P850m to provide mid-sized enterprises with superior price/performance.

Designed for the growing storage needs of small and medium-sized businesses, Iomega's new NAS P850m server excels in adding storage capacity to existing networks and in consolidating data from across the network. In vertical markets such as education, health care, government, and professional services, customers can use the Iomega P850m to support their data-intensive applications, improve their backup and archiving practices, and lower their network support costs. For ease-of-use, the Iomega P850m is Microsoft(R) Windows(R)-based and is designed to integrate easily into Windows 2000 networks.

"Today, businesses require maximum reliability coupled with price/performance value to leverage their IT investments," said Wayne Arvidson, director of marketing, network storage solutions, Iomega Corporation. "Our new Iomega P850m provides three times faster performance than previous Iomega NAS servers with nearly 100 percent uptime. We selected Alacritech's industry-leading TCP/IP offload engine with failover capabilities to meet our goal of providing our customers with the best enterprise features, at a corporate workgroup price, for their NAS environments."

"Our OEM partnership with Iomega underscores our dedication to providing server and storage solutions that offer an exceptional return on investment for customers," said Kim Peyser, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Alacritech, Inc. "Alacritech's patented SLIC Technology enables unprecedented performance and efficiency, and the failover capability customers demand."

About Alacritech Acceleration Technology

As systems and servers move increasing amounts of network data, new solutions are needed to solve both efficiency and throughput challenges. Alacritech's SLIC Technology supplements the TCP software control plane with distributed hardware data planes to maximize data movement through Ethernet-based networks. This revolutionary data-path TCP/IP offload engine architecture is designed to maximize server and storage performance and efficiency. All Alacritech products offer industry-standard failover and link aggregation.

Availability

The Iomega NAS P850m, including the Alacritech 1000x1 Server and Storage Accelerator has a suggested retail price of $17,499.00 U.S., and will ship worldwide on April 28.

About Alacritech, Inc.

Alacritech, Inc. was founded by Larry Boucher, creator of the SCSI interface, to deliver upon his vision of eliminating the server bottleneck. Today, Alacritech is the innovator of network accelerator solutions that enable fast and efficient servers and storage systems. Alacritech's products are based on the company's patented SLIC (session-layer interface control) Technology to optimize the performance of servers, network-attached storage and iSCSI storage devices. SLIC Technology is the first fully compatible and scalable technology to offload network protocol processing, primarily TCP/IP, from software on the host system to silicon on the adapter. Based in San Jose, Calif., Alacritech is privately held. Alacritech is a member of the iSCSI Consortium and the Storage Networking Association (SNIA) as well as a founding member of the SNIA IP Storage Forum. For more information about Alacritech and its products, please visit the company's Web site at www.alacritech.com.

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