Aristos Logic Unveils the Industry's First Intelligent Storage Processor; The Technology Sets a New Bar for Storage Performance and Manageability.

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FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 2002

Aristos Logic, the industry leader in silicon solutions for the networked storage market, today unveiled its Intelligent Storage Processor technology.

Developed specifically to address storage processing bottlenecks, the Intelligent Storage Processor technology is implemented using proprietary hardware engines that automate and accelerate time critical storage commands, thereby providing unprecedented levels of performance.

Extensive real time statistics and data collection capabilities of the Intelligent Storage Processor enable OEM customers to implement advanced storage management capabilities including Quality of Service.

"Given our strong storage heritage, we realized the need for a powerful engine optimized for today's enterprise storage applications. We also foresaw additional demands on storage fueled by the advent of networked storage.

"Our Intelligent Storage Processor technology is designed to provide a powerful building block to meet the demands of these SAN/NAS connected networked storage as well as for virtualization applications," said Anil Gupta, president & CEO of Aristos Logic.

"While providing a high level of hardware automation, our Intelligent Storage Processor technology retains the flexibility our customers need on order to offer differentiating product solutions," added Gupta.

"The Aristos Logic Intelligent Storage Processor is an ideal foundation upon which OEMs can build a managed enterprise storage solution," said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst at the Enterprise Storage Group.

"It focuses on accelerating critical storage functions that can be leveraged throughout storage and virtualization applications, and provides a high performance execution engine for customer's policy automation, storage resource management and data services. This has the opportunity to alter the way things are done in storage," added Duplessie.

"Fully optimized storage management is the ultimate goal of storage networking," said Steve Denegri, managing director and system area networking analyst for RBC Capital Markets.

"As more data management intelligence migrates to the I/O fabric, Aristos is uniquely positioned to deliver maximum data availability and to facilitate distributed storage management within a new product category RBC labels Intelligent Storage Processing."

"The growth of data-intensive applications in combination with the need to reduce the costs associated with managing storage resources is forcing companies to turn to networked storage," said Eric Sheppard, a senior research analyst with IDC.

"By migrating storage functions towards purpose built processors, IT managers can optimize performance at many points across the storage network while making it easier to deploy and use these functions."

Aristos Logic's Intelligent Storage Processor technology delivers three key values -- the industry's highest performance enabled by a scalable fabric of programmable processing elements and memory data structure controllers, real time data collection capabilities that result in true closed loop policy execution, and industry leading integration that further enhances system reliability.

The Intelligent Storage Processor technology is designed to be agnostic to I/O interfaces and can thus be readily adapted to a variety of host, disk and back-plane interfaces.

Aristos Logic expects to announce FibreSlice(TM), the company's first product incorporating the Intelligent Storage Processor technology later this year. Several OEM customers have already embraced FibreSlice, the industry's most powerful storage controller device for the enterprise RAID and virtualization applications.

With headquarters in Foothill Ranch, Aristos Logic is a leading developer of innovative, paradigm changing silicon solutions for the networked storage market. Aristos Logic is the inventor of the Intelligent Storage Processor, a technology designed to bring a whole new level of performance, manageability, flexibility and scalability to networked storage.

Founded in February 2000, Aristos is staffed by industry professionals with extensive experience in System on Chip (SoC) design, hard disk drives, networked storage, RAID controllers, networking, storage management and I/O interface technologies. For further information, visit the company's Web site at www.aristoslogic.com.