BiTMICRO Delivers World's First All-Electronic Solid State Flash Disk Enterprise SAN Solutions.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2003

Non-Volatile E-Disk(R)SAN S2F Fibre-to-Fibre RAID and JBOD Offer

Greater Than 100,000 IOPS, Greater Than 500 MB/s Sustained Rates and

up to 688 GB Solid State Storage Capacity in 2U Rackmount

BiTMICRO Networks, a pioneer in intelligent flash disk ATA / IDE, SCSI, USB, VME, Compact PCI and Fibre Channel solid state disk (SSD) storage solutions, announced today the release and immediate availability of its E-Disk(R)SAN S2F Fibre-to-Fibre 2U rackmount series of solid state Storage Area Network (SAN) product line.

Designed to meet the ever growing demand for speed and low latency performance required by commercial database and other transaction intensive applications, the E-Disk(R)SAN S2F flash disk SSD offers greater than 100,000 sustained random input/output per second (IOPS), sustained random read rates greater than 500 megabytes per second (MB/s) and sustained random write rates greater than 300 MB/s. The S2F non-volatile flash disk series scale in capacity to 688 gigabytes (GB) per enclosure.

"BiTMICRO's solutions answer our real application requirements for high IOPS," commented Timothy Barhorst, a consultant working with a major nationwide grocery distributor, on their implementation of the E-Disk(R)SAN. "Outstanding technical support and E-DiskSAN's features, performance and reliability are what customers can expect from this highly professional outfit."

BiTMICRO customers can now reap the benefits of non-volatile solid state flash disk technology in their data center, SAN and network attached storage (NAS) environments when using the E-Disk(R)SAN S2F. The S2F flash disk appliance can be deployed in a variety of storage architectures for most types of technical and business applications, either as a direct attachment to a host running input/output (I/O) intensive applications or in a networked environment where access to very fast storage can be shared among a number of hosts.

"Discontinuous changes in the consumer, data processing and communications markets drive the need, not only for increased storage capacity, but also for significant higher access performance. BiTMICRO's SAN storage solutions successfully meet the industry's requirements," said Radu Andrei, President of Web-Feet Research (www.web-feetresearch.com), a consultancy and market research company. "The market for Flash solid state drives is forecast to grow to $2.67 billion in 2006, a compound annual growth rate of 112%," Andrei added.

For enterprise customers who have deployed Fibre Channel SANs, the addition of the E-Disk(R)SAN provides a performance boost to a broad range of servers and applications when they need it, while sharing this valuable resource across the corporate network.

"Customers need solutions that inject speed into their storage area networks on demand without necessarily incurring costs associated with traditional storage management practices," said Rudy Bruce, President of BiTMICRO Networks. "We are heeding the call of our customers in a very unique and distinctive way by offering storage solutions that represent a revolutionary leap in flash disk technology," added Bruce.

In taking storage and performance management to higher levels, the benefit obtained in utilizing solid state storage is maximized when the E-Disk(R)SAN is used in conjunction with BiTMICRO's E-Disk(R) SafeCapacity-Hotfile.

E-Disk(R) SafeCapacity-Hotfile identifies the files on a system that are most often accessed and causing high I/O usage. It eliminates the I/O bottleneck by migrating the "hot-files" to the E-Disk(R)SAN without having to reconfigure any application. The migration is transparent to the user and results in an increase in I/O throughput and decrease in average access times for these applications. This saves time and money for enterprise organizations by optimizing their storage.

The BiTMICRO Fibre-to-Fibre RAID and JBOD solid state flash disk enterprise solutions are included in the E-Disk(R)SAN S2F Flash-SSD series. The S2F-R (RAID) and S2F-J (JBOD) versions feature all redundant, hot-swappable components and can be managed from anywhere in the world with web-based storage E-Disk(R)SAN StorView management software.

For E-Disk(R), E-Disk(R) SafeCapacity-Hotfile and E-Disk(R)SAN StorView technology information, pricing and availability, call +510/74E-DISK / +510/743-3475, e-mail [e-mail] or visit http://www.bitmicro.com.

BiTMICRO E-Disk(R) solid state storage solutions integrates seamlessly in environments running Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL), EMC (NYSE:EMC), Veritas (Nasdaq:VRTS), HP (NYSE:HPQ), Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW), LSI Logic (NYSE:LSI), Unisys (NYSE:UIS), and Sybase (NYSE:SY).

About BiTMICRO Networks

BiTMICRO Networks, Inc. (http://www.bitmicro.com), a privately held California corporation, is the world's premier supplier of high performance solid-state disk, flash drive, and storage management solutions. BiTMICRO's solutions offer unmatched performance, data availability, and manageability across a spectrum of platforms from entry systems to super computers. The E-Disk solutions are currently offered with SCSI, IDE / ATA, or Fibre Channel interfaces in 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch HDD footprints, 19-inch rackmount, PMC and VME / cPCI in 3U and 6U board configurations.

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