Cambex Unveils The Centurion 2000 FF - A Powerful, Scalable, And Affordable Full-Fibre Channel Disk Storage Solution.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2000

The Centurion(TM) 2000 FF Offers Enterprise Class Functionality and

Outstanding Value for Building Heterogeneous Storage Area Networks

Cambex Corporation today introduced the Centurion 2000 FF, a `full-Fibre' Channel disk storage system, at the SAN 2000 Conference in San Jose. The Centurion 2000 FF outperforms all leading storage arrays in its class and offers the industry's best value for full Fibre Channel storage. The Centurion 2000 FF is targeted at enterprises running mission-critical Internet, e-commerce, on-line transaction processing, data warehousing, and multimedia applications. The full Fibre Channel RAID arrays delivers up to 360 MB/second sustained sequential reads and has the capability to scale up to a maximum storage capacity of 25 terabytes. Available immediately, Cambex's Centurion 2000 FF full Fibre Channel disk array delivers unprecedented price/performance with large configurations priced as low as $0.05 per MB.

The Centurion 2000 FF is ideal for deploying heterogeneous Storage Area Networks (SAN) in IBM, Sun, HP, Windows, and Linux environments. SANs greatly enhance and simplify the centralized management and sharing of storage resources while providing improved availability, scalability, performance, and disaster recovery. Having undergone extensive interoperability testing, Centurion is guaranteed to work with leading Fibre Channel host bus adapters, hubs, switches, and management software in arbitrated loop or fabric SAN deployments.

The business value derived from the Centurion 2000 FF, is a unified and centrally managed information infrastructure that seamlessly supports the entire enterprise. Centurion reduces costs by allowing the sharing of storage resources while its scalability provides businesses with the flexibility to respond rapidly to new or growing opportunities.

"With the introduction of the Centurion 2000 FF, Cambex can address one of the biggest challenges IT managers face today - building interoperable SANs with continuous data availability," stated Peter Kruy, Executive Vice President of Cambex. "Coupled with our FibreQuik family of Fibre Channel infrastructure products and our high availability Dynamic Path Failover software, Cambex can deliver enterprise-class, `full Fibre' Channel storage with best in class pricing and performance."

A fully redundant architecture ensures no single point of failure - redundant components include RAID controllers, power supplies, fans, AC power cords, Fibre I/O modules and global hot spares. All critical system components are hot swappable allowing for zero downtime maintenance. To guarantee data integrity, Centurion's sophisticated dual-active RAID controllers provide concurrent support for RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 10, 30, and 50.

Cambex's Dynamic Path Failover(TM)(DPF) software provides an added level of data availability and performance for Centurion users. Host-based DPF software, used with Cambex's FibreQuik(TM) Fibre Channel host bus adapters, delivers full data path redundancy for superior data availability, dynamic and static load balancing, and operates in active-active mode to provide up to twice the performance when accessing storage from a Centurion 2000 FF array.

Centurion's building block modularity allows users to start with configurations as small as 2 disk drives (18 GB), but with the ability to scale up to 384 disk drives (25 TB) behind a pair of RAID controllers in any combination of 9-, 18-, 36-, 50-, or 73-GB Fibre Channel drives.

Centurion Storage Manager(TM), an intuitive GUI-based management and configuration application, allows for single seat management of Centurion 2000 FF arrays from anywhere in the world. Users can monitor the status of system components, gather performance statistics, and dynamically reallocate storage to specific clients on the SAN.

About Cambex Corporation

Cambex, headquartered in Waltham, MA, develops, manufactures and markets leading-edge Fibre Channel hardware and software solutions for building Storage Area Networks (SANs). The company offers high performance Fibre Channel host bus adapters and hubs, high availability software, Full-Fibre Channel RAID arrays and management software for the deployment of heterogeneous SAN solutions, providing companies the competitive advantage of constant data access, storage consolidation and centralized management. The Company also supplies memory for IBM (NYSE:IBM) enterprise servers. Cambex is a member of the Fibre Channel Industry Association, the Storage Networking Industry Association, the FibreAlliance, and the HP Open SAN Initiative. Cambex can be reached at 781-890-6000, or on the World Wide Web at www.cambex.com. Centurion, FibreQuik, Dynamic Path Failover, and Centurion Storage Manager are trademarks of Cambex Corporation; other trademarks are the properties of their respective holders.

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