Caringo CTO Chosen to Give Keynote Address at Microsoft European Sharepoint Conference 2007.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Paul Carpentier, the inventor of content addressed storage (CAS), a technology that has turned into a multi-billion dollar market, and one of the founders of CAS innovator Caringo, Inc., will be delivering the keynote speech on the second day of the upcoming Microsoft European Sharepoint Conference 2007, February 12-14 in Berlin, Germany. The speech is scheduled for Tuesday, February 13 at 9:00 a.m.

The 2007 SharePoint Conference in Berlin will introduce attendees from at least 11 countries to leading solutions enabled by SharePoint Server 2007. More than 100 partners and 120 presentations will demonstrate how users can easily create, manage and monitor content and processes across the entire enterprise; ensure 24/7 access to all business-critical information; and improve communication and collaboration among your employees, customers and suppliers.

Carpentier will be speaking about the future of content storage, showing how traditional storage architectures are increasingly unable to effectively and economically deal with today's requirements of storing and protecting chunks of unstructured information, such as documents and multimedia objects. Generated in huge quantities by popular applications, these are typically stored on DAS/NAS/SAN systems where they take up to 90% of available space and resources, complicating storage management and exceeding budgets in the process. There now is a dramatically better way to deal with content storage requirements; the combination of SharePoint and CAStor provides an excellent business case illustrating this fresh approach.

At Caringo, Carpentier spearheaded the development of second-generation CAS software for fixed content storage. Designed from the ground up to ensure integrity, the company's CAStor software blasts through the barriers of file systems, providing scalability, performance and flexibility using commodity hardware. Prior to Caringo, Carpentier was the architect of SequeLink - the first client/server middleware product to connect heterogeneous front ends running over multiple networks to multiple databases on the server side. Carpentier founded Wave Research and conceived FileWave, the first fully automated, model-driven software distribution and management system. At FilePool, he invented the technology that created the Content Addressed Storage industry. FilePool was sold to EMC who turned CAS into a multi-billion dollar marketplace. Carpentier has six patents in his name. Based on two of those, Caringo delivers a quantum leap in CAS-based data storage in much the same manner that CAS created a whole new marketplace.

Recently integrated with SharePoint, Caringo's flagship product CAStor has disrupted the traditional approach to CAS. CAStor offers key advantages for fixed-content storage, such as hardware and OS-independence, massive scalability, high performance, built-in disaster recovery, backup and continuous data availability, and guaranteed data integrity that is impervious to attack as well as auditable and independently provable for evidentiary purposes. CAStor is self-configuring, managing and healing, and features a standard HTTP interface. Hashing algorithms may be transparently upgraded during operation, without ever changing identifiers or reloading data, thus protecting against the decline in credibility brought on by the attacks and breaches that first-generation CAS systems are increasingly vulnerable to.

About Caringo

Caringo, Inc. has re-imagined content addressed storage software from the ground up. CAStor is next-generation technology that leverages the customer's choice of commodity hardware to dramatically improve the scope and economics of corporate fixed content storage. Caringo founders operate according to Einstein's belief that "Things should be made as simple as possible." Rather than make CAS complex and expensive, Caringo makes it affordable, scalable, fast and easy. More information can be found at www.caringo.com.

Caringo and CAStor are trademarks of Caringo, Inc. Other companies and products mentioned herein may be trademarks or trade names of their respective owners.

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