Cloverleaf Joins the StorageTek TekAlliance Partner Program; Offers Certified Interoperability with FlexLine(TM) Disk Products; Cloverleaf's iSN Provides StorageTek Customers with a Single System to Seamlessly Integrate and Manage Both NAS and SAN.

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. -- Cloverleaf Communications, the first to deliver Quality of Service for multi-vendor storage networks, and StorageTek(R) (Storage Technology Corporation) (NYSE:STK), the world's most trusted partner for storing and managing critical business information, today jointly announced the Cloverleaf Intelligent Storage Networking(TM) (iSN(TM)) system has been certified as interoperable with the SANtricity software suite and the StorageTek FlexLine(TM) 200 and 300 Series disk storage systems.

Based on proven technology, Cloverleaf's iSN offers StorageTek's resellers and end-users the ability to easily integrate NAS services into the SAN utilizing a single, centralized system for simplified storage network management and improved IT staff efficiency. The iSN also delivers policy-based automation, significantly easing deployment. Most importantly, in alignment with StorageTek's Information Lifecycle Management strategy, Cloverleaf's iSN widely supports the Information Lifecycle Management process across SAN and NAS, resulting in Quality of Service (QoS) in support of Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

Additionally, Cloverleaf's iSN gives StorageTek customers a complete, modular selection of advanced data protection and disaster recovery services implemented on a scalable, highly available architecture that can be installed gradually over time as needed. Services such as thin provisioning, data migration, virtual and physical replication, and capacity and bandwidth management of tiered storage are now available for mid-range to global enterprises.

"By passing StorageTek's interoperability testing requirements, StorageTek customers can now confidently adopt the iSN system in their data centers and reap a variety of unique benefits," said Joseph Klein co-founder and COO of Cloverleaf. "With Cloverleaf's iSN, IT executives can maximize all resources with a central management system that is completely technology and vendor agnostic, providing Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities for Service Level Agreements for operational flexibility and efficiency. This allows CIOs of mid- to high-end enterprises to define and maintain their policy flexibly to best utilize their current assets, not only storage capacity, but also bandwidth and services to support their organizational business goals. At the end of the day, this is why organizations are investing so much in their IT centers, to make their data available and accessible any time and anywhere they need it."

"StorageTek already offers customers the simplest, most effective ways to protect their data, and the addition of the Cloverleaf iSN to our portfolio of TekAlliance(TM) and NAS partners gives our customers even more options," said Cameron van Orman, director of Corporate Alliances at StorageTek. "Our mid-size and enterprise customers will greatly benefit from iSN's ability to provide a comprehensive set of services in a single policy-based storage management system."

"Customers are looking for ways to enhance the value of storage investments," said John McArthur, Group Vice President and General Manager of Information Infrastructure Research at IDC. "But they also want the confidence that come from the support of industry leaders. StorageTek's certification of Cloverleaf gives storage professionals the confidence that they can combine Cloverleaf's technology with complementary StorageTek products and services to achieve simplified management and greater business flexibility."

About StorageTek's TekAlliance Program

StorageTek's TekAlliance program provides a standard, efficient method for qualified storage solution partners to test their hardware and software technology for interoperability with StorageTek products. The program is designed to meet increasingly complex customer configuration requirements with jointly sold interoperable solutions. With TekAlliance partners, customers can be confident that their multi-vendor solution is a safe, workable investment.

About Cloverleaf Communications Inc.

Cloverleaf provides an Intelligent Storage Networking(TM) (iSN(TM)) system, based on proven technology, offering a complete set of software services that can be implemented in modules or all at once. Unlike other industry offerings, the Cloverleaf system is scalable and non-disruptive to deploy and is the only system available that is technology and vendor agnostic across all services. The iSN enables IT organizations to be more responsive to the business through operational flexibility and efficiency, creating Quality of Service (QoS) offerings that can be implemented over time to meet or exceed all SLA's.

Founded in 2001, privately-held Cloverleaf is headquartered in Southborough, Mass. with a technology development office in Israel. The company delivers its product to customers both direct and through an elite channel of system integration partners located in North America and Europe. For more information, visit www.cllf.com or call ([phone].

"Certified interoperability" and "certification" are not a guarantee, but are an indication that very specific configurations of each company's product(s) have been tested together, on a specific platform (OS), if applicable, and have been found to be a working, supportable configuration by both companies.

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