Computer Associates Features XIOtech's MAGNITUDE as Elite Storage Area Network Hardware Platform For 14 Virtual eBusiness Centers.

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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 29, 2002

XIOtech Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Seagate Technology and a storage area network (SAN) pioneer, today announced that its MAGNITUDE(TM) SAN hardware platform will be demonstrated to customers in new Virtual eBusiness Centers (VECs) built by Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). Established in 13 cities across North America, the VECs demonstrate integrated storage and management solutions from CA, XIOtech, and other partners.

"XIOtech's MAGNITUDE is flexible, easy to implement, and offers an excellent hardware platform on which to demonstrate the power of CA's storage solutions," said Ron Collier, area manager, storage solutions, CA. "These Virtual eBusiness Center demonstrations are essential for showing customers how SANs and other leading-edge technologies can ensure the performance, cost-efficiency and reliability of their eBusiness infrastructure."

"The flexibility of the MAGNITUDE hardware platform makes it perfect for enterprise storage environments, like the CA VECs," said Richard Blaschke, executive vice president of sales and marketing for XIOtech. "Users don't have to be seasoned experts in storage systems in order to use the MAGNITUDE, which is a tremendous benefit for customers. We are proud that we have been invited to be a part of the CA Virtual eBusiness Center team."

CA VECs are located in New York City; Toronto; Chicago; Los Angeles; Boston; Herndon, VA; Dallas; Atlanta; Phoenix; St. Louis; Denver; Orlando; and Islandia, N.Y.

The VECs provide customers with access to market-leading technologies and solutions for enterprise infrastructure management, information management, and process management needs. In the VECs, CA and its partners showcase their ability to address all aspects of eBusiness management with integrated, world-class solutions. CA's industry-leading brands include Unicenter for infrastructure management, BrightStor for storage management, eTrust for security management, CleverPath for portal and business intelligence, AllFusion for application life cycle management, Advantage for data management and application development, and Jasmine for object-oriented database technology.

Specifically, CA's comprehensive BrightStor portfolio delivers highly scalable storage management across mobile-to-mainframe platforms, enabling organizations to protect, manage and integrate valuable data assets with optimum reliability and operational efficiency.

XIOtech's MAGNITUDE hardware platform along with its tightly integrated REDI(TM) software family fully supports new, improved backup technologies such as CA's BrightStor Enterprise Backup and BrightStor ARCserve Backup for LAN-free and serverless backup solutions.

About Computer Associates Virtual eBusiness Centers

The Virtual eBusiness Centers are state-of-the-art facilities that provide customers with working solutions for their eBusiness processes and needs. The approach of integrating and demonstrating CA's and their partners' solutions at one location lets customers realize simple, meaningful solutions to their complicated business challenges. The concept has been so successful since the original VEC was started several years ago that it is being expanded to eventually include 21 locations.

About XIOtech

XIOtech Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Seagate, develops comprehensive network storage solutions for business customers. The XIOtech MAGNITUDE hardware platform is based on the company's exclusive REal-Time Data Intelligence (REDI) software family--the first in the industry to incorporate true storage virtualization. The MAGNITUDE hardware platform, along with XIOtech's comprehensive suite of application-specific software, makes storing, managing, safeguarding, and retrieving data on heterogeneous computing platforms easy and cost effective. For more information, visit XIOtech's Web site at www.xiotech.com, call [phone] or email [e-mail].

About Seagate

Seagate is the world's leading provider of storage technology for Internet, business, and consumer applications. The company's products include disk drives for the enterprise, PC, and consumer electronics markets, as well as storage area network (SAN) solutions. Seagate's market leadership is based on delivering award-winning products, customer support, and reliability to meet the world's growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at www.seagate.com.

XIOtech is a registered trademark and MAGNITUDE and REDI are trademarks of XIOtech Corporation. Seagate and Seagate Technology are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.