Cornell's Macaulay Library Chooses Exabyte For Automated Data Backup.

BOULDER, Colo. -- Compatibility with Apple OS, superior capacity and flexibility were major factors in selection of Exabyte's Magnum 8x143 Library

Exabyte Corporation (OTCBB:EXBT), a performance and value leader in tape backup, restore and archival systems, today announced the Macaulay Library at Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology has selected the Exabyte Magnum 8x143 Tape Library with LTO(TM) (Ultrium(TM)) Technology to store, protect and manage its valuable audio and video data assets, which includes more than 160,000 digital recordings of wildlife.

After a rigorous assessment of its data storage requirements and evaluating a number of manufacturers' systems, the Macaulay Library - which maintains the world's largest archive of animal sounds and associated video - chose Exabyte because of its strong track record and the suitability of the technology to the Library's current and future needs.

"We found Exabyte more forward thinking than their competitors," stated Marc Dantzker, curator of the Visual Media Collection in the Library. "The Macaulay Library has a heterogeneous OS environment, so Exabyte's cross-platform compatibility was extremely important in our selection. Apple Computer has worked closely with Cornell's Macaulay Library to develop and deploy many of its media solutions. The Exabyte system performs very reliably as a part of this complex data storage environment."

"Our ability to collaborate with Apple Computer was integral to this win and is a hallmark of Exabyte's commitment to our channel and our joint customers," said Tom Ward, president and CEO of Exabyte. "Our success at Cornell reflects the fact that the Magnum 8x143 sets a new benchmark for capacity, speed, scalability, and price for this class of automation along with the high standard of data reliability that customers expect from Exabyte storage products."

Superior customer service and support were also cited as factors in the Library's choice of Exabyte. "Customer service from Exabyte has been superb," Dantzker said. "They've been with us all the way through deployment and integration, and they continue to provide quality support for the inevitable questions that arise."

Teams from Apple and Exabyte worked together to meet the complex requirements at Cornell. Exabyte's Magnum 8x143 tape library is housed off-site for safety, so remote management and reliability was critical to control administrative overhead. "Now that it is all integrated," said Dantzker, "the system runs largely unattended with most all of the administration performed remotely."

The Macaulay Library maintains more than 160,000 recordings of 67 percent of the world's birds, and is rapidly increasing its holdings of insects, fish, frogs and mammals. Its digitized collection currently contains more than six terabytes of information, and is expected to expand by at least three terabytes per year. The Library also requires the back up of several servers and non-archival clients, adding an additional terabyte to the back up system. With a storage capacity of up to 30 terabytes, the Exabyte Magnum 8x143 easily accommodates the Library's current storage needs and will provide for future data storage growth.

Like Cornell, organizations all over the world have chosen Exabyte's innovative tape storage solutions for the value they provide - speed, reliability, capacity, and ease of use at a competitive price - all backed by superior customer service. For more information on Exabyte products or to locate a reseller in your area, visit www.exabyte.com.

About the Magnum 8x143

Exabyte's award-winning Magnum 8x143 Library with LTO Technology offers enterprise-class capability at midrange affordability. With the industry's best combination of capacity, manageability and density, Magnum 8x143 will support storage needs today and provide for future data storage growth. Offering up to 864GB throughput per hour and up to 57TB of capacity in just 20u of rack space, Magnum 8x143 provides well over 2.5TB per rack unit - far more than any other tape library - resulting in the most efficient use of costly data center space. For customers looking for a tape library designed for the specific needs of a SAN application, Magnum 8x143 features the speed, capacity and engineering elegance of a native Fibre Channel interface, backed by Exabyte's heritage of innovation and engineering excellence.

Recognized for its scalability, Magnum 8x143 easily expands from a two drive bays, 20-slot library to an eight drive bays, 143-slot library for the same low price. In addition, it offers a unique 4-way partitioning feature to create up to four separate virtual libraries for SCSI drive interfaces, and eight-way partitioning to create up to eight separate virtual libraries with native Fibre Channel drive interfaces. Its field installable interface cards enable users to mix multiple interfaces (SCSI and Fibre Channel) for more flexible connectivity options for heterogeneous OS environments, including Intel, Unix, and Apple.

With its field replaceable drives, Magnum 8x143 allows for easy upgrades to next generation drive technology and can operate LTO-1, LTO-2 within the same library unit and at the same time - making it ideally suited for users starting to integrate LTO-2 drives into their automated backup scheme. Its enterprise class features, including remote management, bar code readers, partitioning and entry/exit ports, come standard unlike other LTO libraries that charge extra for many of these features. With an MSRP of $24,000 and a 20u form factor, the Magnum 8x143 is the highest-density, most cost-effective LTO automation product on the market today.

About Exabyte Corporation

Exabyte Corporation (OTCBB:EXBT), now entering its 20th year, is a recognized pioneer and leading innovator in tape storage. Its heritage comprises an impressive list of industry "firsts," including the first manufacturer of tape drives to break the 1, 2, and 5 GB capacity barriers, the first to introduce 8mm tape drives and libraries, the first to offer native Fibre Channel drives and libraries, the first to offer FireWire tape drives and libraries and the first and only manufacturer to offer VXA Packet Technology, which enables its VXA Packet drives, autoloaders and tapes to read and write data in packets like the Internet, allowing far superior restore integrity, exceptional transfer speeds and scalable tape capacities. With award-winning VXA Packet Technology, patented ExaBotics(TM) and its innovative engineering approach, Exabyte delivers new VXA(TM) and LTO(TM) (Ultrium(TM)) products that consistently raise the bar for industry standards in engineering, quality and data reliability. The company's product suite is ideally suited for SMB and departmental servers, workstations, LANs, and SANs, providing dramatically higher capacity, speed and reliability at competitive prices. Exabyte has a worldwide network of OEMs, distributors and resellers that share the company's commitment to innovation and customer service, including IBM, HP, Fujitsu Siemens, Apple, Imation, Bull, Toshiba, Logitec, Kontron, Tech Data, Ingram Micro, CDW and Arrow Electronics. For additional information, call 1-800-EXABYTE or visit www.exabyte.com. For investor relations inquiries, contact Kelly Beavers at [e-mail].

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