Crossroads Teams With Quantum To Provide Two Gigabit Fibre Channel Connectivity.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2003

Channel Program Bundles "Best-in-Class" Storage Routers and Enterprise

Storage Automation for Faster Performance

Crossroads Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CRDS), a leading global provider for storage networking solutions, and Quantum Corp., a leading provider of data protection systems, today announced a new channel program that bundles Crossroads storage routers with Quantum ATL P-Series tape libraries to authorized solution providers.

The bundle provides resellers a complete solution for the latest 2Gb Fibre Channel technology from Crossroads and tape automation from Quantum.

"Partnering with Quantum for this channel initiative is a key step to expanding our market share in storage routing," said Rob Sims, Crossroads chief operating officer. "By bringing together the industry-leading technologies of both Crossroads and Quantum, we have jointly created a win-win scenario for our customers."

"Bundling Crossroads and Quantum products underscores our commitment to delivering flexible, scalable automation solutions to our customers," said Kristine Mitchell, P-Series product manager for Quantum's Storage Solutions Group. "A vast majority of our customers protect their data using a Fibre Channel SAN, and 2Gb Fibre Channel is becoming mainstream. We support our channel partners in delivering an interoperable 2Gb solution."

By leveraging the Crossroads 10000 embedded Access Controls, Fibre Channel servers can share access to Quantum ATL P4000 and ATL P7000 enterprise tape libraries. These servers are then able to fully realize the increased performance and storage capacity of Quantum's ATL P-Series enterprise tape libraries with second-generation LTO tape drives. With Quantum's Prism Storage Architecture(TM), maximum flexibility is allowed to make technology changes with minimal disruption to existing infrastructure and operations.

The solution is available immediately through Quantum's extensive channel network of authorized solution providers in the United States and Canada. For more information on the program please send email inquiries to [e-mail].

About Crossroads 10000 Storage Router

With the Crossroads 10000, customers gain tremendous manageability and insight into how tape-based storage can be allocated and efficiently utilized. The 10000 adds intelligence into the SAN so that tape libraries can be optimized for policy-based data management, such as needed for backup and restore or in disaster recovery solutions. Featuring enterprise-class high availability, the 10000 includes redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fans. Field replaceable I/O modules provide connectivity into 1 or 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel, SCSI LVD or HVD, and are upgradeable for future support of emerging technologies such as iSCSI. Server-free backup is supported to minimize the use of server resources required for backup by allowing data movement tasks, such as between tape and disk, to be offloaded from the server to the router.

About Crossroads Systems Inc.

With headquarters in Austin, Texas, Crossroads Systems (Nasdaq:CRDS) is a leading global provider of data routing solutions for Storage Area Networks (SANs). Crossroads solutions serve the growing storage connectivity and data storage markets, and are designed to help companies store, manage and ensure the integrity and availability of their data. Crossroads' products are in solutions from companies such as Fujitsu-Siemens, Hewlett-Packard (including Compaq) and StorageTek, and are distributed through partners such as ACAL, ARROW, XIOtech and Tidal Wire. Crossroads is a voting member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). For more information about Crossroads Systems, please visit www.crossroads.com or call 800/643-7148.

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