ECCS Announces Call Home Features and Software To Ease Migration of Open Systems Data.

TINTON FALLS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 1998--

Synchronix(R) now provides central management

and configurable event monitoring 

ECCS, Inc (NASDAQ SmallCap: ECCS), a technology leader in high availability data storage products, today announced a new release of its pioneering Synchronix RAID Manager software for Open Systems. This latest version of storage management software simplifies management of data pools on Synchronix open systems storage products, including Synchronix 1000 and the new Synchronix Family of Enterprise Storage Platform (ESP) systems.

ECCS customers can monitor multiple Synchronix units co-located or distributed organization-wide and control mission-critical storage environments from one central point. This offers a powerful productivity advantage for database administrators. The ability to consolidate the management of distributed data enhances the value of Synchronix Enterprise Storage by reducing the time and resources required for configure and monitor Synchronix storage systems in Windows NT and Unix environments. Synchronix provides the ability to access data across the enterprise and across heterogeneous platforms. This enables easy movement of data between UNIX-based and NT hosts, as well as between different UNIX platforms.

"RemoteAttention(TM) and RemoteAlert!(TM) address many of the complex data storage management requirements we see at our worldwide customer sites," said David Boyle, vice president of sales and marketing, ECCS. "Our customers, including large banking, financial, e-commerce and retail organizations, have multiple terabyte database environments running on a wide variety of hardware platforms and operating systems. Now Synchronix allows customers to not only access data in a mixed environment, but also to manage terabyte and petabyte capacities of data, monitor and manage database space, and monitor operation and status with the click of a button. What ECCS and Synchronix offer is the ability to customize your notification thresholds and the medium through which you are alerted."

Synchronix RAID Manager, RemoteAttention and RemoteAlert!: Working Together to Protect Mission-critical Data

These two additional products extend the capabilities of Synchronix RAID Manager to provide enterprise-wide monitoring and alert features that are especially valuable in mission-critical environments. RemoteAttention, previously an optional service, is now a standard feature on the Synchronix family of high performance continuously available data storage subsystems. RemoteAttention is an advanced software product that provides round-the-clock monitoring of all active subsystem components and notification of any errors detected. Any number of Synchronix subsystems may be monitored and managed by a single monitoring system enabling Central Station Management while also supporting network access. This enables the administrator to manage all the Synchronix subsystems from the central monitoring/administrative station or even from his or her desktop.

RemoteAlert! allows users to tailor the frequency of event monitoring, the level of error reporting and select multiple messaging capabilities to suit their mission-critical applications. RemoteAlert! provides notification via paging, e-mail or GUI display. This could include screen messages anywhere on your host system or network, e-mailing, alphanumeric paging your support staff, or any combination. In addition, the Event Management service is able to generate SNMP traps, log the event to a file, interface to syslogd (Unix) and/or the Event Viewer (Windows NT).

Price and Availability

ECCS storage management software is Year 2000 compliant. RemoteAttention is a standard feature of all Synchronix Storage Management Systems and is shipping on every major UNIX platform, including Sun Microsystems' Solaris, Hewlett-Packard's HP UX, IBM AIX and SCO as well as Microsoft NT. RemoteAlert! pricing depends upon the number of subsystems monitored.

About ECCS

ECCS provides intelligent solutions to store, protect and access mission critical information for Open Systems and related markets. The company designs, manufactures and sells high performance, fault tolerant data storage solutions for a wide range of customer requirements. ECCS' flagship product, Synchronix(R), which the company began selling in 1996, is a full feature RAID (redundant array of independent disks) product family designed for use in Windows NT and UNIX clustered environments. The Company's product line includes the RAVEN HA server data storage system and Synchronection(R) network file server. ECCS' products are compatible with most Open System computing platforms and enable customers to store, protect and access data and to centralize data management functions across an organization's disparate computer environments. As a senior member of the RAID Advisory Board, ECCS is licensed to display the RAB GOLD Logo for Synchronix, signifying a Failure Tolerant Disk System Plus (FTDS+). For further information on the Synchronix Storage System, contact David Boyle, Vice President Sales and Marketing for ECCS at 732/747-6995. Visit the ECCS web site http://www.eccs.com.

Synchronix, RemoteAttention, RemoteAlert! and the ECCS logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of ECCS Inc. All other brand and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

CONTACT: ECCS, Inc., Tinton Falls

David Reilly, Director of Marketing, 732/747-6995 x276

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