ECCS Joins Fibre Channel Loop Community.

TINTON FALLS, NJ--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 1998--

RAID Pioneer Brings History of Innovation to Fibre Channel Technology

ECCS, Inc. (NASDAQ Small Cap: ECCS), a technology leader in high availability data storage products, today announced it has joined the Fibre Channel Loop Community (FCLC). The objectives of the FCLC are to: promote the adoption and proliferation of products and services based on FC-AL; provide a support structure for communications companies, component manufacturers, software developers and system integrators, with a focus on the usage of Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) for storage attachment; and participate in activities which direct the evolution and growth of FC-AL.

IDC, the world's leading providers of information and technology data, analysis and consulting, forecasts that 50% of the external storage system revenue will be Fibre Channel based by the year 2000. "Fibre Channel is the most important storage interconnect technology since the announcement of SCSI," said John MacArthur, IDC Program Director, Storage Subsystem Research. "Fibre Channel addresses the scalability and availability requirements of today's enterprise applications and is a key element in delivering tomorrow's clustering solutions."

According to David Boyle, ECCS Vice President of Sales and Marketing, "All our products are driven by customers' requirements for high performance delivery of information and for continuous operations. As a technological leader, ECCS looks forward to the challenge of bringing the FC-AL storage infrastructure to reality. Our implementations will continue to be unique and offer outstanding performance and value to our users." Boyle added that ECCS' high performance storage expertise will enhance the efforts of the organization to promote high performance storage and networking solutions.

ECCS' flagship storage family is the Synchronix(R) SMS that has one of the most robust fault tolerant architectures available. Synchronix was one of the first RAID disk arrays to be rated under the RAB (RAID Advisory Board) EDAP (Extended Data Availability and Protection) classification system in 1996. It provides scalable EDAP to match customers' current application requirements and provide easy expansion and upgrading to the highest EDAP levels as requirements change.

Synchronix is designed for mission critical applications starting at 20 gigabytes, scalable to 1.6 terabytes in a single cabinet. The flexible Synchronix architecture allows customers to connect their mission critical data to multiple heterogeneous hosts with Synchronix protecting data access through automatic array-based failover. This creates an ultimate multi-terabyte continuous access storage solution. Synchronix design also allows mixing drives of various capacities and performance as well as simultaneously supporting multiple RAID levels to fine tune application performance as demands grow.

Fibre Channel technology offers several connectivity benefits over standard parallel SCSI including data transfer rates up to 100 MB/second, dual-loop capability for high availability and support for an increased number of peripherals over a longer distance.

FCLC's membership includes such companies as Adaptec, Compaq, DEC, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu, IBM, Intel, Motorola, National Semiconductor, QLogic, Quantum, Seagate, SGI, Sun Microsystems and Unisys.

For further information about the FCLC, contact Chairman Mike Fitzpatrick at PO Box 2161, Saratoga, CA 95070. FCLC may be reached at 408-867-1385, FAX [phone], and on the worldwide web at http://www.fcloop.org.

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 [phone]. Visit the ECCS web site http://www.eccs.com.

Synchronection and Synchronix are registered trademarks of ECCS, Inc. All other product or company names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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ECCS, Inc.

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