EMC NetWorker Customers Benefit from ExaGrid's Proven Disk-Based Backup Solution and Test-Certified Compatibility.

Cost-Effective, Scalable Disk Backup Technology Now Available for NetWorker

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. -- ExaGrid Systems, Inc., (www.exagrid.com) the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions, today announced that the ExaGrid Disk-based Backup system now supports EMC NetWorker[R] software. The combination of EMC's industry-leading backup application, and ExaGrid's turnkey disk-based backup solution with 2X compression and advanced 20 to 1 byte-level data de-duplication technology, enables customers to significantly reduce costs, shrink their backup window, improve recovery times and easily protect more data in a substantially smaller storage footprint.

By combining EMC NetWorker software with the ExaGrid Disk-based Backup system, customers can immediately:

* Store long-term backup retention directly from EMC NetWorker to disk, eliminating the hassles of tape

* Take advantage of byte-level data de-duplication technology for the best price/performance disk-based backup solution

* Reduce the backup window by 30 to 80 percent

* Enable fast and reliable restores since ExaGrid uniquely stores the latest copy of backup jobs in whole form without requiring rebuilds from millions of fragmented data "chunks"

* Expand their disk backup solution as data grows using ExaGrid's plug-and-play GRID-based architecture

* Benefit from a complete system that has built-in hot-spares, RAID6 and "phone home" automation for maintenance and support

* Purchase only the backup storage space they need with the advantage of 20 to 1 or more data de-duplication

"EMC NetWorker customers can be up and running with the ExaGrid system in less than a half hour. All they do is point their NetWorker backup jobs to NAS shares on the ExaGrid system and begin backing data up," said Bill Andrews, president and CEO of ExaGrid Systems. "Besides being easy to implement, ExaGrid's byte-level data de-duplication technology and flexible GRID-based architecture allows cost effective plug-and-play scalability as customers' data grows."

EMC NetWorker joins a growing list of leading backup applications supported by the ExaGrid Disk-based Backup system. Supported, test-certified, applications include: CA ARCserve[R], CommVault[R] Galaxy[TM], Symantec Backup Exec[TM], Symantec Veritas NetBackup[TM] and Microsoft SQL "Dumps."

About EMC NetWorker

The EMC NetWorker family is the fastest and most flexible backup and recovery solution in the industry. NetWorker protects your critical enterprise applications at record speed. NetWorker's intuitive user interface and policy-based backup engine help automate and simplify the entire backup and recovery process. Powerful snapshot management provides instant data protection and rapid recovery by giving you complete control of third-party snapshot tools. NetWorker is also the leader in backup-to-disk solutions to further accelerate recovery of your data.

About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.

Located in Westborough, Massachusetts, ExaGrid is the leader in cost-effective disk-based backup solutions. A highly scalable system that works with existing backup applications, ExaGrid is ideal for mid-market and small enterprise companies looking to quickly eliminate the hassles of tape backup while reducing their existing backup windows. ExaGrid's innovative approach minimizes the amount of data to be stored by providing standard data compression for the most recent backups along with byte-level data de-duplication technology for all previous backups. Customers can deploy the ExaGrid system at a primary site and at a second site to supplement or eliminate offsite tapes with a live data repository or for disaster recovery. For more information, contact ExaGrid at 800-868-6985 or visit www.exagrid.com.

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