Exanet Announces Groundbreaking ExaStore - ICM (Intelligent Cluster Management) NAS Solution.

Delivers Enterprise-Standard Features Without Compromising the High Performance and Scalability of Clustered NAS 

HERZLIYA, Israel -- Exanet, the leader in high-performance, clustered NAS software, today announced the release of ExaStore[R] - ICM (Intelligent Cluster Management), a new breed of enterprise software that provides next-generation storage and delivery to a wide range of demanding enterprise applications.

As a software vendor, Exanet is the only company to provide unlimited, on-the-fly bandwidth and capacity scalability in a clustered NAS environment. Its performance-optimized architecture, together with its use of standard, off-the-shelf hardware, provides best-of-breed solutions for any application or budget, resulting in the best price/performance recorded by a NAS vendor.

Rami Schwartz, Exanet CEO, said, "Exanet has once again taken the technology lead in NAS with ExaStore - ICM, providing all the critical enterprise-level features needed to meet the most complex storage challenges. If you add that to the system's high performance and unlimited scalability, our solution opens up new business opportunities for blue chip customers in telecommunications, broadcasting, active archiving and other areas where data is growing exponentially and needs to be constantly available." Schwartz noted, "By selling 100% through channel partners, we offer both our customers and our partners the freedom to choose the best configuration for their needs. Indeed, we are transforming the storage paradigm, and have evolved data storage from a necessary expense into an efficient business enabler."

With the groundbreaking ExaStore - ICM, Exanet has achieved a series of industry firsts, including the first Continuous Data Protection (CDP) solution to fully integrate with a clustered NAS platform. ExaStore CDP offers advanced Point-in-Time[TM] functionality, which enables users to capture an infinite set of snapshots, enabling a return to any given recovery point.

ExaStore - ICM offers automated storage management that simplifies system operation and maintenance, and dramatically drives down the total cost of ownership of enterprise NAS. The system's new virtual volume capability allows dynamic expansion or reallocation of storage capacity according to changing business needs, and provides an additional level of control and flexibility for capacity management and provisioning. Additionally, ExaStore's unique single file system and single storage pool ensure maximum utilization of disk space.

Harnessing commodity hardware into a complete storage solution, ExaStore - ICM offers unique interoperability, providing support for NFS, CIFS and AFP protocols, to enable file sharing between Apple, UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft clients.

According to Brad O'Neill, Senior Analyst & Consultant at Taneja Group, "It is abundantly clear that Exanet is in the clustered storage game. Their benchmarks are record-setting, and their price/performance metrics are equally compelling by virtue of their software-based deployment. This is the exact direction that we believe the entire industry needs to head, but Exanet is doing it today."

About Exanet

Exanet continues to break the storage limits with its ExaStore clustered NAS software solution. Designed for the most demanding enterprise customers, ExaStore delivers capacity-on-demand for data-intensive applications while simplifying network storage management. The system's breakthrough storage architecture enables unlimited on-the-fly scalability with unparalleled performance and the best cost-per-IOPS of any NAS cluster solution on the market today. Exanet is headquartered in Israel, with US headquarters in New York, and offices in Europe and Japan. ExaStore systems are available through Exanet partners worldwide. For more information, please visit www.exanet.com.