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ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1997--MTI Technology Corp. (NASDAQ:MTIC) Monday announced the first product in the company's family of Fibre Channel-based storage systems.

StorageWare FC, a Fibre Channel-attached subsystem, allows customers to begin implementing Fibre Channel architectures immediately and enjoy the benefits of Fibre Channel technology. Acceptance of Fibre Channel is increasing dramatically with Dataquest predicting a $10 billion market by the year 2000.

Fibre Channel is the next generation I/O interface for computer subsystems and peripherals. Current SCSI-II protocols have reached limits which are restricting performance and scaleability for many customer environments. The Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) industry standard offers up to 100MB/second of performance, support for up to 126 devices and cable distances of up to 10Km.

"StorageWare FC has been designed to address the immediate needs of customers in software-based RAID or JBOD environments," said Earl Pearlman, MTI president and chief executive officer.

"Our new FC-AL JBOD product -- StorageWare FC -- is the first of several products in our Fibre Channel family. StorageWare FC will compliment our Fibre channel-based Gladiator RAID arrays which we expect will be shipping later this calendar year."

MTI's first product, StorageWare FC, is designed to give clients a safe and practical entry point for adopting Fibre Channel into their IT environment. StorageWare FC consists of an eight-drive chassis (single rack-mountable shelf), an optional Fibre Channel host adapter, an optional Fibre Channel hub and associated Fibre Channel cables. The shelf utilizes dual 300-Watt power supplies (with dual power cords) and supports hot-swappable power supplies and disk drives.

"There's no doubt that the market is shifting to Fibre Channel technology as a long-term investment," said Thomas Lahive, a senior industry analyst at Dataquest. "Today's highly competitive environments demand a stable technology that offers better performance, increased device count, and greater physical distance. Moving to this new technology is inevitable, but companies will approach it cautiously. I commend MTI for delivering a FC-AL-based subsystem using industry-standard components, satisfying an immediate high-performance demand from its customer base."

MTI's StorageWare FC is currently available, with an approximate four-week lead time. Initially, the product will support IBM(R) AIX(R) 4.2, with SGI(R) IRIX(R) 6.4, Windows NT(R) 4.0, HP-UX(R) 10.2 and Solaris(R) 2.6 support scheduled within the same quarter.

MTI is an active member of both the Fibre Channel Loop Community (FCLC), the Fibre Channel Association (FCA) and the SCSI Trade Association (STA).

MTI's mission is to be the premier provider of high-performance, cross-platform data storage management solutions for the enterprise. MTI integrates distributed data management software, a hierarchy of modular storage systems and on-site services to meet the mass storage needs of its customers. With headquarters in Anaheim, the company offers services and support from more than 40 offices in the United States and Europe.

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