NEOPATH FILE DIRECTOR IDEAL FOR NAS MIGRATION/TIERING.

NeoPath Networks, Mountain View, Calif. a leading provider of network file management (NFM) solutions, has announced that File Director(TM), its flagship offering, has earned the strong endorsement of the Taneja Group, a technology analyst firm specializing in storage technologies. The firm conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the File Director's network- attached storage (NAS) tiering and migration capabilities, the results of which are in a report and available at http://www.neopathnetworks.com/taneja_fdreview.pdf.

The industry's most advanced NFM solution designed for tiered storage environments, File Director enables organizations to reduce their operational and administrative costs, improve capacity utilization, and accelerate the return on their IT investment. "We were extremely impressed with all aspects of our testing and found that File Director achieves all the key NFM and NAS virtualization functionality in a scalable and robust fashion," said Brad O'Neill, senior analyst and consultant, Taneja Group. O'Neill, who authored the report, is attributed with defining the NFM category more than a year ago.

According to the Taneja Group report, network file management as an approach to NAS virtualization is gaining a high degree of market attention, and understanding NFM is the key to significantly improved NAS management for a wide range of medium and large enterprises.

The Taneja Group thoroughly tested the migration capabilities of File Director in a heterogeneous storage environment. File Director provided fast, low-latency operations for all of the testing scenarios, leading the firm to conclude that "the NeoPath offering is ideally suited for enterprises exploring new solutions to perennial NAS migration and tiering challenges."

Furthermore, File Director is an easily deployed and managed solution that does the following:

-- Is non-disruptive to clients

-- Works reliably across heterogeneous NAS systems

-- Has a high-performance bulk migration and tiering capability

-- Supports simple and sophisticated policy-based migration schema

-- Seamlessly supports concurrent access via NFS and CIFS protocols

"We are very pleased that File Director earned top performance marks from the Taneja Group," said Alan Baratz, CEO, NeoPath Networks. "We've developed a best-in-class solution that addresses the demanding challenges of NAS migration and tiering. The Taneja Group has deep experience with all aspects of storage technology, and their strong validation of File Director's performance complements the feedback we're getting from customers who use our solution to slash their storage and administrative costs and simplify the management of their unstructured file data."

About NeoPath Networks

NeoPath Networks is the leading provider of network file management (NFM) solutions. The company's NFM solutions simplify and automate the management of unstructured file data, reducing customers' operational and capital costs. NeoPath's flagship product, File Director(TM), includes real-time file characterization, policy-based file management, file migration during client access, and namespace virtualization for transparency. NeoPath investors include August Capital, DCM-Doll Capital, DotEdu Ventures, and Gabriel Venture Partners.

For more information, call 650/691-7700 or visit http://www.neopathnetworks.com.