New Network Storage Solutions Poised to Advance IP Security and Surveillance Market.

Zetera Addresses Digital Surveillance Applications with Scalable, High Performance IP Storage

IRVINE, Calif. -- As demand for networked storage explodes in the security industry, Zetera Corporation, a developer of breakthrough network storage technology, offers a solution that is being embraced by the surveillance market for its ability to easily scale storage capacity on demand as the application grows. Storage is one of the gating factors for digital video surveillance applications, due to the sheer volume of data that is captured and retained for later viewing.

Just like cellular phones, video recording, television and radio upgraded from analog to digital formats, the security industry is undergoing the same transformation. At the same time, today's surveillance practices now require increased video capture and the archival and retention of more and more video, making cost effective and scalable storage essential. Zetera is addressing the IP surveillance market's shift from analog systems to digital platforms and the need to capture and store more video by offering massive low-cost, high-performance digital storage for IP video.

The company's NBOD[TM] ("networked bunch of disks") solutions deliver a low-cost, high-performance storage application that adapts to meet IP surveillance needs. "We are seeing strong interest in NBOD solutions in markets where IP video storage requirements are huge and growing," said Zetera's president and CEO, Chuck Cortright. "From industrial applications such as retail security to the deployment of a petabyte-scale academic project, our technology is fueling the next wave of applications."

Throughout the storage industry, Zetera's technology has been recognized as delivering all the benefits of a storage area network (SAN) with the simplicity of direct-attached storage (DAS). NBOD-based storage products combine the best attributes of storage expansion and consolidation options to deliver solutions that are lower cost, less complex and ensure future expandability.

"The desire for longer retention of captured video, more cameras, and higher video quality is causing the storage requirements for the surveillance video industry to grow exponentially. These increased storage requirements drive solutions toward shared storage on the network, but the challenge has been that network attached storage (NAS) based solutions suffer in performance and scalability, and iSCSI and Fibre Channel SANs have been too costly and complex. NBODs deliver the best of all worlds, providing simplicity and low cost points comparable to DAS, with virtually unlimited scalability of capacity and performance," added Cortright.

In fact, this week POLAR Industries, Inc., the leading provider of network recording equipment for the security industry, is introducing a line of NBOD-based network video recorders designed for use in security systems and other applications. POLAR's ZNVR[TM] network video recorder, the first of its kind, incorporates Zetera's NBOD solution to provide scalable, affordable digital storage for IP video.

An extreme example of a large-scale deployment for IP surveillance is a storage array at the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The Media Lab array, which is constructed with low-cost building blocks based on Zetera's innovative Z-SAN[R] technology, is being used to collect and analyze video and audio data for the "Human Speechome Project." The massive MIT research project is designed to better understand early childhood cognitive development by amassing several terabytes per week of digital audio and video (A/V) recordings of data. By mid-2008, the information will have been assembled into a database exceeding one petabyte (1,000 terabytes) in total capacity with the help of Zetera's technology.

About Zetera NBOD Solutions

Zetera's NBOD family of solutions is based on the company's Z-SAN architecture. Unlike other storage architectures, Z-SAN technology simultaneously optimizes the four fundamental factors that drive the success of a network storage system - scalability, performance, reliability and cost. It uses Internetworking Protocol (IP) to deliver all of the networked benefits of a SAN without the expense or complexity.

Products based on Z-SAN technology are simple to install, configure and manage. In addition, they offer full virtualization, delivering storage and data sharing across multiple devices in different locations, without the burden of complex and expensive virtualization software. Zetera-enabled storage can reside anywhere on the network, making it available to be shared, spanned with other network storage, or mirrored to any location.

About Zetera Corporation

Zetera Corporation is the developer of Z-SAN[R] technology, storage over Internetworking Protocol (IP) technology that enables networked storage to be realized at unprecedented price-performance levels. This new class of network storage technology that is superior in performance, cost, scalability and compatibility to all other types of network storage. The Z-SAN architecture has been shipped in more than 150,000 networked storage solutions, including those from NETGEAR[R] and Bell Microproducts, transtec AG, Choiceway Technologies Co., Ltd., Huaqi Information Digital Technology Co., Ltd and AnexTEK Global. Based in Irvine, California, Zetera licenses its Z-SAN technology to leading storage, computer, peripheral and device manufacturers worldwide and sells its own brand through the North American distribution channel. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.zetera.com.

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