ProStor Systems Integrates Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 into InfiniVault Archive Appliance.

BOULDER, Colo. -- ProStor Systems, a leading developer of removable disk storage solutions, today announced that its new InfiniVault[TM] archive appliance utilizes the Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 operating system to ensure seamless integration into customers' current infrastructures or heterogeneous file serving environments, providing small and medium enterprises with a best-in-class solution that reduces costs while delivering fast, secure and reliable archival storage.

Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 is used by original equipment manufacturers, like ProStor Systems, to consolidate file-serving functions onto one device and is designed to integrate seamlessly into heterogeneous environments with support for major network operating system protocols and with all popular management utilities. InfiniVault uses the Microsoft software to provide a standard network interface for fast active file access and support for multiple independent archives providing terabytes of online, nearline and infinite offline digital archive capacity.

"Customers looking to reduce the costs of disk space and data management for long-term archival storage now have a solution in ProStor's InfiniVault," said Bala Kasiviswanathan, director of Storage Solutions marketing at Microsoft. "The InfiniVault archive appliance with Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 will provide a reliable and cost-effective solution to our mutual customers."

InfiniVault provides an unbeatable digital archive and compliance system that reduces storage costs by combining long-term data retention, regulatory compliance, automated data archiving and disaster recovery protection in a single, simple-to-deploy and easy-to-use appliance. By leveraging its RDX[R] removable disk technology, ProStor has created the world's first archiving solution that combines the performance and rapid retrieval of conventional hard disk drives with the unlimited capacity scalability and disaster recovery protection of removable media but with a system design that is far more reliable than tape.

"ProStor continues to work closely with industry vendors like Microsoft to develop both current and future technology to meet customer needs," said Steve Georgis, CEO and president of ProStor Systems. "Through our strategic relationship with Microsoft, small and mid-sized enterprise customers can be sure that the InfiniVault will continue to provide them with simple, secure, intelligent and affordable archiving today and tomorrow."

ProStor joins Microsoft in its Partner Pavilion at Storage Networking World at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Dallas today through October 18 to showcase the InfiniVault archive appliance publicly for the first time. In addition, ProStor will exhibit its new InfiniVault archive appliance in Booth No. # C-7.

About ProStor Systems

ProStor Systems is the leader in enterprise-class removable disk storage for data backup and long-term archive. Designed to replace tape, RDX removable disk products provide the performance and reliability of disk while preserving the removability and archival benefits of tape. More than 35,000 RDX units have been installed to date. ProStor has introduced InfiniVault, the world's first removable disk archive system. Targeted at small and midsized enterprises with limited budgets, InfiniVault provides low-cost, long-term data preservation in an intelligent regulatory-compliant appliance based on RDX technology. ProStor Systems was just selected by Byte and Switch as a Top Ten Storage Startup to Watch.

For more information about ProStor Systems, visit http://www.prostorsystems.com or contact the company at [e-mail] or 303-565-3100. Visit http://www.RDXstorage.com to learn more about RDX removable disk technology.

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