Rocksoft Unveils Patented Technology Toolkit To Eliminate Data Redundancy.

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Growing enterprise need for reduced data duplication drives demand for new release of the Blocklets(TM) Core Technology Portfolio Toolkit with performance enhancements

Rocksoft(R) Limited, a technology leader in data redundancy elimination and integrity assurance, today announced the release and availability of version 1.2b of the Blocklets Core Technology Portfolio (CTP) Toolkit for developers. The new product is making its debut today at Rocksoft Booth #237 at Storage World Conference 2005.

Blocklets is a powerful, patented technology that eliminates data redundancy within networking and storage architectures. Using Blocklets-powered platforms allows enterprises implementing ILM to maximize the efficiency of their data storage and transport. As a result, costs and overhead are reduced, even as performance increases - delivering a meaningful price/performance advantage that satisfies the demands of the ILM-focused enterprise.

As the owner and patent-holder for the only variable-length, sub-block parsing technology in the market today, Rocksoft continues to demonstrate the company's technology leadership in redundancy elimination with this latest release of its technology toolkit. Rocksoft is seeking development partners with a need for true next-generation content addressable storage (CAS) and redundant data elimination technologies.

What the industry is saying

"As capacity under management skyrockets, the only way to effectively manage mass quantities of data will be via de-duplication technologies. There is no point in storing the same information over and over again - it's simply a waste that causes all sorts of problems downstream. I love what Rocksoft is doing to address this growing issue," said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst of the Enterprise Strategy Group.

Release 1.2b of the Blocklets CTP Toolkit

The technology is only available through licensing of one or more components of the Blocklets CTP Toolkit, all of which are covered under patent protection and available for licensing together or individually.

Release 1.2b of the CTP Toolkit contains the Blocklets Store, a turnkey application based on the core technology and incorporating extensive performance enhancements. The release includes enhanced parsing algorithms and performance optimizations. This toolkit also contains an extended API allowing partners to integrate the technology into their own offerings.

Gaining advantage with Blocklets

Blocklets technology is licensed to storage, security and software vendors to empower them to manage their data storage and movement in a content-addressable format. Blocklets supports the elimination of redundant data at a far finer level of granularity than any other technology available today. With a patented technique, known as data streamlining(TM), Blocklets is able to store massive amounts of data using far less disk space and to move significantly smaller amounts of data across the storage network.

Blocklets is used to advance traditional storage infrastructures to the next level when incorporated into in content-addressable storage (CAS) systems, continuous data protection (CDP) solutions and other applications, including traditional storage systems, edge file management and wide-area files services, network backup operations, and service provisioning environments. Blocklets can

--reduce disk space utilization by over 90%

--decrease network bandwidth consumption

--increase overall systems performance

--improve data manageability by eliminating redundancy

Rocksoft COO/SVP Todd Viegut said, "Growing market awareness about redundancy elimination has increased demand for our highly-evolved solutions. Our acknowledged technology leadership is helping us gain increased traction for our differentiated data streamlining technology - an approach that sets us apart. As companies seek to manage data throughout their enterprises, they'll be looking to Blocklets-powered, ILM-ready solutions to support their data infrastructures."

At Storage World Conference 2005

The Core Technology Portfolio can be seen throughout the conference at Rocksoft Booth #237. Also at the Storage World Conference 2005 this week, Rocksoft founder and chief technical architect, Dr. Ross Williams, will be a featured participant on the Data Protection Summit moderated by Arun Taneja. The panel discussion (Breakout #12 - Track C) will take place at 4PM on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 in Room 104C at the Long Beach Convention Center.

About Rocksoft

Rocksoft delivers the data streamlining and integrity assurance technologies that power the information management infrastructure by eliminating data redundancy, reducing overhead and improving performance in data access and storage. Founded in 2000 in Adelaide, Australia, Rocksoft has North American offices in Dallas, Texas and San Jose, California. For more information, visit www.rocksoft.com.

About Blocklets

Rocksoft is a first mover in data streamlining - the next generation in data redundancy elimination. Rocksoft's patented Blocklets delivers technology that eliminates data redundancy, reduces overhead and improves performance in data access and transport. Addressing the need for both coalescence and continuous data protection, Rocksoft enables the transformation of today's data management software into Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions.

Copyright (C) 2005 Rocksoft Limited. All rights reserved. Rocksoft and Veracity are registered trademarks; and Blocklets and data streamlining are trademarks of Rocksoft Limited. All other brand and product names in this document may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.