SEPATON CTO Miklos Sandorfi Featured Panelist at StoragePlus 2006; Panel to Focus on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery; Sandorfi to Speak on Virtual Tape and Data Replication.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. -- SEPATON, Inc., the leader in high-performance data protection solutions, today announced that Miklos Sandorfi, chief technology officer (CTO), will be a featured panelist at StoragePlus 2006, taking place September 12 - 13 in Burlingame, CA at the Marriott San Francisco Airport Hotel. Sandorfi's panel entitled "Beyond Disaster Recovery" will be moderated by Mary Jander, site editor, Byte & Switch, and will take place on Wednesday, September 13 from 1:30 - 2:30 pm in Salon F.

When it comes to ensuring that corporate resources can survive environmental threats and downtime, storage managers aren't focused just on replicating, mirroring, and archiving anymore. Technologies such as CDP, WAN optimization, and virtual tape bring an added dimension of efficiency. As a result, IT pros aren't just replacing data within a reasonable amount of time after an outage. They also are making sure data can be rapidly retrieved on a day-to-day basis. The new techniques are also helping eliminate tape as a means of long-term archiving, and replacing older step-by-step storage processes with ILM infrastructure. This session explores the various "plusses" that storage requires to achieve this new level of restorability.

"Disaster recovery has become an even higher-priority in recent years with the flood of hurricanes and other disasters, along with publicized cases of data theft," said Sandorfi. "Now disaster recovery, ensuring that IT works uninterruptedly, is a key component of the continuity of operations plans that customers expect technology suppliers to help carry out. The ability to backup and restore data is a key pillar of any DR strategy and today there are new ways to achieve RPO and RTO while ensuring high-performance with technologies including virtual tape, data replication, and data de-duplication."

As SEPATON's CTO, Miklos Sandorfi is responsible for SEPATON's product vision and roadmap. He has an extensive background in the development of enterprise-class storage systems. He served for more than a decade at EMC Corporation, where he was responsible for many technological advances in several product categories including client/server, mainframe and Open Symmetrix. Sandorfi worked closely with industry leaders to help develop the Fibre Channel protocol in its infancy, and was instrumental in bringing Fibre Channel connectivity to EMC products. Most recently, he was responsible for the FICON (ESCON-over-Fibre Channel) architecture and implementation in Symmetrix. Sandorfi has 10 granted and 10 pending patents for inventions in the Fibre Channel and Disk Subsystem I/O technology space. Prior to EMC, he held positions at a leading nationwide computer rental and services company, where he developed corporate MIS infrastructure and software. He has a BS in Engineering from Northeastern University and completed an EMC-developed Executive Education Program in conjunction with Babson College.

For further information on StoragePlus 2006, please visit its Website at: http://www.lightreading.com/live/event_information.asp?survey_id=193

About SEPATON, Inc.

SEPATON is enabling companies of any size to comply with demanding data storage and retrieval requirements by changing the rules of data protection and leading the evolution to NO TAPES. We provide innovative, disk-based solutions that are intelligent, reliable and reduce storage, management and recovery costs. Because the proven SEPATON ContentAware(TM) architecture keeps track of all files and content, it enables faster and more efficient performance of a range of advanced data protection, data retention and data recovery functions. SEPATON's virtual tape library systems dramatically out-perform tape and other disk-based solutions. For additional information call 508-490-7900 or visit www.sepaton.com.

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