Tandberg Data Extends LTO Tape Backup into Entry-Level Storage Market with Affordable, Low-Profile LTO Drive.

POWAY, Calif. -- Tandberg Data Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tandberg Data ASA (OSE:TAD), today announced general availability of the most affordable tape drive in the market, offering an attractive entry to the high-performance, high-capacity open standard LTO technology with a 5.25-inch half-height drive design for under $1,000. E[acute accent]Designed for network, workstation and desktop backup, the Tandberg 220LTO half-height tape drive meets the capacity, low cost of ownership and future growth requirements of small-to-medium businesses (SMB) customers. E[acute accent]At a street price of under $1,000, the 220LTO provides the enterprise-class features of LTO technology for 100GB (native capacity) applications of the SMB market. The drive features all the built-in reliability features inherent in other Tandberg Data low-profile drive designs. E[acute accent]"LTO Ultrium tape technology reached 77 percent market share over SDLT and SAIT in 2004 and over 350,000 LTO-based drives shipped in that same year (Gartner Inc., Tape Drive Market Shares, 2004, Fara Yale, May 17, 2005)," commented Fara Yale, Gartner Inc., research vice president. "Small- to medium-sized businesses today are faced with rapidly expanding data storage requirements, limited backup windows and modest budgets. Tape backup devices must address all three of these issues in order to be successful with this segment." E[acute accent]The cost-effective Tandberg 220LTO makes it easy for users to start with a technology that already offers three generations of growth from 100GB to 400GB. The complete LTO Ultrium roadmap defines six generations leading to 3.2TB so any business investing in today's product has the security of a future-focused technology. E[acute accent]Backing up 100GB (native capacity) at 16MB/s transfer rate (native), the 220LTO delivers the highest transfer rate in its capacity class. The highly reliable Tandberg 220LTO also features a unique airflow and single PCB with low power consumption to provide high reliability in media, drive and server performance due to operating environment. Embedded media management for intelligent diagnostics and Smart Gripper technology for tape loading assures users that media handling is optimized. E[acute accent]The low-cost design of the 220LTO features the best cost per gigabyte ratio of any tape drive in its class. And, with the low cost of LTO 1 media, users are assured of the lowest total cost of ownership of any tape drive/media combination within the first year of usage when using a typical grandfather-father-son backup scheme. E[acute accent]"For users who need to back up more than 40GB of data, enterprise-class LTO technology has been largely out of reach for the budget-constrained organization until now," commented Ken Cruden, Tandberg Data Corp. executive vice president and general manager. "The introduction of the feature-rich Tandberg 220LTO allows these customers to meet current data storage capacity requirements at an affordable entry cost with a secure roadmap that will meet escalating data growth rates." E[acute accent]The Tandberg 220LTO is available as a bare drive or as an internal or external kit which includes SCSI cable, terminator, tape cartridge, backup application software.

E[acute accent]About Tandberg Data Corp.

E[acute accent]Tandberg Data Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tandberg Data ASA, is the sales, service, marketing and product development organization for the Western Hemisphere. It markets the highly reliable line of Tandberg Data tape libraries, autoloaders, drives and media, using LTO(TM) and SLR(TM) technologies. The company also markets NAS solutions with the versatility of both disk and tape. E[acute accent]Leveraging its 25 years of manufacturing experience, Tandberg Data has established OEM agreements with major server manufacturers for both its SLR- and LTO-based solutions. Tandberg Data's solutions are designed to meet the growing storage requirements of small- and medium-sized organizations and are backed by a three-year warranty and advanced replacement programs. For more information, visit www.tandbergdatacorp.com.

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