agami Systems Challenges NAS Market Leaders with Release 2 Enterprise Class Features.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- agami R2.0 provides Industry leading Cost of Ownership for Enterprise-class storage High-Availability, Disaster Recovery, & Best-in-Class Performance

agami Systems Inc., an industry leader in high performance, scalable, and cost-effective enterprise NAS solutions, announced today a new major release of its leading software platform, agamiOS R2.0. With the agamiOS R2.0's significant enhancements, it extends the deployment of the agami Information Server's (AIS) line of NAS solutions into mission critical storage environments for High-Availability and Disaster Recovery. Release 2.0 will be generally available to customers in the second quarter of 2006.

With the agamiOS Release 2.0, agami introduces its new automated High Availability feature, agamiHA, to enable fully redundant and fault-tolerant storage solutions with high availability access to data. agamiHA allows customers to deploy dual redundant AIS systems - providing automatic fast file system failover to a secondary system through integrated heartbeat monitoring & IP takeover, resulting in very high levels (five 9's) of data availability. Through agamiHA, future software releases will also support rolling online upgrades for near-continuous availability.

"agami Information Servers are providing enterprise-class data availability at 1/10 the cost of competitor's high-end systems," said David Rodgers, agami's Vice President of Engineering. "By leveraging agamiFSR's file system replication technology, we are able to provide the most comprehensive redundant storage solution at the lowest possible cost of ownership for a broad audience of customers."

In Release 2.0, the enhanced agamiFSR enables support for extended Disaster Recovery deployments on Wide Area Networks (WANs). Through extended file system transaction logging and the advanced file system resynchronization capability, agamiFSR can tolerate and recover efficiently from extended network outages during replication while keeping the primary system online. This allows customers to deploy agamiFSR solutions in a wider range of network environments, including less reliable networks and WAN environments. As in prior releases, agamiFSR provides "live" file system replication with online access to replicated file systems during replication operations.

"Customers are demanding cost effective solutions for disaster protection," said Paul Speciale, agami's Vice President Product Management. "With our enhanced file system replication, agami provides customers at all levels with a world-class solution for wide area data replication at a very affordable price point."

Release 2.0 also provides enhancements to file system Snapshots - including an integrated Snapshot Scheduling. This capability allows administrators to easily set up monthly, weekly, daily, and hourly snapshots through agami's GUI interface (SaVI) and CLI. In addition, R2.0 enables Snapshot Rollback allowing administrators to revert an entire file system to a previous point-in-time as captured in an earlier snapshot.

Network connectivity options are increased with the addition of IEEE 802.3ad/LACP Link Aggregation/trunking support by providing a standard based option for network port bonding for users who have 802.3ad/LACP enabled network switches. This feature provides benefits including managing fewer IP addresses, network port failover, as well as significant scalability improvements in port bonding: thus, enabling agami's industry-leading throughput to be utilized more simply.

About agami Systems, Inc.

agami Systems is a leading provider of next-generation network attached storage (NAS) systems that dramatically reduce customers' total cost of ownership (TCO). The company's AIS 3000 and AIS 6000 series of Information Servers deliver unparalleled functionality, breakthrough performance, and a simple, intuitive user interface - at significantly low price points. agami is based in Sunnyvale, California and is backed by the financial strength of top venture capital companies, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, New Enterprise Associates, Alta Partners, Duff Ackerman & Goodrich, Advanced Equity Investments, and Apex Venture Partners. For more information about agami and its products, please visit the company's website at www.agami.com.