Award Recognizes Most Innovative Storage Product Exhibited at the Largest IT
Trade Show for Government Purchasers
BOULDER, Colo., Booth #1717, FOSE 2003, April 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Exabyte Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: EXBT), a performance and value leader
in tape backup systems, announced today that its Magnum20 LTO tape library has
been awarded the Best New Technology Award for storage products at FOSE 2003,
the premiere showcase for new IT products for federal, state and local
government agencies. Magnum20 was selected as the winner by a double-blind
panel of esteemed judges from Government Computer News and sister publication
Washington Technology, who evaluated hundreds of new products and selected
winners based on innovation, features, relevance to the government market and
value. The Magnum20 LTO library was the winner in the highly competitive
storage devices category and was chosen over Quantum/ATL automation.
"The FOSE Best New Technology Award is the most prestigious honor for
products designed to meet the needs of government IT professionals, and
Exabyte is truly thrilled to have the Magnum20 recognized by the judges as the
best new storage product of the year," said Kelly Beavers, vice president of
marketing at Exabyte. "The Magnum20 is a powerful next-generation tape
library that Exabyte designed with the specific storage needs of government
customers in mind. Magnum20 has the capacity, performance, scalability and
price that make it an ideal fit for the backup needs of government IT
professionals, and this award is a tremendous validation that we have
succeeded in designing a truly exceptional storage solution."
Exabyte's Magnum20 LTO library, configured with up to eight LTO Ultrium
tape drives, offers the ultimate in scalability, providing immediate access to
all of its 150 cartridge slots for the price of a typical 30-40 slot library.
Occupying just 20u of rack space, Magnum20 offers the highest-density midrange
LTO automation solution on the market, conserving valuable data center space.
When outfitted with LTO-1 tape drives, Magnum20 provides capacity of up to
30TB* (compressed) and data transfer speed up to 864 GB/hr* (compressed).
Configured with LTO-2 tape drives, Magnum20 provides up to 60TB* (compressed)
of capacity and data transfer speed of more than 1TB/hr* (compressed).
Features such as a native Fibre Channel interface allow users to utilize
Magnum20 in the most flexible, cost-effective manner across a variety of
applications. Magnum20's four-way partitioning feature allows users to
operate the Magnum20 as up to four separate virtual libraries. The
partitioning features allow users to run a mixture of SCSI and/or native Fibre
Channel interfaces to multiple servers running Intel and/or Unix
platforms -- all from the same automation device. Additionally, this feature
allows users to utilize a mixture of LTO-1 and LTO-2 tape drives in the same
physical unit, making Magnum20 ideally suited for users starting to integrate
LTO-2 drives into their automated backup scheme.
End users in the private sector and in international government
installations have already chosen the Magnum20 over other LTO library
alternatives, recognizing that Magnum20 offers a 60 percent savings over other
LTO automation solutions and provides the best price, performance and feature
set available on the market today.
For more information about the Exabyte Magnum20, visit
http://www.exabyte.com/products .
About Exabyte Corporation
Exabyte Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: EXBT) provides innovative tape
storage solutions to customers whose top buying criteria is value -- maximum
performance, quality and ease-of-use at a price they can afford. Exabyte is
the recognized value-leader in tape storage and automation solutions for
workstations, midrange servers and enterprise storage networks, and has been
an industry innovator since 1987. Exabyte's high-performance Mammoth-2
(M2(TM)) tape drives for the mid-range market have a strong performance-price
ratio, Exabyte's VXA-2 tape drive technology provides DDS users with
significantly higher capacity and performance at a similar price point, and
Exabyte's storage automation products are rugged, reliable automation
solutions for users of VXAtape, MammothTape(TM) and LTO(TM) (Ultrium(TM)).
Exabyte has a worldwide network of OEMs, distributors and resellers that share
Exabyte's commitment to value and customer service, including partners such as
IBM, Compaq, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Bull, Toshiba, Apple Computer, Tech
Data, Digital Storage Inc., Ingram Micro and Arrow Electronics.
For additional information, call 1-800-EXABYTE or visit http://www.exabyte.com .
For investor relations inquiries, e-mail investor@exabyte.com .
*Data capacities and transfer rates assume a compression ratio of
two-to-one. Actual compression will vary depending on the nature of the data
and the drive and media quality.
Exabyte, VXA and M2 are registered trademarks, and, MammothTape is a
trademark of Exabyte Corp. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks,
and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.
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Related links:
http://www.exabyte.com
CONTACT:
investors, Kelly Beavers, VP of Marketing of
Exabyte Corporation, +1-303-417-7225, kjb@exabyte.com
NOTE TO EDITORS: See the Magnum20 LTO Tape Library at Booth #
1717 at FOSE 2003.
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