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ONStor Pantera Named Among Top 10 Exciting Storage Products in Use at Fortune 1000 Companies

New Study from TheInfoPro identifies Pantera as one of the industry�s most exciting products as named by end-users

CAMPBELL, CA – November 27, 2006 - ONStor announced today that the ONStor Pantera Clustered NAS system was named by Fortune 1000 IT managers as one of the industry’s most exciting products in use in the TheInfoPro’s Wave 8 Storage Study, Fall 2006. Introduced in August of 2006, Pantera has shaken up the NAS market, undercutting competitive pricing by 50%, while delivering the performance, scalability and flexibility previously found only in the highest-cost solutions.

Pantera answers user demand for innovative NAS solutions that deliver file virtualization capability. According to TheInfoPro’s Wave 8 Storage Study, purchases of NAS of capacity, which grew 59% in the last year at Fortune 1000 companies, have led to a surge in file virtualization, which tops TheInfoPro’s Storage Management Technology Heat Index ™ measuring users' reported spending and implementation plans. ONStor Pantera includes both integrated server and storage virtualization, delivering single-pool storage management regardless of the capacity required. Virtualized resources enable non-disruptive growth, free of costly data migration and user disruption.

“The findings in our Wave 8 Storage Study indicate that NAS deployments have been accelerating as installed capacity in the Fortune 1000 has grown from 44TB in Wave 4 (Fall 2004) to 224TB in Wave 8,” said Rob Stevenson, managing director for Storage at TheInfoPro. “In conjunction with this growth, file virtualization has become a top priority, supplanting ILM, as storage professionals look to decouple the relationship between the filer and the host in order to manage each independently, using file virtualization on the storage side to manage growth transparently and server virtualization on the host to increase application agility.”

TheInfoPro’s findings are derived from 153 hour-long interviews, conducted between July 2006 and September 2006, with TheInfoPro’s TIPNetwork of the world’s largest buyers and users of IT from Fortune 1000 enterprises. Users named Pantera one of the top 10 most exciting products in the industry when asked the question, “ What emerging or exciting vendor product do you have in use?”

“The latest report from TheInfoPro clearly indicates the importance Fortune 1000 companies are placing on NAS solutions and file virtualization to handle the rapid growth in file storage,” said Jon Toor, VP marketing of ONStor. “Cognizant of these needs, we strive to deliver affordable NAS solutions that provide the utmost in performance, scalability and flexibility as demonstrated in our recently announced Pantera systems. We are thrilled that users are excited about the product and we promise them there is more to come.”

By integrating advanced features such as server virtualization and n-way clustering, ONStor Pantera allows customers to start with a complete configuration priced below $40,000, and then independently grow both performance and capacity simply by adding either filer nodes or disk. Expansion is simple, fast, and completely non-disruptive. Pantera provides the capability to consolidate data from thousands of servers, and tens of thousands of users to a single, easy-to-manage storage environment.

About TheInfoPro
TheInfoPro (TIP) is a leading independent research network and supplier of market intelligence for the Information Technology (IT) industry. TheInfoPro, the “voice of the customer,” helps IT professionals, technology providers, and the financial community, make sound decisions on technology, business strategies and investments. Through the TIPNetwork of over 900 of the world’s largest buyers and users of IT including Citigroup, FedEx, McGraw-Hill, MasterCard, Pfizer, Vodafone, PepsiCo, JPMorgan Chase, and Harvard University, TheInfoPro delivers real-time expertise and analysis on technology, industry opportunities and trends. Since 2001, TheInfoPro has been helping clients exceed their business potential. For more information visit: www.theinfopro.net or call us at 1-212-672-0010.

About ONStor
ONStor drives down the cost of storage management by delivering enterprise-class file storage systems at affordable prices. ONStor's award winning Pantera Clustered NAS Systems and Bobcat NAS Gateways consolidate information from multiple Windows, UNIX and Linux devices to a single, highly scalable storage environment. Proven at hundreds of enterprise customer sites, ONStor delivers the cost effective approach to scalable storage. More information about ONStor can be found at www.ONStor.com or by calling toll-free 877-2ON-STOR (877-266-7867).

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