ONSTOR IMPROVES ONLINE EXPERIENCE FOR NXTBOOK MEDIA CUSTOMERS; NXTBOOK CHOOSES PANTERA CLUSTERED NAS FOR SCALABILITY, STABILITY, AND COST-EFFECTIVENESS

Leading Clustered NAS Vendor Finds Sweet Spot in Digital Content Market

CAMPBELL, Calif. - March 23, 2007 - ONStor Inc., the leading provider of scalable clustered NAS solutions for the enterprise, today announced that NXTbook Media, a digital publisher and sister company to reprint marketing and production firm Reprint Management Services (RMS), has centralized its storage environment on ONStor Pantera� Clustered NAS. With its advanced file storage solutions that allow businesses to flexibly and cost-effectively grow their storage in real time, ONStor is finding significant traction in the digital imaging market.

"We have seen an astounding increase in the amount of video streamed from digital editions - we're now streaming in a week the amount of video that we did in the entire year of 2005. The storage needed to host our assets, such as magazines, images, and videos in digital book format, just keeps exploding," said Nathan Powell, IT director, NXTbook Media. "Our existing direct attached storage (DAS) infrastructure just didn't cut it. Scaling the DAS environment to accommodate the rapid growth in our business was just too cumbersome and expensive," he added.

NXTbook Media helps clients market and broadcast print materials in easy-to-read electronic editions over the Internet. In switching to the ONStor solution, the company was able to consolidate 20 servers connected to DAS onto 12 terabytes of ONStor Pantera Clustered NAS. By leveraging Pantera's scalable clustering, automated storage provisioning, and integrated file server virtualization, NXTbook can deliver a superior online experience to its customers. Beyond reliability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness, NXTbook Media cited Pantera's native ability to work with Linux and ONStor's helpful customer service as further reasons for their choice.

"We weighed our options - NAS, custom Linux LVM, and even keeping the DAS. The ONStor Pantera system delivered exactly what we wanted - a solution that is very reliable, flexible enough to accommodate our changing needs, and cost-effective. We no longer have to worry about our customers' online experience being interrupted. Our administrators can simply move virtual file servers around in the centralized console in real time when making changes," emphasized Lon Farenwald, IT director for RMS.

In addition to storing customers' digital content files, NXTbook Media is using the ONStor NAS for internal corporate file sharing. The company has installed a Pantera P2240 at its primary business site and another at a co-location facility, to provide redundancy and business continuity.

"An important shift is occurring in storage from a database transaction-oriented landscape to uploads and downloads of file content," said Tony Asaro, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "ONStor is a next-generation NAS system that supports this game-changing shift. The ONStor Pantera is a high-performance, cost-effective storage system that can scale from modest to massive based on the end user's requirements. The NXTbook case study is a great example of ONStor's versatility in supporting both outbound online content and inbound corporate applications."

"It's both rewarding and a validation of our scalable clustered NAS technology to be able to make such a demonstrable difference in the manageability of NXTbook Media's storage infrastructure," said Narayan Venkat, VP Marketing, ONStor. "We have scores of happy customers using Pantera in high-volume data environments, such as digital publishing, to solve their capacity and performance management challenges. Our consistent field-proven results support Pantera being named Storage magazine's Product of the Year Award in the disk and disk subsystem category."

About ONStor
ONStor drives down the cost of storage management by delivering scalable clustered NAS that saves enterprises 50 percent on total cost of ownership with systems that let customers start small and scale massively as their requirements grow. ONStor's award-winning Pantera Clustered NAS Systems and Bobcat NAS Gateways consolidate information from multiple Windows, UNIX and Linux devices into a single, highly scalable file storage environment. The open storage architecture allows existing assets to be leveraged, while integrated file server virtualization enables resources to be redeployed quickly to accommodate changing needs. 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).

About NXTbook Media
NXTbook Media optimizes print publications for use on the Web. NXTbook Media's digital publishing application helps clients market and broadcast print materials in easy-to-read electronic editions over the Internet using only a standard Web browser. Customers including Advanstar Communications, Hewlett-Packard, Reed Business Information, Prism Business Media, Cisco, Valpak, CMP, Thomas Publishing, VNU Media, Hanley-Wood, Kia, Vance Publishing, and Ziff Davis choose NXTbook Media to expand the reach and effectiveness of their print materials. Named one of the "100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry" for two consecutive years by EContent Magazine, NXTbook Media is privately held and headquartered in Lancaster, Pa. For more information, go to www.nxtbookmedia.com or email info@nxtbookmedia.com.

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