MYPHOTOALBUM.COM SELECTS ONSTOR NAS GATEWAY TO MANAGE ONLINE ARCHIVE OF 13 MILLION PHOTOS


LOS GATOS, CA – November 29, 2005 - ONStor Inc., the leader in Enterprise NAS Gateway solutions, today announced that MyPhotoAlbum (www.myphotoalbum.com) has chosen the Bobcat NAS Gateway as the cornerstone of its storage environment to support MyPhotoAlbum’s online photo sharing service.

MyPhotoAlbum currently hosts 13 million photos on 28 terabytes of Nexsan ATABeast RAID storage accessed via an ONStor Bobcat 2260 NAS gateway. With its storage requirements doubling every 120 days, MyPhotoAlbum needed a solution that was highly scalable and vendor-neutral so that NAS server performance and storage capacity could be scaled independently to keep pace with its rapidly changing storage demands.

According to Chris Ferry, director of operations and systems administration at MyPhotoAlbum, the decision to purchase ONStor was an easy one, based on the freedom to select vendor-independent storage and simplicity of storage administration. “T he majority of the storage vendors tied me down with their disk solutions which were severely overpriced,” said Ferry. “With ONStor's virtualization capabilities I'm free to switch disk vendors without having to migrate the data. We also enjoy the easy administration ONStor provides. We had the unit installed, configured and deployed in less than two weeks.”

“MyPhotoAlbum is typical of many enterprise customers with fast-growing storage environments who demand highly scalable solutions without the usual vendor lock-in that prevents them from achieving the lowest possible storage TCO,” said Jon Toor, vice president of marketing at ONStor. “ONStor is the only vendor with an open NAS gateway having the requisite performance, scalability and open storage support to meet enterprise data consolidation, data mirroring and content delivery demands.”

The MyPhotoAlbum deployment enables six Linux web servers to access 14 TB of storage via the ONStor Bobcat 2260 NAS gateway over NFS, supporting one million page views per day. The backend storage consists of two Nexsan ATABeast arrays with 14 TB of capacity each deployed in a mirrored configuration.

ONStor's Bobcat Series of easy-to-deploy and simple-to-manage NAS Gateways and industry standard storage arrays deliver scalable, shared storage to Windows, UNIX and Linux clients and servers. Because ONStor NAS Gateways are interoperable with the industry's broadest range of storage arrays, customers are free to choose the storage that best fits their business needs, eliminating vendor lock-in. ONStor's NAS Gateways consolidate enterprise-wide file services for Windows, UNIX and Linux clients and servers onto Fibre Channel attached, multi-vendor disk arrays. Taking the best of both worlds, ONStor NAS Gateways combine all the ease of deployment and simplicity of management of conventional NAS with the scalability and flexibility of SAN. Built on a 64-bit symmetric multiprocessing pipelined architecture that employs high-speed network processors more commonly found in network infrastructure products, ONStor delivers the industry’s highest performance open NAS gateways with three times the performance of NetApp products and enterprise-class scalability to 40 Petabytes of capacity and more than 10,000 users.

About MyPhotoAlbum
MyPhotoAlbum is a creation of FortuneCity.com Inc., a company founded in 1997 and headquartered in New York City. FortuneCity has grown to become one of the world's largest independent web service providers, hosting 10 million web sites that created the 11th most visited web property on the planet by early 2000.

About ONStor
ONStor is the leader in enterprise-class NAS Gateways that consolidate file services on multi-vendor storage. ONStor storage solutions dramatically reduce management costs by providing customers with the most easily scaled storage environment, and reduce capital costs by delivering the freedom and flexibility of the industry's most interoperable platform. ONStor products and technology are offered by leading system integrators and resellers worldwide. All products are backed by a host of support offerings and by ONStor's uncompromising commitment to customer service. More information about ONStor can be found at www.ONStor.com or by calling toll-free 877-2ON-STOR (877-266-7867).