Exanet Takes Lead Position as Most Recognized New NAS Vendor

Peripheral Concepts, Inc., a leading storage market analysis firm, has completed an extensive end user survey on NAS and NAS virtualization vendors. Based on the survey, Peripheral Concepts has concluded that Exanet is the industry's most recognized new NAS vendor. To the question "Which of these companies are familiar to you?" Exanet placed at the top of the list. Exanet will be exhibiting at SNW Fall 2005 in Orlando, FL, October 24-26th (Booth #C8). "Performance is ranked as the highest selection criteria for NAS products, while scalability is at the top of the features required for a NAS virtualization product," said Farid Neema, President and Lead Analyst of Peripheral Concepts, Inc. "Excellent performance results and exceptional scalability helped Exanet become the most recognized new NAS vendor in our user survey." The comprehensive survey covered IT managers at more than two thousand data centers, with a combined installed storage infrastructure of 4,690 NAS systems including 679 petabytes of disk storage. Included in the survey were a wide range of topics including: storage configuration, storage virtualization requirements, and vendor preferences. Exanet's award winning ExaStore 2.0 is quickly becoming a leading storage solution due to its industry leading performance, automated management features, always-on access to data and choice of off-the-shelf industry standard hardware. Users who implement ExaStore see an increase in efficiency and a substantial reduction in storage management costs - leading to an unbeatably low Total Cost of Ownership. ExaStore 2.0 is deployed in diverse markets globally and continues to provide the highest rate of efficiency in the storage market. "We are delighted to be positioned as the most recognized new vendor in the NAS space," said Per Sjofors, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Exanet. "Our customers are extremely satisfied with the performance of our product. Because of ExaStore's unique feature-set, word is traveling fast. We are seeing a substantially increased interest in our product, which has resulted in customer traction and acquisition all over the globe."