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Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Selects DataCore SANsymphony™

DataCore SANsymphony offers Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Ltd:

A dynamic and flexible storage environment

Added functionality, flexibility and ROI, essential for modern storage environments

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (September 7, 2001) — DataCore™ Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization and network control software today announced that Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Ltd (Fujitsu) has joined its progressive European customer base. Fujitsu is a leading supplier of high performance telecommunications solutions and a prime mover in the creation of Broadband Britain, specializing in the research and development, design and manufacture of fixed access telecommunications products and services. SANsymphony was selected to provide a more dynamic and flexible storage environment for its growing heterogeneous servers.

SANsymphony matched Fujitsu's selection criteria, by providing a solution with the ability to mirror data across sites, improve application I/O throughput performance and implement centralized storage management. In addition, SANsymphony offered Fujitsu the ability to integrate existing legacy storage devices into the proposed configuration achieving maximum ROI for these arrays.

Ian Batten, IT Director, Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Ltd, commented, "SANsymphony is a good match to our requirement - it makes dynamic sharing of RAID arrays trivial, performance is enhanced and administration is easy. We have a scalable way forward, which has more than enough performance for our purposes and appears feature rich. Storage virtualization is a secure framework for growth. We also find that the commodity server hardware and disk prices are acceptable, switch prices are reasonable and HBA prices are falling. These figures combine to make SANsymphony much cheaper than a monolithic solution, and strongly influenced our selection."

Deployment of SANsymphony has afforded Fujitsu a number of benefits including an easy to use centralized management platform for storage allocation. Further advantages include a high performance storage environment capable of integrating existing and future storage devices non-disruptively and a cost effective means of creating a scalable and highly available platform on which to base future storage growth.

"As with so many other large organisations, Fujitsu required a solution for its rapidly growing storage requirements. The company's previous environment, a combination of NAS (Network Attached Storage) and Direct Attached Storage offered limited scalability, complex back up and limited high availability of direct attached storage," commented Ken Horner, vice president of marketing at DataCore. "Following a successful evaluation period SANsymphony has gone live with dramatic improvements in performance, administration and cost. This is another example of how SANsymphony can help organisations evolve from restrictive, expensive solutions to a virtual environment which offers excellent ROI, flexibility and hardware component choice."

Fujitsu's commissioning of SANsymphony's storage virtualization solution has led to further plans for expanding the solution to other applications. The areas under assessment include implementation of backups based on SANsymphony Snapshot, automation of alternate path failover for application servers based on DataCore's Solaris solution, inter storage domain server mirroring and diversifying the RAID environment to establish interoperability.

About Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Ltd.
Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Limited - a strategic division of the Telecommunications Group, Fujitsu Limited, Japan - is the largest supplier of Broadband Access equipment in the United Kingdom, the worldwide design location for access network solutions and a centre of excellence for the development of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology. Currently employing over 1,200 staff around Europe, Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe is focused on providing strategic end-to-end solutions, with a complete turnkey service - from project planning, community liaison, cable laying and civil engineering, to installation, implementation and ongoing maintenance. For more information, please visit www.ftel.co.uk.

About DataCore Software
DataCore™ Software Corporation is the leader in storage virtualization and networking software. The Company's award-winning SANsymphony™ storage control software dramatically improves ROI and storage utilization by converting 'islands' of disparate storage into networked storage pools, enabling the easy allocation of storage capacity. DataCore distributes its software products through the SANvantage Partner Program including its authorized and technical channel and major OEM partners worldwide. Founded in 1998 by some of the industry's most respected storage technologists, DataCore is privately-held with headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and other US offices located in NY, CA, IL, and NC with international sales and service operations located in London, Paris, Munich, Tokyo, and Sydney. For more information, visit www.datacore.com.

DataCore, the DataCore Logo, and SANsymphony are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. Other DataCore product or service names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation.

All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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