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German City Council Implements DataCore's SANsymphony

SANsymphony Drives Heidelberg's SAN to Provide Non-Hardware-Specific, Failsafe, Storage Solutions

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Sept. 21, 2001) — DataCore™ Software, the leading supplier of storage networking and virtualization software, today announced that its SANsymphony has been implemented as part of the cutting-edge storage solution for the city of Heidelberg, Germany.

DataCore's reseller partner in Germany, CEMA AG, specialists in IT, ASP and network solutions, has implemented a Storage Area Network (SAN) for the City Council and is using DataCore's virtualization technology, which facilitates central storage management and high availability for the SAN.

"By deciding on installing a SAN together with the installation of an additional data center, we are investing in an infrastructure to meet the demands for growing quantities of data and increased security requirements in the municipal administration," commented Manfred Leutz of Heidelberg City Council. "As our heterogeneous IT architecture has different operating systems and platforms, SANsymphony is without doubt the ideal solution to give us central management functionality, high availability, synchronous mirroring between the data centers, secure back-up and rapid recovery in the event of downtime."

The city of Heidelberg has 140,000 inhabitants with two computing centers hosting servers running Novell, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Linux operating systems. As a comprehensive storage management solution, SANsymphony allows the flexible allocation of virtual storage capacities, regardless of storage vendor or server platform. The software offers extensive redundancy and high availability functions, which are important for the city's constantly growing data demands.

"Our customers are increasingly focusing on open solutions, which can not only cope with present IT challenges but also guarantee a secure, effective and scalable storage architecture for the future," said Tobias Wellhausen, vice president of sales at CEMA AG. "Therefore we are pleased that, with DataCore as a partner, we can offer a comprehensive virtualization and management platform - completely independent of hardware - for SANs. SANsymphony also adds significant value to Heidelberg's SAN."

Heidelberg City Council uses two storage domain servers for the SANsymphony software delivering optimal redundancy. 'Powered by DataCore' solutions support rapid disaster recovery as well as server- and LAN-free back-up through numerous functions including snapshots, failover, mirroring, alternate pathing or asynchronous data replication via LAN and WAN networks.

"SANsymphony is a highly scalable and extremely flexible virtualization solution that is used in large- and medium-sized businesses, in industry and in administration," said Manfred Gramlich, regional sales director for DataCore in Germany. "With our partner CEMA, we have been able to offer the City of Heidelberg a solution that simplifies storage administration, reduces operating costs and also guarantees economic advantages in the future."

About CEMA AG
CEMA AG is a specialist in IT and network solutions as well as ASP and is based in Mannheim, Frankfurt a. M. and Berlin. Since it was founded in 1990 it has been working in consultation, conception and implementation and in the operation of IT projects and services, with the emphasis on innovation, practice orientation and economic viability. Since 2000 CEMA AG has been operating its own ASP center in an external Internet computing center. The central target groups are software manufacturers and businesses which make software available for users. The CEMA service and support concept extends from a 24x7 help desk and individual training to complete IT outsourcing. As a partner with numerous certifications and authorizations from the most important manufacturers, CEMA has direct access to support and specialist knowledge.

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. The company is a voting member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and an active member of the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA). 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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