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DataCore Customer, Daytona Beach Community College, Wins Storage Innovator Award

Storage Network Leverages DataCore's SANsymphony Software for Substantial ROI and High Performance

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Oct. 2, 2001) — Daytona Beach Community College (DBCC) earned TechTarget's 1st annual Storage Innovator Awards in storage management for its use of DataCore™ SANsymphony™ software to consolidate management over a multiple-vendor storage environment into a virtual network storage pool. The award, the only one given in the storage management category, recognized DBCC for its innovative storage area network using SANsymphony.

"We're thrilled with this recognition of our storage management strategy as innovative and exceptional," said Mike Burke, DBCC's director of IS and networking. "Like many enterprises, we needed a new, flexible and reliable way to meet our storage needs today - and five years from now. It needed to be able to tie the various elements of storage networking into a cohesive, manageable resource that could pay for itself in terms of time saved and costs avoided. We found it in DataCore's SANsymphony virtualization and storage control software."

DBCC faced a growing management dilemma posed by the patchwork of storage hardware it had added incrementally to meet expanding storage demands. As the amount of storage capacity swelled, Burke knew he had to change strategies. Working with NaviStor.com, a Massachusetts-based solutions integrator, Burke set out to build a distributed storage repository that could be easily and non-disruptively managed from a central console. Burke's team chose a storage area network powered by DataCore's SANsymphony software to centralizecontrol of all of DBCC's disparate storage devices so they can be managed as a single, manageable resource pool and support any application server. SANsymphony's advanced virtualization software gives DBCC unprecedented flexibility for growth, high performance and most importantly, it yields maximum ROI on the college's existing - and future - storage investments.

"The IT team at DBCC proved that you can integrate proprietary, legacy storage hardware into a modern storage network, balancing the leading edge with the highly practical, to deliver a high-value solution," said Paul Gillin, editor-in-chief, SearchStorage.com. "DBCC's solution sets the standard for excellence in the use of storage technology today." SANsymphony improves overall capacity utilization and eliminates costly application disruptions due to storage management tasks, while offering customers affordable remote mirroring alternatives for disaster recovery.

About SearchStorage.com
SearchStorage.com, a TechTarget Website, is the number-one media outlet for storage professionals, providing more than 94,000 storage decision-makers with original storage-focused editorial content, interactive features, expert storage advice, and up-to-date storage news, information, and resources from across the Web. SearchStorage.com also features eight e-newsletters, delivering the latest strategic and tactical information to help members make better decisions about their storage implementations. For more information on SearchStorage.com, please visit www.searchstorage.com.

About DataCore
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, call (877) 780-5111 or 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.

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