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Leading Hospitals Find DataCore's SANsymphony™ Heals What Ails Them

Comprehensive Storage Management Software Addresses Critical Healthcare IT Needs

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (June 9, 2003) — DataCore Software's proven storage management solutions have gained acceptance by the highly demanding healthcare sector, where doctors, nurses and lab technicians require round-the-clock access to life-critical data. With its award-winning SANsymphony™ software, DataCore helps leading hospitals and healthcare organizations meet several daunting data storage challenges: 24x7 demand/zero downtime, regulation compliance, cost-effective business continuity and disaster recovery planning, massive modernization and growth of multi-vendor IT environments with rapid return on investment.

While nearly every industry is dealing with exponential data growth and shrinking IT resources, few face the number or magnitude of storage problems confronting the healthcare sector. As hospitals move from paper-based records and film to digital media, IT departments face a monumental challenge: building a reliable storage practice that meets the 24x7 availability demand and can scale as needs increase -- without draining IT staff and budgets. In addition, recent regulatory issues, like HIPAA compliance, have forced many IT departments to focus on more extensive data backup and recovery strategies.

In February 2003, Rick Copple, CTO of Community Health Network, helped his organization reach a major milestone in the advancement of technology and modern healthcare with the opening of the Indiana Heart Hospital, the nation's first all digital, paperless, film-less hospital. An innovative storage strategy and implementation -- powered by DataCore's SANsymphony -- was critical to the project's success.

"By allowing us to group our resources into a single pool of data, SANsymphony has measurably eased the management and administrative burden -- both in time and dedicated resources," said Copple. "In addition, the software has delivered a three-fold boost in performance and given us the tools needed to implement a cost-effective disaster recovery plan, ensuring the availability of critical data in the event of catastrophic circumstances."

DataCore counts many other leading hospitals and healthcare organizations, recognized for both technical and medical achievements, among its customers, including Amerigroup Corporation of Virginia Beach, VA, Carilion Health Systems, of Roanoke, Virginia, Maimonides Medical Center of Brooklyn, New York, Mercy Hospital of Miami, Florida, Hunterdon Healthcare Systems of Hunterdon, NJ, Gelre Hospital of the Netherlands, and Oxford University Clinical School of the United Kingdom.

In these environments, Powered by DataCore™ storage solutions support critical Electronic Medical Record (EMR) storage and retrieval, medical imaging systems, Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS), and administrative applications from AGFA, GE Medical Systems, Lawson, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems Inc., Siemens Medical Solutions, StorComm, PeopleSoft and others.

"The value placed on data and the critical implications of its availability are greater in healthcare than in any other industry," said Ken Horner, vice president of marketing for DataCore Software. "SANsymphony gives hospitals and other healthcare organizations the tools they need to ensure the protection and availability of this information, while freeing valuable resources and budget for other vital IT projects."

About DataCore Software
DataCore Software Corporation's award-winning software automates and consolidates storage management for enterprise customers worldwide, significantly reducing their costs and increasing the return on investment from information technology assets. The company's SANsymphony™ software sets the standard for open storage networking platforms, supporting all major brands of disk arrays and operating systems. It is available and supported through major OEMs, system integrators and resellers. DataCore is privately held with corporate headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For international office locations and more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit www.datacore.com.

DataCore, the DataCore logo, Powered by DataCore, ROI Street Smarts, SANsymphony, SANcentral, SANcollege and SANvantage are trademarks or registered 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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