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Degussa Puts DataCore SANsymphony™ to Work at Chemical Plant

High Availability and Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery Key to Selection

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (July 14, 2003) — DataCore Software, a leading provider of enterprise-class, open storage networking software, today announced that Degussa AG, a Dќsseldorf, Germany supplier of specialty chemicals, has implemented a storage area network (SAN) at its Wesseling plant based on the SANsymphony™ storage management platform. Degussa worked together with DataCore integrator Schelle GmbH in carrying out the project.

SANsymphony uses state-of-the-art technology to provide centralized and automated storage management, guaranteeing high application availability and performance, while optimizing existing storage resources. By delivering additional capacity dynamically when required, the storage network can be expanded as needed independently from storage vendor or server platform.

"We needed a cost-effective, platform-independent storage solution that would also provide high-availability and disaster recovery," says Willi Lіvenich, IT manager at Degussa's Wesseling plant. "After consulting intensively with Schelle, we selected SANsymphony as a storage management solution that offered all the advantages we needed."

The computer center at the Degussa Wesseling location has two 'Powered by DataCore™' storage domain servers (SDS) that control the allocation of storage for an environment with clustered application servers running Windows 2000. Additional servers will be integrated successively. The two storage domain servers, which form a virtualization platform for SANsymphony software, ensure optimum redundancy, thereby increasing security and flexibility for backup and restore processes. State-of-the-art backup functions such as snapshot and mirroring support fast disaster recovery. SANsymphony's Network Managed Volumes (NMVs) feature automatically allocates storage capacity from the SAN when it is needed and optimizes resource utilization, making it possible to assign distinct qualities of service to different storage domains.

"More and more customers rely on open storage solutions that not only overcome current problems, but also have a secure, effective and scalable architecture for future requirements, thereby saving money over the long term," says Uwe Kramer of Schelle GmbH. "By working together so successfully with DataCore Software, we can offer our customers a storage management package that enables them to expand their systems as needed, lowers the total cost of operation (TCO) and guarantees a higher return on investment (ROI)."

Degussa
Degussa is a multinational corporation that consistently focuses on high-yield specialty chemicals. Generating €11.8 billion in sales and employing around 48,000 people, Degussa is the third largest Germany chemical company and the world's leading supplier in the specialty chemicals segment. In 2002, the Group's earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) exceeded €900 million. Degussa's strengths lie in high-efficiency custom system solutions for customers in over 100 countries worldwide. Degussa pursues a strategy that is expressed in the following motto: "Everyone uses Degussa products -- every day, everywhere."

Schelle GmbH
Founded in 1992, Cologne-based Schelle GmbH system vendor provides comprehensive IT expertise mainly to small and medium-sized companies. Its customers operate in a wide range of fields, from industry and trade to insurance, public agencies and service providers. Thanks to its many years of experience, Schelle demonstrates the importance of 'single-source expertise' in diverse environments, especially in the areas of storage area networks, server-based computing and network technologies. IT concepts, professional consulting and timely implementation through extensive project experience give the company a highly practical orientation and allow it to optimize costs. Schelle's recipe for success for over a decade has been a commitment to effective partnership with its customers.

About DataCore Software
DataCore Software is an independent software vendor specializing in consolidating, controlling and automating storage for Windows, UNIX, Linux, MacOS and NetWare systems. The company's award-winning SANsymphony software uses Wintel storage servers to pool, cache, and replicate data from all the major disk and disk array suppliers. Its innovative technology centralizes storage management for Global 2000 enterprise data centers and powers OEM storage subsystems with advanced features, non-stop availability and unmatched performance. 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.

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