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DataCore Shatters Price/Performance Record for Storage

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (August 13, 2003) — DataCore Software, a leading provider of enterprise-class, open storage networking software, today announced it has achieved record-setting results for the Storage Performance Council's SPC-1 Benchmark™ -- the only objective standard for storage performance comparisons. With this accomplishment DataCore bests all the major storage subsystem suppliers with the first affordable configuration to break the 50,000 SPC-1 IOPS™ barrier, and did so at an end user price below $310,000. To put this in perspective, competitive equipment required to approach these performance numbers generally runs well upwards of $1 million after heavy discounting.

In particular, three key SPC-1 benchmark metrics highlight DataCore's breakthroughs:

Price/performance: At $6.11 per SPC-1 IOPS, DataCore cuts in half the cost of the lowest priced mid-range storage subsystem and comes in at 1/3^rd to 1/5^th the cost of high-end proprietary arrays.
Performance: At 50,003.55 SPC-1 IOPS, DataCore's initial SPC submission establishes a new threshold for total I/O throughput with a modest three node configuration.
Disk utilization efficiency: DataCore needed just one third of the disk drives required by the previous SPC-1 IOPS record holder to obtain the faster results, indicative of how their storage control software fully optimizes the utilization of physical resources.

The figures are all the more astonishing when one considers the collection of inexpensive hardware DataCore pooled together to accomplish the feat. In this benchmark, DataCore SANsymphony™ software on a network of three off-the-shelf Intel servers running Windows Server 2003 handled the massive load, spreading it across a rack of low-cost industry standard Fibre Channel disk drives.

"To the end-user, superior price/performance translates into increased productivity and real economic value to the company," said Randy Kerns, senior partner at the Evaluator Group. "The numbers from DataCore are impressive and more importantly they now can be easily compared relative to other vendor submissions. The SPC-1 Benchmark gives the storage customer information to evaluate performance and costs for storage systems across products from multiple vendors. It allows companies like DataCore to have an independent source to showcase their throughput and price/performance capabilities side-by-side against other companies, no matter their size."

"Rather than rely on expensive exotics or purpose-built storage hardware to shatter the records, DataCore swept the SPC categories using standard commercial servers and disk drives; the type of equipment customers regularly employ to run their applications. SANsymphony software supplied the intelligence, control and redundancy to turn these server engines into the world's most powerful storage servers. The SPC results demonstrate DataCore's ability to harness the power and innovation of the latest Intel processors to propel high-performance storage networks," said DataCore marketing vice president, Ken Horner. "And SANsymphony just gets faster with every Intel and Microsoft advancement. Just imagine how far we can take this."

Ziya Aral, DataCore's chairman and CTO stated, "The part we're proudest of is the disk drive efficiency and the modest size of the configuration. It's a lot like being the frontrunner in the Monaco Grand Prix with a 100 mile per gallon family sedan."

The full results submitted by DataCore were:

SPC-1 Results SPC-1 Submission Identifier: A00015
Tested Storage Configuration (TSC) Name: DataCore SANsymphony Network Edition
Metric Reported	Results
SPC-1 IOPs	50,003.55
SPC-1 Price-Performance	$6.11/SPC-1 IOPS™
Total ASU Capacity	1,407GB
Data Protection Level	Mirroring
SPC-1 LRT	1.68 ms
Total TSC Price (including three-year maintenance)	$305,608

DataCore's SPC-1 Executive Summary Report may be downloaded from the Storage Performance Council Web site at: http://www.storageperformance.org/Results/SPC-1/DataCore_2003-08-11_SANsymphony/2003-08-08_DataCore_SANsymphony_ExecSumm.pdf. The Full Disclosure Report is also available from that site at: http://www.storageperformance.org/Results/SPC-1/DataCore_2003-08-11_SANsymphony/2003-08-08_DataCore_SANsymphony_FDR.pdf.

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.

DataCore, the DataCore logo, Powered by DataCore, ROI Street Smarts, SANsymphony, SANcentral, 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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