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Carilion Selects DataCore to Pool Storage Capacity for Disparate, Life-Critical Health Care Applications

Software-Based Approach Dramatically Improves Asset Utilization and Flexibility While Lowering Cost of Expansion

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (August 18, 2003) — DataCore Software, a leading provider of enterprise-class, open storage networking software, today announced that Carilion Health System of Roanoke, VA, has selected DataCore's SANsymphony™ software to help the century-old hospital network lower the storage management and acquisition costs arising from 60 percent annual data growth by significantly improving the utilization of existing IT assets.

"In service to our community, Carilion implements the best of modern technology, from digital radiology, to computer-based patient records, to Picture Archiving Communications Systems (PACS) in order to deliver best-in-class patient care," said Troy Board, Carilion's chief IT architect. "Now with the help of DataCore's SANsymphony, we'll have a storage management strategy that will ensure instantaneous, 24x7 access to critical data -- while freeing us from the over-allocation and capacity waste of hardware-based approaches."

Carilion's new storage management strategy of leveraging software at the heart of the network represents a major shift in its IT resource planning. Previously, health care applications from different vendors each were packaged with dedicated storage hardware, which led to poor disk utilization -- effectively, approximately 65 percent of the hospital network's overall disk capacity was wasted. SANsymphony will enable Carilion to fully utilize those existing resources by consolidating them into a storage pool from which the software automatically and economically provisions space to each application, as needed. The software accelerates I/O performance through network caching and consolidates different tiers of storage from multiple vendors, ensuring that doctors will be able to access life-critical patient information even faster than before.

An added bonus for the long-term strategy, SANsymphony will give Carilion the flexibility to choose from many competitive disk suppliers as it grows capacity non-disruptively -- a key to lowering the costs and complexity of expansion as they complete other initiatives such as launching a disaster recovery scheme and migrating to a new data center in the next year.

"Carilion Health System is a leader in implementing health care technology solutions for the benefit of their patients and physicians," said Ken Horner, vice president of marketing, DataCore Software. "The behind-the-scenes benefit of having an efficient, automated and consolidated storage practice that maximizes ROI on technology investments enables Carilion to focus budget and staff resources on further modernizing and improving the quality of the health care services they provide to the community."

About Carilion Health System
Founded in 1899 as the Roanoke Hospital Association, today Carilion Health System is a comprehensive integrated healthcare system comprised of 10 not-for-profit hospitals, including the only Level I Trauma Center for western Virginia, more than 65 physician practices and primary care centers, a nursing home, and a cancer center, with a total of 1,456 licensed beds. Carilion's Medical Center for Children in Roanoke serves as a regional pediatric referral site, and its Carilion Behavioral Health has become one of the most comprehensive psychiatric service networks in its area Serving a population of nearly 1 million residents in the western half of the state of Virginia, Carilion also provided $29.1 million in charity care in 2002.

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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