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Newmont Australia Automates Storage Management with DataCore SANsymphony™ Software

Volante Systems Delivers SANsymphony to Boost SAN Performance and Further Extend the Value of Existing Storage Investments

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (September 22, 2003) — DataCore Software, a leading provider of enterprise-class, open storage networking software, today announced the addition of Newmont Australia, the country's largest gold producer, to its list of Global 2000 accounts. Newmont implemented DataCore SANsymphony™ software with the help of DataCore's SANvantageSM partner, Volante Systems. Newmont Australia now manages four terabytes of IBM FAStT700 disks in a demanding SAP/Oracle environment with improved disk utilization rates reaching 77 percent, saving the IT staff time, resources and budget. Newmont Australia selected SANsymphony software to consolidate its storage management and automate storage allocation through the use of Network Managed Volumes (NMVs). This innovative feature reduces labor-intensive storage administration, extends the use of current storage assets and creates a cost-effective disaster recovery solution.

"The value for us comes not only from SANsymphony's NMVs, but the ability to enhance our Oracle and SAP storage requirements through centralizing the SAN management, accelerating performance and maximizing our existing resources," said Paul O'Leary, group specialist system integration with Newmont Australia. "We have been able to standardize on SANsymphony and use our current hardware to dramatically lower our total cost of ownership."

The NMV feature in SANsymphony software auto-provisions storage capacity and properly allocates resources -- without downtime -- for Newmont Australia. This concept moves volume management largely out of each client's operating system and consolidates it as a network-wide automated facility. SANsymphony assigns arbitrarily large virtual disks to hosts and automatically apportions physical space in smaller increments only as needed. The benefits to this approach include 'just enough and just-in-time' dynamic capacity allocation from network storage pools, disk space requirements collapsed to a minimum, fully utilized capacity without over-provisioning, and no downtime or administrator intervention required to resize or repartition host disks.

DataCore's SANvantage partner in Australia, Volante Systems, was instrumental in implementing and supporting SANsymphony at Newmont Australia. Volante has a long-term relationship with Newmont Australia, knew its requirements, and researched the best options in the storage market before making the appropriate recommendations to Newmont Australia about moving forward with DataCore's SANsymphony product.

"Volante specializes in solutions that fuse software applications, IT infrastructure, communications, storage, security, business processes and organizational structure to create a high-performance business model that gets customers working smoothly. The proposed SAN solution for Newmont Australia needed to be highly flexible to adapt to multiple changes without impacting normal business operations," said Neil Donnellan, solutions consultant with Volante. "With this in mind, after assessing the situation with the customer, our choice for Newmont Australia's storage management requirements was SANsymphony from DataCore. After discussing the benefits with Newmont Australia, they agreed that SANsymphony was the way for them to go."

DataCore's Asynchronous IP Mirroring (AIM) capability and Volante's implementation will allow Newmont Australia to extend the value, security and availability of its storage resources, by mirroring key data to a remote site over existing Internet Protocol (IP) infrastructure for cost-effective disaster recovery.

"SANsymphony software represents the next generation of comprehensive storage management products that provide enterprises like Newmont Australia with high-performance network storage pooling and affordable remote data replication," said Peter Thompson, managing director, Asia Pacific for DataCore. "This results in an improved and cost-effective strategy to manage and protect growing storage demands."

Newmont Australia is the local business unit of the world's premier gold producer, Newmont Mining Corporation, based in Denver, USA. The Company operates significant assets and operations on five continents including the United States, Peru, Australia and Indonesia.

About Volante Systems
Today's IT infrastructures need to be robust enough to cope with the demands of 24x7 availability and high usage business applications, yet be flexible enough to accommodate swiftly the latest technology and business developments. Looking after these IT infrastructures needs a long-term understanding of how IT can really benefit the business. It also requires a practical, specific, customer-focused approach based on real experience in implementing, supporting and managing technology for some of Australia's best organizations. At Volante Systems, the leading Australian-owned IT infrastructure services company, technical expertise, business and logistical know-how and the desire to exceed all customer expectations, goes hand-in-hand. www.volante.com.au

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 Intel-based storage servers running Windows 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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