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SANsymphony™ Ensures High Availability of Patient Data

Efficient Storage Management at the Mќnchen-Schwabing Hospital

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Feb. 17, 2004) — DataCore Software, a leading provider of enterprise-class, open storage networking software, today announced Mќnchen-Schwabing Hospital has centralized its Storage Area Network (SAN) with DataCore's SANsymphony™ storage management platform. Munich's largest hospital is now benefiting from the high availability of its data and applications as well as accelerated backup processes. In addition, the hospital is able to reduce staff activity for storage management by almost 30 percent. The project has been implemented by DataCore's Elite Partner CEMA AG.

Using SANsymphony the hospital has consolidated the storage subsystems of different manufacturers within a central storage pool of 4 TB. The central management platform allocates storage capacities to applications flexibly and on demand. Through the comprehensive automation of administrative tasks and simplified handling, storage management activities have been reduced drastically. In addition, SANsymphony's huge range of functions ensures redundancy and high availability in the SAN.

"SANsymphony supports heterogeneous application and SAN platforms, allows for the integration of existing disk subsystems and offers long-term cost advantages with respect to storage expansions, since we are now able to purchase hardware independently of manufacturers," said Kosmas Schќtz, director of the Service Centre for Information Systems at the Hospital Mќnchen-Schwabing. "We were really convinced by the price/performance ratio of the solution: Mainframe features at Client/server prices!"

Within the context of the storage consolidation project, the data backup process has also been optimized through a 'Backup to Disk' procedure. First, application data is mirrored synchronously in the SAN. Then, SANsymphony Snapshot makes a point-in-time copy of data, which can then be used for the quick restoration and tape backup without impairing server operation. Through the use of SANsymphony in combination with VMware ESX Server for server virtualization, the hospital enjoys the benefits of an extremely flexible and very fast data backup solution.

"Due to the increased digitization, healthcare companies are faced with growing data volumes creating complex storage management requirements and greater cost pressures," said Ronald Kirch, sales manager CEMA AG. "SANsymphony has proven its worth in this field, since the software offers the degree of reliability and flexibility needed by modern hospitals."

About the Hospital Mќnchen-Schwabing
With 1253 beds and currently 2900 employees, the Mќnchen-Schwabing Hospital is the largest clinic of Munich and, with 26 special departments, an institution offering the highest level of care. In addition, it is an academic teaching clinic of the University of Munich. Cooperation and the exchange of experience between the different medical special departments are an essential component of optimum patient care in the clinic.

About CEMA
CEMA is a specialist in IT and network solutions as well as ASP and is based in Mannheim, Frankfurt a. M., Berlin and Mќnchen. Since CEMA was founded in 1990 it has been working in consulting, conception and implementation and in the operation of IT projects and services, with the emphasis on innovation, practice orientation and economic viability. This IT knowledge lead is an advantage for the customers with consulting, conception, conversion and enterprise of IT projects. The service and support concept of CEMA extends from a 24x7 helpdesk and individual training to complete IT outsourcing. Whether customers realize IT needs with market-well-known standards or with individual special solutions, CEMA always pays attention to a healthy balance between technology, organization and economy. As a partner with numerous certifications and authorizations from the most important vendors, CEMA has direct access to support and specialist knowledge.

About DataCore Software
DataCore Software fundamentally changes the economics of management storage with innovative software that combines advanced functions and services with the agility and savings of hardware independence. The company's award-winning SANsymphony software provides unprecedented purchasing flexibility and future-proofing by empowering customers to fulfill portability and price/performance requirements across a broad choice of systems and devices. Global 2000 enterprise data centers and OEM storage subsystems rely on this comprehensive software platform to centralize and automate storage management for Windows, UNIX, Linux, MacOS and NetWare systems. DataCore is privately owned and has its corporate headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For more information about our products and international office locations, visit www.datacore.com.

DataCore, the DataCore Logo and 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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Corporate Contacts:
DataCore Software Corporation
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CEMA AG
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muenchen@cema.de

Krankenhaus Mќnchen-Schwabing
+49 (0) 89 3068 0
kms@kms.mhn.de

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