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Keane Retools Sentara Health's Storage Practice with DataCore's SANsymphony Software

Economically Achieves High End Performance and Scalability While Protecting Clinical Data

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (June 21, 2004) — DataCore Software, a leading independent software vendor specializing in storage control, management and consolidation, today announced that Sentara Healthcare of Virginia, has implemented SANsymphony™ software to enable the award-winning health network establish an enduring storage practice that provides the highest levels of availability, data protection and performance. Keane, Inc., a leading business and information technology (IT) outsourcing firm, worked closely with Sentara to architect and deploy the solution.

"Sentara's mission is to serve our broad community with innovative, high quality health services, and in today's world, that involves extensive digitization of clinical and administrative systems," said Dale Smith, director of IT, Sentara Healthcare. "DataCore SANsymphony enables Sentara to ensure that our critical medical systems provide cost-effective, continuous and incredibly high-speed access to data."

The new storage network supports Sunrise Clinical Manager (SCM) and has provided significant patient care benefits configured for pharmacy use. SCM employs a rules engine to provide sophisticated screening for allergies, interactions, dose and duplication as well as checks of medication orders versus laboratory results. The end result is that the system notifies the pharmacists of potential problems with medication therapy long before they can cause harm to the patients. SCM runs on a Microsoft SQL Server platform in a multi-clustered environment utilizing a range of hardware from HP and serial ATA (SATA storage).

Sentara is testing the performance of high-end arrays using SANsymphony to control and accelerate low-cost SATA storage. Three months ago, copying a volume within an array took three hours. Performing the same routine, but now copying the same data off the array to the DataCore-managed SATA storage, takes just one hour. Defragmenting a database now only takes 20 minutes instead of three hours. Sentara is achieving similar results creating disk-based backups for production servers.

"Keane is seeing these same kinds of astonishing performance results at multiple clients for whom we deliver Application Development services," said Blake White, service delivery manager, Keane, Inc. "Performance is just part of the story. The increased protection derived from physically separating redundant copies of data across different hardware, the cost-efficiencies of using different tiers of storage, and the benefits of having a consolidated point of management for all hardware going forward are tremendous advantages for enterprises of all sizes."

"World-class consulting practices like Keane and large regional health systems like Sentara are using SANsymphony to set the pace for the storage industry," said Bharat Kumar, vice president of worldwide marketing at DataCore. "These organizations are taking advantage of a new archetype for the storage practice, one that trims costs, minimizes hardware dependencies and leverages all the best technologies the industry has to offer."

About Sentara Healthcare
Sentara Healthcare, a premier not-for-profit health care provider in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, is comprised of more than 70 sites of care including 6 acute care hospitals, a hospital for extended recovery, 2 outpatient care campuses, 7 nursing centers, 3 assisted living centers, and 25 primary care practices. Sentara also offers a full range of award-winning health coverage plans, home health and hospice services, physical therapy and rehabilitation services, mobile diagnostic vans, and ground and air medical transport services, including Nightingale-the region's only air ambulance service. Sentara also was the first in the nation to pioneer and develop eICU(r), an electronic intensive care treatment system. Striving to improve the wellness of the community, Sentara continues to participate in national and international research trials as a means to increase the medical options available to patients well into the future. Sentara Healthcare has consistently ranked among the nation's top integrated health care networks as published in Modern Healthcare magazine. Garnering the No.1 position in the U.S. in 2001, Sentara is the only health care system on the East Coast to be ranked in the nation's top 10 all seven years the survey has been conducted. For more information on Sentara Healthcare, visit www.sentara.com.

About Keane
Keane, Inc. (NYSE: KEA), helps clients to improve their business operations and IT effectiveness by delivering a broad range of business consulting and outsourcing services designed to achieve near-term and sustainable business benefit. Specifically, Keane focuses on highly synergistic service offerings, including: Application Development & Integration, Application Outsourcing, and Business Process Outsourcing. Keane believes that business and IT improvements are best realized by streamlining and optimizing business and IT processes, implementing rigorous management disciplines, and fostering a culture of accountability through meaningful performance metrics. Keane delivers its services through an integrated network of branch offices in North America and the United Kingdom, and via SEI CMM Level 5 evaluated Advanced Development Centers (ADCs) in Canada and India. Information on Keane is available on the Internet at www.keane.com.

About DataCore Software
DataCore Software fundamentally changes the economics of managing storage with innovative software that combines advanced functions and services with the agility and savings of hardware independence. The company's award-winning SANsymphony and new low-cost SANmelody disk server software products provide unprecedented purchasing flexibility and future-proofing by empowering customers to fulfill portability and price/performance requirements across a broad choice of systems and devices. Small to Medium Enterprises, Global 2000 data centers and OEM storage subsystems rely on this comprehensive product portfolio to deploy disk servers, to easily add capacity expansion and to centralize and automate storage management for Windows, Unix, Linux, MacOS and NetWare systems. 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 and SANsymphony 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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