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Town Hall of Asniшres, France Selects DataCore to Govern, Protect and Consolidate Storage

Paris, France - December 6, 2005 — DataCore Software today announced that it is pleased to add the Town Hall of Asniшres to its growing list of city, state and local government users who are using DataCore technology to meet public service needs. The Town Hall of Asniшres adopted a solution suggested by integrator CFI that implements DataCore's SANsymphony™ as a cost-effective approach to consolidating its network of storage.

"We were enamored by SANsymphony's capabilities in terms of virtualization and central management of storage within our environment," said Jean Michaut, Town Hall of Asniшres IT manager. "The software automated many time-consuming storage tasks. The snapshot functions within SANsymphony let us conduct tests without impacting users, and the virtual capacity feature made it simple and efficient to serve storage capacity. Now, when we need to, we can add disk space progressively and according to our real needs, without impacting users and our operations."

The Town hall of Asniшres, located near Paris, has more than 76,000 inhabitants. A city budget of over 130 million euros is used to meet the needs and services of its base of citizens - impacting many aspects of life in Asniшres in terms of administration, public services, construction, rehabilitation, education, sports, social projects, etc. The city also services the needs of its business community. More than 2,200 companies are located within the boundaries of Asniшres.

Continuous availability and access to data is vital to servicing the information needs of the citizens. Also, in the era of "e-administration," data and therefore storage grows dramatically every year. The Town Hall of Asniшres decided it needed to modernize its information processing system and, in particular, its storage capabilities. The challenge: improve management and data protection capabilities while optimizing the use of existing storage, networking infrastructure, operating systems (Windows and Unix) and application servers already in place. The Town Hall also specified that it wanted a hardware independent solution so that its infrastructure would have the flexibility to meet future requirements.

To get started, the Town Hall of Asniшres set up an in-house study to re-examine its system of storage and to evaluate the market offerings for an open and hardware independent storage area network (SAN).

After six months and much analysis, it chose to use its HP MSA 1000 storage hardware (2 Bays) and SANsymphony software to manage and virtualize the SAN. SANsymphony provided an open and hardware-independent approach that also delivered robust high availability and auto-provisioning features.

CFI provided the integrated solution, which consisted of redundant Fibre Channel (FC) switches and servers (Intel PC servers), running SANsymphony. Each server uses dual path Q-Logic FC adapters connecting each of the MSA 1000 storage bays that were already in place. The configuration is fully redundant and uses SANsymphony's mirror mode to replicate the data from one bay to the other to ensure maximum availability. The deployment of the new infrastructure proceeded without issues and on schedule. The system now supports all office automation processes, special applications and services, databases, the Exchange mail system, etc. The Town Hall expects storage to more than double in the near term as digitization of data increases and with new Web services to manage.

The Town Hall of Asniшres selected SANsymphony to achieve hardware independence and open up its storage purchasing process. Its increasing storage capacity needs and the fact that storage prices keep dropping 50% per annum drove the Town Hall's decision to have a hardware independent storage architecture.

The Town Hall of Asniшres is now evaluating the use of SANsymphony to perform disaster recovery by allowing the SAN to mirror critical data volumes over standard IP networks. In addition, it will begin testing DataCore's SANmaestro™ software to centrally monitor Windows systems and SAN resource usage trends. SANmaestro generates useful reports, metrics, and displays to spot bottlenecks, enhance resource utilization, improve capacity planning and to track or charge back by resource usage.

About DataCore Software
DataCore Software fundamentally changes the economics of managing storage. DataCore's disk server software easily adds capacity expansion and centralized storage management for Windows, UNIX, Linux, VMware, MacOS, and NetWare systems. DataCore is privately held with corporate headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For more information, visit www.datacore.com.

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