October 11, 1999 02:17
ADIC FastStor 22 Named Year's Best New Storage Hardware Product
of the Year at International Storage Conference
REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 1999--Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) announced today that the company's FastStor(TM) 22 DLTtape(TM) autoloader was named Product of the Year in the storage hardware category at the Storage 2000 conference held this year at the Palais de Congres in Paris.
This international conference, which focuses on all aspects of storage, archiving, backup, and data protection, is the only exhibition and conference held in Europe this year dedicated to storage and storage management topics.
The FastStor 22 was chosen as best storage hardware product of the year from among all the new data storage hardware products -- disk drives, tape drives, and tape libraries -- eligible for the award by a
selection jury that included representatives from the analyst, press, and end-user IT communities. Competing entrants for the prestigious award included new data storage products from Clariion, Compaq,
Exabyte, Hewlett Packard, Quantum Corporation, and Tandberg Data.
"ADIC is pleased that yet another panel of storage experts from the broad IT community has recognized that FastStor 22 offers an important and exciting new option for organizations facing data exploding both
in volume and in value," commented Bill Britts, ADIC executive vice-president of Sales and Marketing. "FastStor 22 has demonstrated again that high capacity and high reliability automated storage is no
longer limited to groups with large budgets."
Introduced in May of this year, FastStor 22 is a new DLTtape autoloader with 50% more capacity and 25% lower cost than the next largest competitors -- a product designed to bring enterprise-class levels of backup automation and price/performance to entry-level tape storage. FastStor 22 improves information management, increases data security, and reduces administrative overhead for IT departments by
providing the tape count required to support a full month or more of unattended backup.
FastStor 22 is based on ADIC's FastStor platform, one of the most successful compact DLT libraries ever introduced and one lauded by the industry for its unique combination of ease of use, low cost and
high reliability. Measured by actual field use, the demonstrated MTBF of FastStor is more than 400,000 hours (equivalent to 45 years of continuous service). Earlier this year, FastStor 22 was named Best New
Data Protection product by a panel of industry experts at the Comdex conference in Chicago.
About ADIC
With more than 45,000 automated tape libraries installed and a suite of innovative software solutions and Storage Area Networking (SAN) products, ADIC is a leading global provider in the growing market to manage and protect information for computer networks. Marketed under ADIC and ADIC/GRAU brands and the brands of OEM partners, including Dell, Exabyte and Unisys, automated tape libraries are available with DLTtape, D2, half-inch, AIT, and 4mm tape technologies, and are supported by leading backup and storage management software products for Windows NT, UNIX, and mainframe operating systems. The Company's own storage management tools include AMASS(R) and CentraVision(TM), software products which provide users shared access to network data. A pioneer in Storage Area Networks, ADIC's Open SAN solutions combine open-system SAN hardware and software with installation services and single-call support. Further product information is available via the Internet at www.adic.com.
ADIC, FastStor, AMASS, and CentraVision are trademarks of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. DLTtape is a trademark of Quantum Corporation. All other product, trademark, company, or service names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
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Steve Whitner, 425/895-3435
stevew@adic.com
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