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To: Aaron Cooperband who wrote (488)	2/2/1998 2:57:00 PM
From: Neil S	Respond to of 586

More on CPCI & SGI:Ciprico Announces Strategic Alliance with Silicon Graphics Ciprico to Help Complete Silicon Graphics' High-End Storage Offerings MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Ciprico Inc. (Nasdaq: CPCI) today announced that Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NYSE: SGI) will be reselling Ciprico's entire product line of RAID 3 disk arrays for the Silicon Graphics(R) Origin(TM) servers and Onyx2(TM) graphics systems worldwide. "We see Ciprico as a RAID 3 disk array leader and key to addressing our high-end storage solution offering," said Beau Vrolyk, Silicon Graphics vice president and general manager of the Server and Supercomputer Business Unit. "Origin servers and Onyx2 graphics systems, coupled with Ciprico RAID 3 solutions, will provide our customers I/0 performance to meet their most challenging data streaming applications." Silicon Graphics will sell and support Ciprico's disk arrays, ranging from Ultra SCSI to Fibre channel performance levels, to all Silicon Graphics' visual computing markets including: entertainment, satellite, oil/gas, digital prepress, medical imaging and other visual computing applications. This provides customers a single point for purchasing, configuring and maintenance of a total high-end solution. To guarantee compatibility and performance with Silicon Graphics' Origin servers and Onyx2 graphics systems, Ciprico's disk array products underwent extensive testing standards which were conducted at the Silicon Graphics' labs. "This strategic alliance is a hallmark of Ciprico's quality and performance," said Robert H. Kill, President and CEO of Ciprico. "Ciprico is a member of an elite group of companies which are able to exceed the demanding requirements for the visual computing market. This agreement creates a one-stop-shop for our customers' total capacity and performance needs." Ciprico's RAID 3 disk arrays are capable of throughputs from 40 to 100 MB/second and even higher when disk arrays are combined. They feature hot swappable disk drives, fans and power supplies. If a drive were to fail during operation, the drive is simply removed and replaced without performance degradation. This feature is crucial in many digital imaging applications. Capacity ranges from 72 GB to 144 GB per disk array. Ciprico Inc., an ISO-9000 certified company, designs, manufactures, markets and services disk arrays and SCSI adapters for the high-performance imaging and digital media markets. The company's products are sold worldwide to technical, scientific and creative professionals who require high performance, capacity and fault tolerance from their storage. Additional information about Ciprico can be obtained through the Internet on Ciprico's web site: www.ciprico.com. Silicon Graphics is a registered trademark, and Origin and Onyx2 are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc. SOURCE Ciprico Inc. CO: Ciprico Inc.; Silicon Graphics, Inc. ST: Minnesota IN: CPR SU: 02/02/98 14:47 EST prnewswire.com

To: Aaron Cooperband who wrote (488)	2/2/1998 3:52:00 PM
From: csm	Respond to of 586

Aaron, For one thing, it seems to put SGI's marketing (and support) to work for CPCI. After reading the CPCI press release I think this is quite positive and not just announcing an already existing relationship. Stuart.