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Exabyte VXA-1 Tape Drive Certified On Toshiba Magnia Servers

The VXA-1/Retrospect bundle will be offered as a third-party add-on storage solution with the Magnia 550D, Magnia 3200, Magnia 7100, and the newest addition to the Magna server line.

The Magnia Z310 is a unique half-rack wide, 2U space-saving, high-performance wireless mobility server. The servers and tape drives will be featured at PC Expo in New York.

Designed for reliability and assured, continuous availability, the Magnia server line offers the right blend of flexibility, power and size to accommodate the evolving demands of any size business. The servers range from entry-level servers for small businesses with limited IT budgets to robust enterprise servers for vast data processing that can handle data-intensive applications ranging from high transaction processing and data mining, to managing large amounts of customer data.

"With VXA tape backup, our server customers have access to an affordable and dependable solution for data archival and disaster recovery," said Bill Greenlund, vice president, server marketing group, Toshiba CSG. "Additionally, Exabyte VXA-1 tape drives, combined with Toshiba's new Magnia Z310 wireless mobility server offer users a robust storage solution combined with full-featured wireless networking capability."

"Toshiba and other OEMs are sensitive to the issues of reliability and value that make VXA an ideal choice for a server-attached tape backup solution," said Tom Ward, president and CEO of Exabyte. "All of us at Exabyte are very pleased that Toshiba has selected VXA tape drives for use with their Magnia servers. Their choice adds to VXA's growing momentum as a de facto tape backup solution in both the OEM channel and the distribution sales channel."

Toshiba will offer SCSI and IDE/ATAPI interface versions of the VXA-1 tape drive, with 33 GB of uncompressed capacity (66 GB with built-in ALDC compression and 3 Mb/sec of transfer rate (6 Mb/sec compressed). The Exabyte VXA-1 drive and VXA AutoPak 1X10 autoloader will be featured at the Toshiba booth at PC Expo, Javits Convention Center, New York. Demonstrations of these storage products and the Magnia servers will be on display during normal show hours at booth #3136.

About VXA Tape Technology

First introduced in 1999, award-winning VXA tape products offer a unique combination of reliability, performance, and value. VXA drives are the ideal replacement for drives based on the popular DDS tape technology, which has reached the end of its product roadmap.

The ending of the DDS roadmap means that millions of DDS users must migrate to alternative tape backup technologies. VXA offers them the ideal solution with higher capacity and performance at the same price point as DDS. VXA also offers superior reliability, based on an innovative read/write architecture with a highly reliable Internet-like packet format, designed for 100% data restore.The published VXA roadmap extends through several generations into VXA-4, ensuring long-term protection of users' investments in drives and media.Higher capacities and unattended backup are available with Exabyte's VXA

AutoPak product line, a family of low-cost entry-level tape automation devices featuring the VXA AutoPak 1x15 autoloader, the VXA AutoPak 2x30 mini- library, and the newly announced VXA AutoPak 1x10, a 2U rack mount autoloader. VXA-1 tape drives are certified for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and VXA-1 is an ECMAcertified tape standard. Computer manufacturers who have chosen VXA include Apple, Compaq, Fujitsu, Logitec, and Toshiba.

About Toshiba America Information Systems Inc

Toshiba Computer Systems Group, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems Inc (TAIS), is a leading vendor for portable computers. In addition to notebooks, the company offers portable and wireless accessories, a Pocket PC device, and server computing solutions for business customers under the Toshiba brand name. For more information call 1-800-TOSHIBA or visit the company's Web site at www.csd.toshiba.com.

Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TAIS is comprised of multiple divisions that provide computer, communications and imaging products and services. Products include industry leading portable computers; PDAs; mobile computing accessories; servers, including communications and portable servers; storage subsystems; cable modems; digital business telephone systems; voice- mail; digital cameras; security systems, and projectors.

TAIS provides sales, marketing, services and manufacturing for its wide range of information products in the United States and Latin America. TAIS is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America Inc, a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, which is one of the world's leaders in high technology and integrated manufacturing of electrical and electronic components, products and systems.

Toshiba has global sales of over $40 billion and more than 300 subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide.

About Exabyte Corporation

Since 1987, when it introduced the world's first 8mm tape drive for data storage, Exabyte Corporation has been recognized as a leading innovator in tape storage and automation.

Exabyte tape solutions offer value, performance and reliability for midrange servers, workstations and computer networks. Exabyte products include Mammoth- 2 (M2), the first 8mm native Fibre Channel tape drive; VXA-1, the first packet format tape drive; and the 110L autoloader, one of the first tape automation units for LTO (Ultrium. Exabyte markets VXA, 8mm and MammothTape drives and automation for MammothTape, VXA, and LTO (Ultrium).

Exabyte's worldwide network of distributors, resellers and OEMs includes IBM, Compaq, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Apple Computer, Tech Data, Ingram Micro, Digital Storage Inc and Arrow Electronics.

For additional information, call 1-800-exabyte or visit www.exabyte.com