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IMPERIAL'S SANaccelerator LIVES UP TO NAME, SAYS eWeek LABS

Imperial Technology, the company accelerating application performance, earned a rating of Excellent for both Usability and Performance for its recently announced SANaccelerator in a review entitled "Imperial Unit Ably Lives Up to Its Name" in the July 29 issue of eWeek.

"Imperial Technology's SANaccelerator can add a performance charge to virtually any SAN," said Henry Baltazar, Senior Analyst with eWeek. "The SANaccelerator's high rate of storage throughput and I/O's per second make it an ideal storage receptacle for heavily hit database index files or caching solutions."

"Last year, eWeek called our MegaRam-2000 the Ferrari of Storage. This year, our newest product, the SANaccelerator, continues to build upon the Imperial tradition of lightening fast performance with a specific focus on SAN's," said Robert David, CEO and president of Imperial Technology. "Fibre attached storage was good enough last year but today you must have SAN Security, provisioning, 2Gbps connectivity, and automated discovery capabilities to make your product both usable and manageable -- and we have all that and more in our SANaccelerator."

The SANaccelerator looks similar to Imperial Technology's MegaRam solid state disk product line, but the SANaccelerator includes features that make it more SAN-friendly in shared storage environments. These features include SANaccess, which provides LUN Security to assign and bind specific storage units to the domain names of specific servers. The SANaccelerator also provides auto-discovery of WorldWide Names making the SANaccelerator easier to configure and manage. In addition, with support for 64 or more servers in a SAN, the SANaccelerator scales from affordable SAN initiatives to enterprise class shared storage environments.

Imperial's MegaRam and SANaccelerator have become one of the hottest tools for telecommunications companies, e-business, and financial institutions attempting to gain a competitive advantage in retaining existing customers and attracting new customers. Simply adding one or more of these devices can often increase performance by 200-800% and simultaneously improve online response times by up to 95%. In many situations, Imperial accelerators can effectively defer or eliminate the need for purchasing faster servers or incurring higher CPU-based licensing fees.

About Imperial Technology Inc

Headquartered in El Segundo CA. Imperial Technology has over twenty years of experience designing and manufacturing high-performance storage systems that shatter I/O bottlenecks. Imperial's products are installed on Sun, HP, Compaq/Digital, IBM and Unisys systems. They integrate and install seamlessly in virtually all operating system and application environments where high performance and high reliability are requirements. Imperial Technology can be reached at 800-451-0666 or online at www.imperialtech.com.

Information on SANaccelerator products are at www.SANaccelerator.com.