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WINCHESTER SYSTEMS AND SANBOLIC JOIN FORCES

Winchester Systems announced that it is offering Kayo, the volume sharing software from Sanbolic Inc with their new low cost "SAN-In-A-Box" solutions. FlashDisk SAN-In-A-Box eliminates the costly components of traditional switched Fabric SANs, while providing a simple and affordable way to get full SAN capabilities. The systems are targeted to performance driven, yet, cost conscious users in media, pre-press, medical imaging, and the video industry.

"FlashDisk SAN-In-A-Box effectively slashes the entry price for implementing a SAN while delivering higher speed by using 160 MB Ultra160 SCSI instead of 100 MB Fibre-Channel," said Jerry Namery, Chief Technology Officer for Winchester Systems. He added, "With Sanbolic Inc Kayo software, this partnership enables customers to benefit immediately from SAN solutions that enable users to easily share the volumes within the workgroup, thus greatly improving user productivity."

A single FlashDisk SAN-In-A-Box supports up to six servers with up to 3 TB per array. With the option of having 2 Fibre Channel and 4 SCSI ports in the same array, you can easily migrate to a switched fabric SAN if future requirements change. It installs in minutes and is completely plug-and-play-right out of the box, there are no interoperability issues and no special training is needed. Cabinet holds nine FlashDisk SAN-In-A-Box systems, with up to 13 TB of total storage that supports up to 54 servers. To eliminate SCSI cable tangles, SCSI cables are no thicker than Ethernet cables.

"Winchester Systems is among the first in the market to provide this combined functionality at such a low price," said Eva Helen, Sanbolic's vice president of Business Development. "Combining a SCSI SAN with high performance, easy to use volume sharing, creates an innovative storage solution," she added.

By making better utilization of the storage resources SAN data-sharing functionality in applications such as Web Farms, Media, Backup, and Clustered Operations, this product opens up new business opportunities for the VAR's and provides customers a far greater ROI on their SAN investment.

About Winchester Systems

Winchester Systems provides SAN and NAS capable enterprise storage solutions including high performance SCSI and fibre channel RAID disk arrays, solidstate disks, tape backup devices and other high performance commercial and military grade storage for mid-range servers including UNIX and NT. Winchester Systems provides products that support today's most demanding industrial, government and commercial applications. For more information, contact Winchester Systems Inc 149 Middlesex Turnpike Burlington MA. 01803, USA. 800- 325-3700, 781-265-0200,or www.winsys.com.

About Sanbolic

Sanbolic Inc is a privately held company incorporated in 2000 and located in Watertown, Massachusetts. Sanbolic Inc is providing the market with the latest software for sharing and access of data. The product offerings are Kayo, volume sharing software, and Melio FS, a highly scalable, shared file system with heterogeneous operating system support for networked storage systems. Kayo is available worldwide, through a network of resellers and system integrators Melio FS will be available in the third quarter of 2002.