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PLASMON AUTOMATED LIBRARIES SUPPORT DOUBLE-SIDED DVD-R MEDIA

Plasmon, a leading manufacturer of the widest range of automated data storage libraries, has announced support for double-sided DVD-Recordable media in its D-Series DVD/CD libraries. Use of double-sided media effectively doubles the storage capacity of the library without increasing the footprint.

With demand growing for low cost data archiving, Plasmon has adapted DVD-R drives for use with its patented "Rotation Station" media flipper. The Plasmon D-Series DVD libraries had previously supported double-sided DVD-RAM media. With this new feature customers can choose to utilize either type of double-sided media, or even mixed media operation with both DVD-RAM and DVD-Recordable in the same library -- thus optimizing the flexibility of the storage system. Applications requiring economical storage of both transient data and archive data can use a single library, maximizing return on investment.

"K-PAR welcomes this new addition to the Plasmon range, "says Rachel Woods, Sales Director of K-PAR Archiving Software Limited. "The pressure on storage resources within an organization means a value has to be put on the data being stored. The flexibility that is offered by the Plasmon range of jukeboxes complimented by K-PAR's Archimedia software helps companies to make the right choice depending on the type of data. Archimedia supports all Plasmon jukeboxes under the same user interface, therefore our existing integrators can immediately start offering solutions based on the double-sided DVD-R media."

Key Plasmon ISV partners, such as Bakbone Software, Legato Systems and PoINT Software, currently support the use of double-sided DVD-R media in D-Series Libraries.

About Plasmon

Founded in 1987, Plasmon is an international business specializing in the design and manufacture of high-end removable data storage solutions and has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1996. Worldwide, Plasmon has over 500 employees and annual sales revenues in excess of $100m.

Plasmon's world-wide headquarters are in Cambridge in the UK where the company develops and manufactures 12-inch optical disk products at its ISO-9001 certified facility and provides specialist technology consulting to the CD-R and DVD rewritable manufacturing industry. Storage management software and network attached storage products are also developed in the UK. European regional sales offices are located in Munich, Paris, Milan and Antwerp. Plasmon also manufactures optical disc masters in Caen in northern France. In Europe, contact Plasmon at: Whiting Way, Melbourn, Royston, Hertfordshire SG8 6EN; tel: +44 (0)1763 262963 fax: +44 (0)1763 264444 Internet: www.plasmon.co.uk. e-mail: sales@plasmon.co.uk.

In the USA, Plasmon develops and manufactures magneto optical, CD/DVD and tape libraries and optical disk drives at its ISO-9001 certified facilities in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Plasmon is the leading manufacturer of 12-inch optical disk drives and media and also supplies a wide range of storage solutions based on 5.25" MO, CD/DVD and LTO/AIT tape storage technologies. Typical end-users of Plasmon products include banks, hospitals, insurance companies and government departments where the secure archival of large amounts of data are primary requirements. In North America, contact Plasmon at: 400 Inverness Drive So, Englewood, Colorado; tel: 800-451-6845 or 303-925-1855. Internet: www.plasmon.com. e-mail: sales@plasmon.com.

Contact: Kevin Meilinger, Marketing Communications Manager of Plasmon US, 720-873-2500, kevin,meilinger@plasmon.com.