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DiskSites DELIVERS BRANCH OFFICE FILE STORAGE SOLUTION

DiskSites Inc, a file storage consolidation solutions company, has announced the availability of W-NAS, a groundbreaking solution for consolidating branch office file storage. W-NAS was developed by DiskSites to enable companies with file storage in multiple branch offices to simply eliminate the need for such file storage, but letting branch office users work directly with a central file server at the data center. This is done by eliminating the performance problem usually associated with accessing storage over WAN.

W-NAS allows organizations such as financial institutions and government with multiple branch offices, and file storage at each, to dramatically lower the overall cost of managing file storage. Using W-NAS appliances to provide high performance read/write access to storage over the WAN, organizations can now consolidate critical data from branch offices to the data center where the data can be protected and managed from one location.

"Today's distributed enterprises do not have the IT resources or expertise necessary to support every remote office location." The manpower required to protect and manage data that resides in multiple remote offices is monumental," said Steve Kenniston, Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group. "The DiskSites technology allows companies to consolidate distributed file storage located in these remote offices to the data center where IT best practices exist. Managing data growth, data protection, disaster recovery, and ensuring business continuity are tasks easier performed with a distributed file system technology."

"Compared to other distributed file storage solutions, W-NAS is the only product available and shipping today that facilitates true file storage consolidation by enabling high performance read/write access to storage over the WAN," said Divon Lan, DiskSites' president and CEO. "This kind of product truly makes life easier for IT managers in large organizations, who are responsible for managing a large number of branch offices," said Lan.

Appliance configurations

The DiskSites W-NAS appliances include FileCache for branch offices and FilePort for data centers. W-NAS appliances run W-NAS software using commodity hardware available from vendors such as IBM and HP.

W-NAS includes a zero management, plug & play FileCache appliance that is installed at each branch office and a FilePort appliance that is installed at the data center. End users at the branch offices access files stored at the data center by going through the locally installed FileCache. The result is LAN performance over the WAN when reading or writing files.

About DiskSites Inc

DiskSites Inc is a leading supplier of appliance solutions that enable file storage consolidation for enterprises with distributed branch offices. DiskSites groundbreaking W-NAS appliances enable file storage consolidation in distributed enterprise environments by providing high-performance read/write access to storage over the WAN. DiskSites is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. DiskSites is funded by Network Appliance, Inc and leading venture capital firms. For more information about DiskSites, visit www.DiskSites.com or call 408-748-2600.

Contact: Bob Gilbert of DiskSites Inc, 408-748-2395, bob@DiskSites.com.