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EXAVIO REDEFINES THE NATURE OF DIGITAL STORAGE

Exavio Inc, a San Jose, CA-based emerging growth company, announced that they have launched their first product offering -- the Exavio ExaVault Media storage system. The ExaVault is a high performance solution for near-line and archive storage in the on-demand environment, and is part of Exavio's vision to revolutionize on-demand video services.

Exavio's mission is to deliver low cost, high performance storage and intelligent streaming solutions for digital media over existing and future IP based digital networks, breaking down distance, cost, performance, and connectivity barriers that exist today for the storage and deployment of digital media. The company will target customers whose main needs are for digital media storage and distribution, with high requirements for storage capacity, lowest cost, scalability, and streaming throughput.

Exavio's initial product offering, the ExaVault Media storage system, is built on the premise of a low-cost, flexible but high performance digital media storage product specifically designed for next-generation on-demand media applications. Exavio has engineered its product to allow for easy integration into existing and future media environments while achieving the utmost in performance, scalability, flexibility, and cost management. The ExaVault is commercially available and is currently in multiple customer trials. The system provides large scale network storage for a variety of digital media applications including digital content creation, VOD content libraries, data backup, digital asset management, distance learning, space imagery, and digital surveillance. When combined with Exavio's intelligent streaming engine due out next year, it becomes a part of an extremely high performance, next generation video server solution capable of streaming high quality media anywhere, anytime over ubiquitous IP networks.

Exavio's vision was recently validated by an oversubscribed initial investment round made by blue chip venture capital firms including ComVentures, VantagePoint Venture Partners, Crystal Internet Venture Funds and Enspire Capital. "The momentum behind this growing global market sector has the potential for significant growth in both large scale low cost digital media storage, and the streaming solutions for digital media over existing and future IP networks -- specifically over the ubiquitous Gigabit Ethernet transport medium. Exavio is well positioned to take advantage of that growth," said Dr. Ji Zhang, president and CEO of Exavio.