NETEX SHOWCASES HYPERIP DRO (DATA REPLICATION OPTIMIZER) AT EMC TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT

Company is a Silver Sponsor of leading global conference

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 16, 2005 — NetEx, the worldwide leader in high performance data transport solutions, today announced that it will preview HyperIP DRO, the industry’s first data replication optimizer that enables maximum data replication acceleration over existing IP networks, in the Solutions Pavilion of the EMC Technology Summit at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans May 16-19.

The EMC Technology Summit is an annual conference that offers technologists, industry experts and IT gurus from around the world an opportunity to come together and share best practices, industry trends, future directions and real-world practical solutions. NetEx is a Silver Sponsor of the event.

“Our sponsorship of the EMC Technology Summit and participation in the conference’s Solution Pavilion is an optimal way for storage networking professionals and storage system administrators to learn about the benefits of HyperIP,” said Robert MacIntyre, Vice President Business Development and Marketing at NetEx. “HyperIP eliminates the inefficiencies of traditional TCP/IP-based networks while substantially improving end-to-end performance and compliance compared with costly and complex Fibre Channel over IP products.”

HyperIP ensures that data replication applications are consistently completed on time between distributed servers and/or storage controllers for compliant disaster recovery applications. No other IP-based data replication product offers comparable application performance, bandwidth conservation and end-to-end throughput than HyperIP. For enterprises choosing iSCSI or TCP-based remote replication, HyperIP benefits these applications by accelerating data replication over any distance, improving link utilization and shielding against the effect of packet loss.

HyperIP delivers award winning performance for the most complete suite of tested, qualified, and vendor approved data replication applications in the industry. HyperIP is qualified with industry-leading data replication products like: EMC SRDF Adaptive Copy and SRDF/A on Gigabit Ethernet Directors, Network Appliance SnapMirror and SnapVault, Veritas Volume Replicator and Replicator Exec, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Microsoft Exchange NetBIOS, Oracle DataGuard and DB Rsync, NSI Double-Take, Maranti CoreStor Replication and industry-standard FTP.

About NetEx
Formed in 1999 as a spin-off of Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek®), privately-held NetEx has provided the world's fastest data transport in the industry, along with guaranteed data delivery, for over 20 years to more than 100 of the world's largest and most sophisticated organizations, including some of the most prestigious providers of financial, transportation and telecommunications services and government entities. Customers include Telstra, NTT, Verizon, BellSouth, Qwest, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, LloydsTSB, NDC Health, IRS, American, Lufthansa, Northwest, United Airlines and Kellogg. For more information about NetEx, NetEx/IP or HyperIP, visit www.netex.com or call +1 763-694-4300.

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