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Sanbolic's Melio FS Shown at CeBIT 2003 by LSI Logic
Creative and interesting demo of Melio FS at LSI Logic's booth prove product understanding and promotes partnership.

Watertown, Mass., March 12, 2003 - Sanbolic, Inc., developer and manufacturer of Melio file system software and Kayo 3.0 for shared storage solutions, announces that LSI Logic is showing Melio FS as part of product demonstration at CeBIT 2003 in Hanover this week. The strategic relationship between the two companies, and the product certification process, has led to a mutually beneficial relationship in promotion and sales of LSI host bus adapters (HBAs) and Sanbolic software. The alliance has proven a framework for SAN interoperability, performance and scalability enhancements for several applications in clustered environments.

Melio FS has been designed for high performance, unlimited scalability, simple data management, and heterogeneous operating system support. The shared storage is formatted with Melio FS and presents a single storage pool across all servers attached to it, simplifying access to and administration of data and storage, and improving computing resource flexibility and scalability of applications. Easy to install and use, Melio FS addresses customer needs in workgroup environments, as well as enterprise data center and cluster or grid computing applications. The file system architecture supports both Windows and Unix requirements and is now commercially available with Windows drivers.

The demo at CeBIT shows the seamless integration of Sanbolic's Melio FS and the Fusion-MPT™ (Message Passing Technology) based LSI Logic 2 Gb/s, dual-channel LSI44929O Fibre Channel HBA. The application is media-rich and together LSI Logic and Sanbolic show that they provide the performance and scalability required to deliver as much as 360MB/s of sustained read and write throughput per system in a cluster.

"We are pleased to have a partner like LSI Logic showing Melio FS at CeBIT. It confirms that they have the knowledge about and appreciation for complementary software, and that they are active in promoting solutions as opposed to "just" hardware, which is what we believe what customers are looking for today", says Eva Helén, VP of Business Development at Sanbolic, Inc.

"The LSI Logic 2 Gb/s dual-channel LSI44929O HBA provides a new level of reliability, speed and distance in interconnect technology," said Charlie Kraus, director for LSI Logic HBA Marketing. "Demonstrating it with Sanbolic's file system Melio FS, and media-rich application, gives our customers the assurance that our HBAs are ideal for high-performance, data intensive SAN applications."

About Sanbolic:
Sanbolic, Inc. is a privately held company incorporated in 2000 and located in Watertown, Massachusetts. Sanbolic, Inc. provides the market with software for sharing and access of data. The product offerings are Kayo, volume-sharing software, first released in 2000, and Melio FS, a shared file system with heterogeneous operating system support.

About LSI Logic:
LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading designer and manufacturer of communications, consumer and storage semiconductors for applications that access, interconnect and store data, voice and video. In addition, the company supplies storage network solutions for the enterprise. LSI Logic is headquartered at 1621 Barber Lane, Milpitas, CA 95035, www.lsilogic.com.

Sanbolic, Kayo and Melio FS are registered trademarks of Sanbolic, Inc. All other company and product names contained herein are trademarks of the respective holders.

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