archived press 2002
Chaparral and Sanbolic Team-Up in Offering Data Sharing SAN Solutions

Watertown, Massachusetts, March 27, 2002 - Chaparral Network Storage, Inc., headquarters in Boulder, Colo., and Sanbolic, Inc., headquarters in Watertown, MA, announced today that Chaparral has successfully tested Sanbolic's Kayo and Melio FS SAN data sharing software, with Chaparral's Stratis Storage Subsystems and RIO Storage Appliances and is demonstrating these bundled value-added SAN solutions at the Interoperability Lab at Storage Network World, Palm Desert, CA.

"By offering Sanbolic's Kayo and Melio FS with our RAID subsystems our customers can have access to an advanced, yet easy to use software, offering fast, scalable and highly reliable solution for sharing SAN information, '' said Dennis J. Cindrich, Chaparral Executive VP of sales and Marketing. "Kayo and Melio FS are an excellent fit with Chaparral Stratis RAID and RIO storage subsystems. They will allow Chaparral products to better meet the demands of the storage-marketplace, offering customers affordable, industry-leading storage consolidation, along with the highest levels of availability, data integrity, high performance and data sharing capabilities."

"We are delighted to partner with Chaparral, as we continue to lead the way in delivering new SAN capabilities for our customers," says Eva Helén, Sanbolic's VP of Business Development. "By utilizing Kayo and Melio FS, our partners are able to offer new levels of SAN data-sharing functionality in applications such as Web Farms, Media, Back up, and Clustered Operations, and it will open-up new business opportunities for the VAR's. Chaparral's products interoperated well and delivered high performance using our software."

With Sanbolic's Kayo and Melio FS, Chaparral's customers will be able to share all their SAN storage and improve the ROI of SAN's by making better utilization of the storage resources within the data center.

About Chaparral:
Chaparral Network Storage, Inc., a privately held company headquarters in Boulder, Colo., designs and markets storage appliances that provide simple solutions to common storage networking problems. Chaparral specializes in advanced performance devices that deliver data efficiently within the network, and sells protocol bridges, data routers, RAID controllers and disk array appliances that are network-ready. Chaparral's Stratis RAID is a family of built-to-order RAID subsystems. RIO, the first product built on Chaparral's new flexible appliances platform, is a self-contained 2 Gb Fibre Channel-to-Fibre Channel RAID appliance. Chaparral's storage networking appliances feature SCSI and FC connectivity, easy device configuration and management tools, and tested interoperability with leading SAN products and storage resource management software. Chaparral's family of 2Gb/s Fibre Channel appliances allows any system administrator to build high performance storage networks on a manageable budget. Chaparral's solutions are available through select storage OEMs, resellers and distributors worldwide. Chaparral's channel partners and customers include industry leaders such as Adaptec, Groupe Bull, Overland Data, Qualstar,
and Quantum ATL.

About Sanbolic:
Sanbolic, Inc. is a privately held company incorporated in 2000 and located in Watertown, Massachusetts. Sanbolic, Inc. is providing the market with the latest software for sharing and access of data. The product offerings are Kayo, volume sharing software, and Melio FS, a shared file system with heterogeneous operating system support for storage systems. Kayo is available worldwide, through a network of resellers and system integrators Melio FS will be available in the second quarter of 2002.

The following terms are trademarks of Sanbolic, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries: Sanbolic, Kayo, Melio FS. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

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