Gresham Enterprise Storage Selects Hifn’s Express DR 1050 Capacity Optimization Cards

Express Cards Double Capacity for Clareti Storage Director and Increase System Efficiency

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LOS GATOS, Calif., December 1, 2008 [PR2WEB] – Hifn™ (NASDAQ: HIFN), the catalyst behind storage and networking innovation, today announced that Gresham Enterprise Storage Inc, has chosen Hifn’s Express DR 1050 capacity optimization cards to integrate into its innovative Clareti Storage Director, the industry’s only tape virtualization and backup virtualization solution.  Utilizing the Hifn Express DR 1050 card Gresham can effectively double the capacity of disk and tape devices attached to the Clareti Storage Director, enabling customers to save on operating costs including power, cooling and space.

Gresham’s Clareti Storage Director is the complete backup/restore virtualization suite that delivers levels of performance and functionality designed to improve backup/recovery times, reduce costs, and provide operational efficiencies. It is also the industry's first real-time backup virtualization solution to integrate data protection management and heterogeneous tape library consolidation.  The Clareti Storage Director minimizes operational costs associated with data backup and restoration in enterprise environments.

“Data compression is an invaluable tool to help offset the unrelenting storage growth and save customer’s time and resources, which is only feasible with a hardware-accelerated, in-line solution such as the Express DR cards,” said Ed Ahl, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Gresham.  “The value proposition of Hifn’s Express DR cards complements the Clareti Storage Director’s value proposition - provide our customers with a high-performance, capacity-optimized backup/restore virtualization solution that reduces operating costs.”
 
The addition of the Hifn capacity optimization card in the Clareti Storage Director provides an enterprise-class, hardware-accelerated data reduction solution designed to mitigate exponential growth in stored data, improve total cost of ownership, and provide a green option for customers.  The DR 1050 offloads the industry-standard LZS lossless data compression delivering hardware-advantaged compression performance of up to 962 MByte/sec.  Up to four DR 1050 cards per node can be added to scale performance up to 3.8 Gbytes/sec.  Hifn’s zero-defect data design ensures compressed data reliability with 100 percent data verification and CRC validation.

 
“Gresham has recognized the value of hardware-accelerated data compression in changing the value proposition of enterprise storage systems,” said Mike Goldgof, vice president, product marketing at Hifn.  “By adding our Express DR 1050 card to the Clareti Storage Director, Gresham has joined with the industry’s elite as more than 70 percent of the world’s data networks and storage systems vendors rely on Hifn data reduction technology.”

About the Express DR Family
The Express DR family of capacity optimization cards offers load-balancing, bus-mastering DMA, and a 4-lane PCI Express bus.  Unique to Hifn products is the “enhanced” LZS (eLZS) technology, which eliminates data expansion while maintaining compressed data performance.  The Express DR family also offers high-assurance features which verify data record integrity during processing, and assure data transfers through host memory and to the storage media and back.

About Hifn
Hifn (NASDAQ:HIFN) delivers the key OEM ingredients for 21st century storage and networking environments.  Leveraging over a decade of leadership and expertise in the development of purpose-built Applied Services Processors (ASPs), we are a trusted partner to industry leaders for whom infrastructure innovation in storage and networking is critical to success.  With the majority of secure networked communications flowing through Hifn technology, the 21st century convergence of storage and networking drives our product roadmap forward. 

For more information, please visit: www.hifn.com.

About Gresham Enterprise Storage
Gresham Enterprise Storage delivers data protection with vision, combining the visibility of comprehensive storage analytics with highly scalable and easily manageable backup and restore to optimize operating costs. The world's most successful enterprises, including many of the Global 500 and the world’s largest data centers, use our Backup Virtualization Solutions, Gresham Clareti® Storage Director, and our TSM tape and drive management solution, Clareti® EDT, to manage the unrelenting growth of data with ease, improve their backup/restore performance, and scale their environments cost-effectively.

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