Q Associates Exceeds $1 Million in Sales with SEPATON

Data protection technology company SEPATON sees strong market
demand for enterprise VTL storage products after naming reseller Q
Associates a UK Catalyst Partner
MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
SEPATON, Inc., the leader in enterprise-class data protection
solutions, today announced sales figures of more than $1 million USD
through UK enterprise technology reseller Q Associates, just six
months after selecting the company as a UK Catalyst Partner. Q
Associates, which partnered with SEPATON in January 2008, is tasked
with reselling SEPATON's S2100(R)-ES2 virtual tape library (VTL),
DeltaStor(R) data deduplication software and other products geared
towards the enterprise business market.

"Our rapid success with SEPATON is due to the company's ability to
build dynamic partnerships and deliver industry-leading VTL and data
deduplication technologies," said Andrew Griffiths of Q Associates.
"Businesses in the UK need to manage increasing data capacities with
maximum efficiency and look to specialists such as Q Associates to
provide fast, reliable solutions to secure their valuable data.
Working with SEPATON, reseller partners can develop multiple revenue
streams through VTL solutions, data deduplication software,
integration and professional services, thereby providing end-to-end
value and building stronger relationships with end-user customers."

With a range of training and support tools available to resellers,
including an intranet, pricing tool, configurators, whitepapers,
technical seminars and knowledge specialists, SEPATON ensures that all
the right channel resources are available when needed. Demonstration
units have been made available to Q Associates so that potential
customers can experience the ease, simplicity and speed of SEPATON's
solutions first-hand.

"As businesses in the UK produce more and more information, they
need to ensure their data is equally protected and recoverable," said
Christo Conidaris, sales director of SEPATON's EMEA market. "Our
relationship with Q Associates allows us to expand our reach in an
important market so our customers receive faster deduplication
performance with less processing power. By purchasing SEPATON's
ContentAware(TM) VTL technology from Q Associates, a business gains an
insurance policy for data that is invaluable and ultimately
irreplaceable."

SEPATON's ContentAware VTL technology provides all the benefits of
disk storage, whilst enabling longer online data retention to meet
SLAs. Costs are addressed by introducing data deduplication
technology, reducing physical disk requirements by as much as
fifty-fold. DeltaStor deduplication software resold by Q Associates
produces higher levels of data reduction than is possible with
compression and other de-duplication technologies. This approach
performs deduplication outside the primary data path, enabling it to
deliver wire speed Fibre Channel backup performance.

Unlike other technologies that use hashing algorithms to find
redundancies in byte streams, DeltaStor deduplication software looks
at objects and compares them to other objects. (e.g., Word document to
Word document or Oracle database to Oracle database.) This
object-level comparison enables a faster, more accurate deduplication
process and contributes to significantly higher deduplication ratios.

About Q Associates

Q Associates is one of the UK's leading technical computing
specialists, with considerable experience in the implementation of
high performance IT, data management and business applications for
clients throughout the corporate and public sectors. In partnership
with some of the industry's leading technology companies, Q Associates
works to provide clients with the information they require to support
their strategic IT decision making. Detailed technical advice and
knowledge is provided through our team of highly qualified
specialists.

About SEPATON, Inc.

SEPATON helps enterprises reduce risk and improve operational
efficiency in the data center with the industry's fastest, most
scalable virtual tape library and data deduplication solution. Built
on our patented ContentAware(TM) architecture, SEPATON products enable
enterprises to consolidate and protect information by deduplicating,
backing up and restoring petabytes of data at wire speed without
disruption to their existing infrastructure. We combine these products
with proven methodologies and in-depth services expertise to deliver a
measurable return on investment. For additional information call
866-SEPATON or visit http://www.sepaton.com.

SEPATON, SRE, S2100, DeltaStor, Site2 are registered trademarks of
SEPATON Corporation. ContentAware is a trademark of SEPATON
Corporation. All other brand and product names are or may be
trademarks of their respective owners.

SEPATON, Inc.
Beth Winkowski, 978-649-7189
bwinkowski@sepaton.com

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