Pivot3 Announces Serverless Computing Technology

Innovative Convergence Approach Eliminates the Need for Servers;

Customers Use 44 Percent Less Power and Half the Rack Space of
Current "Serverful" Deployments
SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--
Pivot3, Inc., the market leader in High-Definition Storage(TM),
today announced a technology breakthrough, allowing for the
elimination of servers for most applications that store information.
Pivot3 Serverless Computing(TM) allows customers to absorb
compute-intensive workloads, now performed using stand-alone
application servers, into Pivot3's X86-based storage nodes. Pivot3's
unique approach to storage virtualization and server convergence
introduces dramatic improvements to today's server consolidation
acquisition costs, power consumption, heat generation, and rack space.
Pivot3 Serverless Computing also enables environments that have not
typically been considered good candidates for conventional server
virtualization deployments, because of the technology's unique
performance characteristics.

In addition to Pivot3's recent awards from Frost and Sullivan,
SIA, Byte and Switch and IPVS Labs, the company is also announcing
today that it has been selected as a finalist in the "Best
Virtualization Solution" category at the LinuxWorld Product Excellence
Awards to be presented at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo(R) in San
Francisco on August 5, 2008.

"Serverless Computing represents a new class of emerging
technology where I/O and compute resources are closely coupled
together to serve the needs of I/O-intensive workloads with less
complexity, easier management, and higher availability than
distributed solutions," said Jeff Boles, senior analyst and director
of Validation Services with the Taneja Group. "By layering server
virtualization on top of their high-performance, highly available,
x86-based storage controllers, Pivot3 allows organizations to harness
huge quantities of I/O without complex fabrics or complex management.
We believe that the Pivot3 infrastructure delivers a new level of
consolidation that will reduce power, cooling, and space requirements
when compared to traditional infrastructures. For the right
applications needing highly available access to high-bandwidth
storage, Pivot3's Serverless Computing may be a game-changing
innovation."

"Power efficiency is a top concern for every new IT installation,"
said Ann Edminster, owner/principal of Design AVEnues, a leading
consultant firm for new building installations seeking LEED
certification. "With the amount of hype in the market about power
savings, it is refreshing to see an approach that out-and-out
eliminates equipment. These are savings that are easily understood by
every participant in the IT purchase cycle and in operations."

"Pivot3 has taken advantage of the openness and high performance
of the Xen hypervisor to deliver a powerful new architecture for
storage subsystems," said Ian Pratt, chairman of xen.org. "Xen
virtualization is rapidly becoming embedded in all components of
enterprise IT architectures, from servers, to storage and network
appliances."

"This technology offers hard savings to customers with large-scale
storage and server environments," commented Lee Caswell, chief
marketing officer of Pivot3. "In our current video surveillance
market, a typical customer with 500 cameras will realize real savings
of 44 percent in power and cooling costs, 51 percent in rack-space
usage and 22 percent in cost savings by eliminating 15 physical
servers and five physical external failover storage chassis. We expect
these real savings to catch the attention of large-scale users in
markets beyond video surveillance, where power efficiency plays a
major role in new product decision-making."

"As Pivot3 works with its partners to apply Pivot3 Serverless
Computing to the general marketplace, we believe we can enable a
significant reduction to the carbon footprint of today's datacenter.
We intend to help our customers do more on fixed power and physical
space constraints while insuring they are as efficient and responsible
as technology will allow," added Bob Fernander, chief executive
officer of Pivot3.

Pivot3 Serverless Computing technology is being demonstrated
today, and products based on the technology will be announced and made
generally available this fall.

About Pivot3

Pivot3 is the fastest-growing storage company in the
high-definition storage market, with its leading-edge High-Definition
Video Storage technology being deployed in the gaming, homeland
security, public safety, education and transportation markets. The
company introduced the innovative RAIGE (RAID Across Gigabit
Ethernet) architecture that redefined the use of storage in capacity
and bandwidth-intensive environments. For markets such as surveillance
and video streaming, Pivot3 has replaced standalone DAS RAID boxes
with an IP SAN solution that matches the availability, manageability,
performance and cost targets of these customers. For more information,
please visit www.pivot3.com or call (877) 574-8683.

Pivot3 High-Definition Video Storage and Pivot3 Serverless
Computing are trademarks or registered trademark of Pivot3, Inc. All
other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of
their respective holders and should be treated as such.

Pivot3, Inc.
Jeff Greenwald, 650-391-1300 ext. 224
jeffg@pivot3.com
or
ClassyTech PR
Georgiana Comsa, 408-435-1500
georgiana@classytech.com

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