ProStor Systems Sees Strong Market Adoption for ProStor InfiniVault - Announces General...

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ProStor Systems Sees Strong Market Adoption for ProStor InfiniVault -
Announces General Availability of Release 2.0

BOULDER, Colo., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- ProStor Systems, the leading supplier
of removable disk storage systems for business backup and archiving, announced
today that their ProStor InfiniVault(R) is gaining widespread channel and
market adoption as an alternative to tape, optical, and disk when data must be
properly maintained and managed for five years or longer. Channel partners
Construction Imaging and Cranel Imaging provided examples of their success
implementing ProStor InfiniVault in a variety of markets, including finance,
government, healthcare, enterprise content management, construction, and
gaming. Additionally, the company announced the general availability of
Release 2 for their ProStor InfiniVault family of products. 

"The exponential increase in data proliferation across all industries coupled
with the need to intelligently manage and economically retain it provides an
excellent driver for ProStor's InfiniVault adoption," says Arun Taneja,
founder, president and consulting analyst of the Taneja Group. "I am impressed
with their execution of product and channel strategy and their traction is
impressive with customers who want to deploy a fast, affordable, secure and
reliable platform for long-term data retention, e-discovery and regulatory
compliance in a single, integrated system. The cost of their system compares
favorably even with tape, let alone disk." 

Construction Imaging, which provides imaging systems, document management,
enterprise content management, workflow management, and business process
re-engineering solutions to the construction industry, recently implemented
ProStor InfiniVault Release 2 solutions at S.T. Wooten and Complete General.
"When we were looking for a Plasmon replacement, we researched NetApp and
PowerFile, but these solutions didn't meet the specific needs of our customers
the way ProStor InfiniVault did - plus the prices of the other solutions were
prohibitive," asserts Todd Williams, senior vice president of operations and
CFO, Construction Imaging. "The main requirements that are most important to
our customers are the system's longevity, scalability, meeting legal
compliance requirements, and price. We chose ProStor InfiniVault because it
addressed those pain points and also met our clients' data retention and
backup needs. Additionally, when comparing ProStor InfiniVault against other
technologies, we found that ProStor InfiniVault was able to provide WORM and
audit trail functions at the file level that were superior to the others. The
fact that the RDX removable disk interface of ProStor InfiniVault guarantees
the scalability and longevity of the system and the widespread adoption of RDX
technology is a huge difference over optical - making ProStor InfiniVault the
hands-down winner."

Chad Stigall, product marketing manager of Cranel Imaging, couldn't agree
more. "Cranel Imaging has a long history with archival storage technologies.
As the nation's leading value-added distributor (VAD) of ECM products and
services we began selling ProStor InfiniVault in early 2009. We've already
sold 10 systems, and we've now grown our sales pipeline to include 30
technology partners. Our customers are content management resellers, and their
need to meet customers' data retention management, regulatory compliance, and
e-discovery's achieved consistently by ProStor InfiniVault. Most of our VARs
sell into the SMB space, so ProStor InfiniVault is ideal for their buyers'
compliance requirements. ProStor InfiniVault has been a great fit and is a
very openly accepted technology in our market."

Cranel Imaging offers broad and deep inventories of products and supplies from
industry leading supply chain partners, including document scanners from Bowe
Bell and Howell, Fujitsu, Kodak, Canon, Panasonic, and Visioneer/Xerox,
archival storage from ProStor Systems, and CD/DVD/BD on demand publishing and
duplication from Rimage.

"Our channel success and ever-increasing market adoption of ProStor
InfiniVault technology validates our ability to deliver a substantial
return-on-investment, while drastically reducing total-cost-of-ownership for
our customer base," adds Frank Harbist, president and CEO of ProStor Systems.
"The momentum in the market reinforces ProStor InfiniVault as a must-have
resource in the VARs' arsenal to help address their customers' long-term
retention needs.  To further support our channel and excellent partners like
Construction Imaging and Cranel Imaging, we're very pleased to offer our
customers the latest Release 2.0 for ProStor InfiniVault which adds
significantly to the already feature-rich capabilities of the system."  

The latest 2.0 Release for ProStor InfiniVault adds exciting new features
including:

Remote Replication: Copies of data can now be sent to a ProStor InfiniVault
system at a geographically separate site to improve disaster-recovery
benefits. The Remote Replication feature provides a second disaster-recovery
option in addition to the current capability of automatically making multiple
copies of data and transporting the RDX disk cartridges to an offsite
location. 

Read/Write Vaults: ProStor InfiniVault now offers the ability to create
read/write vaults to allow third-party applications and administrators to
control retention policies, thus expanding application availability and
interoperability.

Dual Ethernet Adapters: ProStor InfiniVault now has a second, configurable,
GigE network connection. These ports can be configured in Teaming Mode for
fault-tolerance, or they can be configured in Specialized Ports Mode to
segregate data from management traffic.

Capacity Reclamation: ProStor InfiniVault now allows WORM vaults to be removed
from the file area and RDX cartridge capacity reused after data reaches its
retention limit while maintaining compliance. This extends the time before new
capacity needs to be purchased by the customer. 

About ProStor Systems 

ProStor Systems provides industry-leading solutions for the cost-effective,
long-term storage of digital information. ProStor's RDX(R) removable disk
technology is sold by leading server manufacturers Dell, HP, IBM, and others
who combined have shipped over 70 petabytes to 150,000 customers worldwide.
ProStor InfiniVault(R) is the most cost-effective storage system for the
long-term retention of data and images. ProStor InfiniVault integrates
information management software, online disk, and RDX removable disk to
simplify retention management while automating disaster protection and
regulatory compliance. This intelligent storage system is replacing optical,
tape, and disk in healthcare, document imaging, financial services, digital
video archive, service provider, and government markets. 

For more information about ProStor Systems, visit
http://www.prostorsystems.com or contact the company at
info@prostorsystems.com or 303-565-3100. Visit http://www.rdxstorage.com to
learn more about RDX removable disk technology. 

Customers can upgrade to Release 2 by going to the Downloads section of the
Support Portal or call ProStor Customer Support for assistance at
1.866.443.7515.

ProStor Systems, RDX and InfiniVault are registered trademarks of ProStor
Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.



SOURCE  ProStor System

Curtis Chan of CHAN & ASSOCIATES, INC., +1-714-447-4993, ext. 100,
cj_chan@chanandassoc.com, for ProStor System
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