i365, A Seagate Company, Endorses Next Generation of Microsoft Products as Platinum Sponsor of Microsoft Efficiency Launch

i365 Delivers Increased Productivity and Efficiency for EVault Data Protection,
Analytics and Storage Solutions with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
i365, Inc., A Seagate Company (NASDAQ:STX) and a Microsoft Gold Certified
Partner, today announced that it is a Platinum Sponsor of the Microsoft
Efficiency Launch. As a platinum sponsor, i365 is partnering with Microsoft to
support the introduction of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft
Exchange Server 2010 and communicate the benefits of these new products to its
customers. i365`s data protection and disaster recovery solutions are optimized
for the Microsoft platform and i365 is working closely with Microsoft Corp. to
deliver improved performance and enhance a user`s ability to navigate, search,
visualize and interact with data.

"Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010 are significant releases
and represent an inflection point for another level of productivity for our
on-premise and cloud-based EVault data protection, analytics, and storage
customers," said Terry Cunningham, general manager of i365. "Our products
capitalize on the new features and functionality in these Microsoft offerings to
make it even easier to interact with our solutions and improve performance."

With the explosive growth of business critical data, it has become essential to
find new and improved ways to manage, review and interact with data to improve
knowledge worker efficiency. As a software developer, this new line of Microsoft
products provides i365 with new capabilities for improving the user experience.
Features such as touch, gesture and voice recognition capabilities enable i365
customers to more quickly and easily process information and manage
applications.

Improving network performance utilization is also of key importance to both i365
and Microsoft customers as data links are of finite bandwidth and represent
significant ongoing costs. Improvements in bandwidth management through
technologies such as i365`s DeltaPro and Microsoft`s BranchCache enable upgraded
application designs to improve overall performance and actually save customers
money by reducing the associated demand on their IT infrastructures. DeltaPro
technology, for example, utilizes block level data deduplication to back up only
the changed blocks in the data, not entire files, meaning that less data is
moved across the network. This is critical for branch or remote offices that
want to centralize backups as well as for cloud-based data protection solutions.
Similarly, the BranchCache technology in Windows Server 2008 R2 improves
WAN-based application performance. With BranchCache technology, when a file is
requested in a branch or remote office location, local servers communicate to
determine if the file is already present or a server in the office is designated
as a caching machine, so that a locally pre-existing file never has to travel
between offices eliminating unnecessary network traffic and improving
performance.

"Today`s businesses require fast, around-the-clock access to business
information," said Eric Jewett, director, Windows Server and Tools Services
Division, Microsoft Corp. "Our relationship with i365 provides our joint
customers with a streamlined computing experience, giving them the powerful
abilities to view, manipulate and analyze their data in a user-friendly way."

About i365

i365, A Seagate Company, provides proven solutions for the protection, retention
and management of electronic information. Trusted by over 22,000 customers, our
innovative software-, appliance- and cloud-based EVault technologies form
solutions to solve organizations` most rigorous compliance and data management
problems. Our solutions address the complexity of explosive data growth, the
challenge of maintaining high availability of critical business systems, and the
increasing demands of regulatory compliance. www.i365.com.

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