Crossroads Signs Sun to Offer ReadVerify Appliance

Crossroads Systems, Inc. announced its partnership with global provider of
network computing infrastructure solutions, Sun Microsystems. This
partnership gives the opportunity for Sun to offer Crossroads
ReadVerify Appliance in France as part of their data protection
solutions.

Sun France Chooses to Offer Crossroads SurePath RVA to Guarantee the Recovery of Data Stored on Tapes

Corporations
are obligated to meet business, regulatory and compliancy standards,
which are driving ever-increasing data retention requirements in a
cost-effective manner. The use of tape media is an integral part of
corporate backup and archive strategies. Sun sought a powerful,
flexible and reliable solution to help its customers gain visibility,
understanding and pro-active alerts to ensure data recovery in a timely
and cost-effective manner as well as to improve tape drive utilization
and performance. Crossroads’ SurePath ReadVerify Appliance (RVA) is a
simple plug-and-play appliance that fully integrates with Sun’s
platform to ensure pro-active protection of business-critical
information by monitoring, alerting and reporting on the performance,
utilization, and health of tape libraries, drives and media. Already,
Crossroads RVA has been successfully installed and is fully operational
by Sun at various customer sites including a major airline manufacturer.

"Capitalizing
on our extensive market presence and business experience globally, Sun
delivers a premier portfolio of innovative and advanced storage
solutions" said Olivier Tordo, head of the Storage division at Sun
France. "As many of the most sensitive high-tech, financial and defense
organizations in France rely on Sun’s products and solutions for
ensuring access to critical business information, we feel confident
that by offering Crossroads ReadVerify Appliance our customers will
benefit from higher levels of data protection by addressing a problem
area neglected by most storage integrators. Crossroads RVA benefits all
companies and governmental organizations utilizing tape media by
ensuring the protection of their critical data infrastructure in a
unique, innovative and revolutionary manner."

Crossroads SurePath RVA Offers Simple, Reliable and High-Performance Data Protection

Crossroads’
SurePath ReadVerify Appliance (RVA) is a simple plug-and-play appliance
that monitors and reports on the performance, utilization, and health
of tape libraries, drives and media. As RVA proactively alerts and
provides detailed information on backup failure conditions, such as
tape media error rates or poorly performing tape drives. Customers gain
such high return-on-investments benefits that, within days, companies
can gain visibility to critical tape infrastructure and system
information which they did not have previously. Storage managers and
backup administrators can then take measures to improve the backup
environment and reduce costs substantially.

"Gaining Sun as an
official partner offering Crossroads ReadVerify Appliance is another
example of our successful market penetration in Europe," said David
Cerf, Executive Vice-President of Corporate and Business Development,
Crossroads Systems. "As Sun is a recognized leading provider of tape
libraries globally, we view this announcement, Sun France’s current
installations of Crossroads RVA and our lead opportunities as a great
market endorsement".

Sun France Sells Three Crossroads RVA Solutions

Sun is offering three models of ReadVerify Appliance in France:

• RV50f offers alerting and reporting on tape libraries of 50 slots or less
• RV100f proactively monitors mid-sized tape libraries of 100 to 1500 slots
• RV200f verifies data readability on enterprise-class libraries of 2000 slots and more

Sun
Microsystems, Inc.

Crossroads Systems, Inc.