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February 08, 2008

SGI, BakBone Software Ink OEM Agreement

BakBone's NetVault: Replicator to provide real-time data replication capabilities for SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS family

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 6 -- SGI today announced that it has entered into an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with BakBone Software. BakBone's replication software, NetVault: Replicator, has been chosen by SGI as the replication technology to power SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS solutions. In addition to the BakBone replication software OEM agreement, SGI EMEA Professional Services is announcing a reseller agreement for BakBone's backup and recovery software, NetVault: Backup.

SGI chose NetVault: Replicator based on BakBone's continued leadership in data protection solutions for Linux environments. BakBone's data protection products offer the broadest Linux capabilities in the storage management market and NetVault: Replicator recently won the Storage Awards'2007 Storage Replication Product of the Year. NetVault: Replicator will offer continuous, byte-level data replication across SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS and heterogeneous IT environments over standard IP networks.

As part of the agreement, SGI will include NetVault: Replicator with each SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS platform shipped worldwide. The agreement will also include:

BakBone support for the SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS solutions.
BakBone and SGI collaboration to provide tighter integration between SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS and NetVault: Replicator in future releases of the SGI InfiniteStorage Appliance Manager.

"BakBone's NetVault: Replicator brings additional out-of-the-box functionality to the SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS solution," said Raj Das, vice president of Storage Marketing, SGI. "By combining a very scalable, standards-based storage platform with an extremely efficient byte-level replication solution, we can provide the much needed functionality, performance and reduced complexity for our business, scientific and digital media customers."

"We are pleased that SGI has chosen NetVault: Replicator as a solution for their customers to easily and cost effectively protect and distribute business critical data stored on SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS platforms," said David Schneider, vice president of Strategic Partners Group, BakBone. "We share a common vision of delivering solutions to the market based on industry standards, such as Linux."

SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS solutions combine high performance and scalability with appliance-like simplicity. Each shared-storage platform efficiently scales in storage capacity, file directory size, and performance by providing base platform options that can support the exponential data growth for today's business and digital media application workload.

Combined with BakBone's NetVault: Replicator functionality, SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS solution solves critical customer needs in areas such as:

High Availability -- Solves stringent data availability requirements, even over long distances by offering continuous, byte-level replication and cluster failover support.
Research -- Simplifies replication of research-critical data to secondary systems, preserving and protecting primary research data.
Digital Content Distribution -- Distributes and protects large digital media assets stored on SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS-based Digital Media Servers, or Media Asset management systems.
Data Asset Consolidation/Migration -- Streamlines migration of data assets from legacy storage devices to SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS, or for remote data consolidation to a centralized SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS.
Test and Development -- Automates replication of production data to other SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS-based non-production systems for test & development environments or decision support applications.

NetVault: Replicator is available immediately as part of the SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS family through SGI and SGI authorized resellers worldwide. For more detailed descriptions of the SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS family, go to www.sgi.com/products/storage/nas/nexis/.

About SGI

SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) is a leader in high-performance computing. SGI delivers a broad range of high-performance server, storage and visualization solutions along with industry-leading professional services and support that enable its customers to overcome the challenges of complex data-intensive workflows and accelerate breakthrough discoveries, innovation and information transformation. SGI helps customers solve significant challenges whether it's enhancing the quality of life through drug research, designing and manufacturing safer and more efficient cars and airplanes, studying global climate change, providing technologies for homeland security and defense, or helping enterprises manage large data. With offices worldwide, the company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and can be found on the Web at www.sgi.com.

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Source: SGI

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