Mountain View Data Joins Intel in First Public Multi Vendor iSCSI Storage Demonstration.

Business/High Tech Editors

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9 , 2001

Mountain View Data, Inc., a leading developer of networked storage software, announces the first public multi-vendor, interoperable demonstration of Internet SCSI, or iSCSI (transport protocol for SCSI that operates on top of TCP/IP) which will occur at Storage Networking World in Palm Desert, April 9-11 and will also occur at IEEE Conference on Mass Storage in San Diego, April 17-20.

Mountain View Data's contributing product to the demonstration, LinuxDisk, bridges the gap between legacy block devices and IP Storage. The demonstration showcases a collection of videos stored on iSCSI targets from multiple vendors and streamed to iSCSI clients for viewing. Ciprico and NetConvergence are also participating vendors in this demonstration. The most significant contribution of iSCSI is leveraging existing IP infrastructures. iSCSI instantly transforms an arbitrary IP network (LAN, MAN or WAN) into a Storage Area Network (SAN). This effort demonstrates the promise of the iSCSI transport protocol and the industry products now available to support this cost-effective IP storage technology.

"Mountain View Data is leading the way with high performance storage target software for next generation SANs, and are pleased to have an opportunity to demonstrate interoperability of iSCSI in our framework." said Dr. Peter J. Braam, CTO of Mountain View Data.

About Mountain View Data, Inc

Mountain View Data is a leading developer and provider of advanced storage software solutions that ensure the manageability, reliability, security, and high-availability of mission-critical data for the network attached storage NAS) and storage area network (SAN) markets. Mountain View Data's products deliver high performance and scalability, while enabling system integrators, service providers, and Internet data centers worldwide to use commodity-based hardware components that lower ownership costs. Mountain View Data's products include file system software for data replication(SyncFS), streaming media delivery (StreamFS), and snapshots (SnapFS).

Mountain View Data is also leading the Lustre Project to develop next generation storage technology that delivers scalable performance for even the most demanding data center requirements.

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company has offices in China and Japan. For further information visit www.mountainviewdata.com