SEPATON Receives Frost & Sullivan’s North American Technology Innovation Award for Data Deduplication Software

MARLBOROUGH, MA -- September 9, 2009 -- SEPATON, Inc., the leader in enterprise-class disk-based data protection solutions, today announced that it has been named the recipient of the 2009 Frost & Sullivan North American Technology Innovation Award in the field of Data Deduplication Software in recognition of its groundbreaking efforts in the development of its DeltaStor® software.

"When compared to other approaches, DeltaStor's fundamental design overshadows the capabilities of existing technologies by providing more efficient deduplication and enterprise scalability of both performance and capacity," said Frost & Sullivan Analyst Sam Achyuthanandan. "Its unique approach to deduplication enables it to identify duplicate data at the byte-level for optimal capacity reduction. Unlike other deduplication solutions, DeltaStor processing can be load balanced across multiple processing nodes and does not slow backup or restore performance. DeltaStor is also unique in that it maintains an intact copy of the most recent backup for instantaneous restores without the need for reassembly."

Built with the SEPATON DeltaScale™ scale-out architecture, DeltaStor deduplication software analyzes the content of backup data and uses built-in intelligence to find duplicate data with unprecedented efficiency. Enterprises can leverage the features of DeltaStor to store more data online at a cost that is comparable to a physical tape system.

"SEPATON's DeltaStor deduplication software incorporates a powerful forward referencing technology that uses the most recent backup as the baseline for comparison," said Jack Fegreus, managing director, openBench Labs. "As a result, DeltaStor can restore the most recent backups with little or no reassembly. This strategy provides outstanding performance and near linear scalability in backup and restore operations.  What's more, using a forward pointing deduplication scheme, DeltaStor continually evaluates all stored backup jobs. It is that continuous deduplication scheme that ensures optimal utilization of deduplication resources. It compares data first at the object level to find potentially duplicate data. It then examines this subset of data at the byte level for maximum efficiency."

Frost & Sullivan's Technology Innovation Award is presented each year to the company that has demonstrated excellence in new products and technologies within its industry.  This award recognizes the quality and depth of a company's research and development program as well as the vision and risk-taking that enabled it to undertake such an endeavor.

"Frost & Sullivan strongly believes that SEPATON, Inc. is moving in the right direction in developing a unique technology that offers significant advantages for end users," noted Achyuthanandan.  "DeltaStor has distinctive capabilities for improving performance and providing superior capacity efficiency. Frost & Sullivan is pleased to recognize SEPATON, Inc., with the 2009 North American Technology Innovation Award."

"To deal with our customers insatiable appetite for retaining and protecting information assets, SEPATON has developed a next-generation data deduplication platform that enables companies to gain considerable cost savings and compelling value by increasing efficiency of backup and restore operations," said Jay Kramer, vice president of worldwide marketing, SEPATON, Inc. "We are proud to be the recipient of this prestigious award, which recognizes DeltaStor as a superior approach to addressing exponential data growth, cutting backup times, delivering faster restores and providing an innovative data protection strategy to the marketplace."

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About SEPATON, Inc.
SEPATON is the only disk-based data protection company with a scale-out backup and recovery system built to achieve the performance and capacity requirements of the most data intensive organizations. Built on our patented scale-out architecture, SEPATON products enable data-intensive enterprises to deduplicate, back up, replicate, and restore petabytes of data at wire speed without disruption to their existing infrastructure. As a result, these products provide the most return on their investment in backup technology. For additional information call 866-SEPATON or visit http://www.sepaton.com.

Contact:
Beth Winkowski
SEPATON, Inc.
978-649-7189
bwinkowski@sepaton.com

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