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Crossroads Systems Partners With Bull to Deliver Data Protection in Over 100 Countries

(Oct 18, 2007)-- Crossroads Systems, provider of data protection and Business Information Assurance (BIA) solutions, announced its new partnership with one of the world’s largest technological pioneers and most reputable European-based Storage Solutions provider, Bull, through which they will market Crossroads data protection solutions.

THE PROBLEM: Data loss; Corporations are obligated to meet regulatory and health compliancy standards, which are driving ever-increasing data retention requirements. Tape backups are an integral part of corporate backup strategies. However, it is estimated that 33 percent of data written to tape media cannot be recovered. Bull sought a powerful, flexible and highly-secured solution to help its customers meet business and compliance requirements for data recovery in a timely and cost-effective manner.

THE SOLUTION: Bull selects Crossroads SurePath RVA; Crossroads’ SurePath ReadVerify Appliance (RVA) is a simple plug-and-play appliance that monitors and verifies the readability of data written to tape. As RVA proactively alerts and reports on the potential tape media degradation and the overall health of a backup environment, customers gain such high return-on-investments benefits that, within days, companies can self-justify purchase costs through substantial overall IT cost reductions.

With more than 40 years of expertise in research, development and deployment, Bull is announcing that it has selected Crossroads for its advanced StoreWay data protection solutions as Bull’s tape media storage verification solution. Given the ease of use of Crossroads ReadVerify Appliance and its extensive market needs, RVA will initially be sold by Bull to its customers who are spread across more than 100 countries.

Just as Europe’s leading high-technology, financial and defense organizations rely on Bull’s trusted expertise to protect their most sensitive and business-critical information, Bull sought a reliable tape assurance solution from a reputable vendor. Crossroads, a leading data protection provider with a solid track record, has continuously delivered robust, affordable and high-performance solutions globally.

Bull sees RVA as a important addition to it’s StoreWay portfolio of data protection products. Crossroads’ ReadVerify Appliance gives Bull’s customers valuable insight on the performance of their tape drives, highlighting performance and/or drive utilization issues. Being able to monitor the use and performance gives customers comprehensive tools to diagnose backup problems, and allows for improvement of a customer’s backup window. Additionally, RVA provides a view of drive and media errors, and will alert customers when problems begin to surface. In this way, Bull’s customers can proactively manage backup assets and correct problems before they result in data loss.

“Given Bull’s extensive customer-base and its recognized storage expertise, we believe that this significant agreement will greatly enhance the end-customer satisfaction, industry leadership and corporate growth of both companies, resulting in a very successful, financially-rewarding, long-lasting and expanding relationship,” said Herbert Grau, Executive Vice-President, Crossroads Systems.

Crossroads ReadVerify Appliance is a non-intrusive, high-performance and highly-reliable appliance verifying and monitoring the overall health of physical backup environments. As tape degradation is inevitable and compliance requirements such as HIPAA, SOX and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) on electronically stored information (ESI) demand successful restoration and recovery of data, RVA is one of the only affordable solutions that proactively notifies IT administrators of physical backup environment degradation prior to backup failure.

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