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SANTA CLARA, CA -- DataDirect Networks, a leading provider of the world's highest performance storage networking appliances, will be presenting the real-world results of appliance-based infrastructures when Dov Cohen from Sandia National Laboratories joins DataDirect's Bob Woolery at Network Storage 2002. The presentation is part of the "The IT Manager's Challenge" session, to be held on the afternoon of June 18 at the Marriott Hotel in Santa Clara. Cohen, a senior member of Sandia's technical staff, will discuss efficient movement of Terabytes of information through appliance-based SAN, LAN and WAN infrastructures. "As the demand to deliver high throughput, low-latency network performance to users and applications becomes greater, the disparity between physical bandwidth and deliverable end-to-end bandwidth continues to be one of the most challenging problems faced in building networks," Robert Woolery, vice president, DataDirect Networks, said. "The work that Sandia is doing to advance storage over IP using off-the-shelf technology to create blended environments is an intriguing and compelling use of Silicon Storage Appliance technology." "With the Network Storage Conference It is our goal that attendees will return enlightened, educated and inspired about the impact that storage technology is having on the way they do business," Farid Neema, president, Peripheral Concepts, Inc., a multi-faceted computer and mass storage consulting and market research company, and conference organizer, said. "With storage technology having become more critical than ever to business, our session with Sandia National Laboratories and DataDirect promises to bring attendees an interesting and intriguing real-world look on high throughput networks and how business can efficiently move data through these new architectures." DataDirect Networks has created highly scalable, simple-to-deploy and easy-to-manage Silicon Storage Appliances to accelerate application performance, simplify information management, and lower operating costs. Silicon Storage Appliance technology allows the businesses to accelerate their applications, providing data at least three times faster than existing Storage Area Networking (SAN) solutions and ten times faster than Network Attached Storage (NAS) technology. The acceleration of data to applications and users -- simply and easily -- allows DataDirect Networks' customers to consolidate their storage; the Silicon Storage Appliance technology allows management of up to 100 Terabytes by a single system administrator, providing 10x lower total cost of ownership. With the ability to supply an aggregate bandwidth of 800 megabytes per second and support up to 512 servers and 180 terabytes of storage, the S2A 6000 Silicon Storage Appliance brings performance and scalability benefits to scientific and commercial supercomputing centers. The S2A 3000, based on enterprise-class S2A 6000 technology, brings a simple to deploy, easy to manage and affordable storage network appliance that supplies an aggregate bandwidth up to 400 megabytes per second (depending on requirements) to workgroups typically consisting of one to eight Linux, Unix, Windows NT/2000, Sun, AIX, HP-UX and SGI compute nodes. The S2A 3000 can easily manage storage network environments ranging in capacity from 500GB to 7 Terabytes. Customers using DataDirect's Silicon Storage Appliances include Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, NASA, NCSA, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, U.S. Army Research Lab, White Sands Missile Range, National Century Financial Enterprises, Time Warner Cable, E! Networks, CineGroupe, RTL Television, CardioNow, Loudeye, Star TV, Sonic Foundry, among others. DataDirect SAN partnerships include industry leaders VERITAS Software, Seagate, Emulex and QLogic, among others. More information on Network Storage 2002 can be found at www.networkstorageconference.com.