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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., -- SGI, supplier of advanced data management solutions for high-performance computing and visualization environments, and Advanced Digital Information Corporation, supplier of Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions to the open systems market, announced the signing of a reseller alliance that will make ADIC's entire line of automated tape libraries available through SGI's worldwide sales force. The agreement makes the industry's most scalable line of tape automation products for workgroup, data center, and enterprise-wide applications available to SGI customers in industries such as sciences, energy, media, manufacturing and government and defense. ADIC's library solutions scale from 15 to more than 70,000 tape cartridges and are accessible from a single drive to several hundred drives in single or mixed-media configurations. Supported drive technologies include LTO, SDLT, DLT and AIT. All Scalar(R) series libraries also feature intelligent storage networking support that allows them to integrate directly into high- performance storage area networks, including the SGI SAN Server(TM) 1000 system, for storage consolidation applications and more reliable SAN backup. "ADIC Scalar libraries provide high-performance, scalable automated tape storage which is a perfect match for our customer set and an extremely beneficial addition to the SGI line of solutions for managing complex data," said Paul McNamara, vice president of product management at SGI. "ADIC offers the kind of capacity, intelligence and value needed to manage the dramatic increase in the volume of network data our customers in the technical and creative computing space frequently encounter." The new agreement covers the entire line of ADIC's intelligent libraries and enables the SGI sales force to work directly with the ADIC sales force. Today's agreement expands the existing relationship between the two companies, broadening its scope across all of SGI's vertical markets worldwide. "It makes sense for ADIC and SGI to work together to solve the most complex data storage problems, and we are pleased to be expanding our reseller alliance channel by adding SGI as a global partner," said Bill Britts, ADIC executive vice president of sales and marketing. "SGI and IRIX provide supercomputing-class performance to open systems compute applications, and the company has been one of the pioneers in expanding digital technology to new industries and applications." Worldwide, ADIC is the largest supplier of tape library solutions to the open systems market. Its tape library line is the broadest in the industry, supports the widest range of media types and is credited with introducing several important technical innovations to the market, including integrated intelligent support for Fibre Channel SANs, mixed-media operation and capacity-on-demand scalability. SGI is the industry's leading supplier of high-performance computing solutions to a broad range of applications, including science and engineering, advanced visualization and graphics, and rich media content development.