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SANTA CLARA, CA -- Auspex Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASPX), a provider of Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions, will be exhibiting at the Society Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) Annual Conference and Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas, from September 9-14, 2001. The company will showcase its new NS3000 series of network servers, which offer the industry's largest single-system capacity at 68 TB as well as architectural advantages that speed delivery of large seismic files. Auspex NetServers have been widely used in the petroleum E&P sector for many years, with installations from Murphy Oil and Dominion Energy in New Orleans to PEMEX in Mexico and TotalFinaElf in France and Africa. Representatives from Auspex's dedicated Energy Group will be available at the SEG show to discuss the company's: - New NS3000 network servers, featuring storage capacities of 500 GB to 68 TB on a single system. This scalability -- by far the highest in the industry -- allows petroleum companies and other enterprises to simplify administration by minimizing the number of file servers required. Extra storage capacity can be added without degrading performance. - Industry-leading performance, as established in SPECsfs97 benchmark testing. Those tests measured NFS throughput on a single-node NS3010 at 19,755 IOPS with RAID 0 and 18,293 IOPS with RAID 5 -- more than 20 percent faster than the latest file servers from other vendors. Speeds in full three-node configuration are expected to reach 46,900 IOPS. - Validation in Oracle database environments under the Oracle Storage Compatibility Program. Rigorous testing utilizing Oracle's NAS test suite has shown that Auspex's new network servers can reliably store and serve Oracle files. - Microsoft compatibility, based on tests confirming the reliability of Auspex NS3000 servers with Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Exchange Server 5.5, SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition and Internet Information Server 5.0. The tests were conducted by VeriTest, the sole authorized certification lab for applications running on Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server and Datacenter Server. - Architectural advantages for oil and gas applications, including a patented parallel processing architecture that expedites retrieval of large seismic files by employing parallel processors to separate read/write functions from data delivery. - Exclusive native cross-platform file sharing, enabling system administrators to manage mixed UNIX and Windows environments without maintaining two separate sets of data and without the performance penalties and security violations that can occur when emulation software is used to provide cross-platform file sharing. - Advanced high-speed backup, including an exclusive parallel local backup that greatly reduces backup time by allowing multiple backup jobs to run on parallel processors simultaneously. For more information visit www.auspex.com