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CNT Enables Compliance Solution for Financial Services Firm's Mission-Critical Information

Posted on: Thursday, 14 April 2005, 09:00 CDT

MINNEAPOLIS, April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CNT(R) , the global expert in storage networking solutions, today announced they have won a $1 million contract from an Eastern United States diversified financial services organization to implement a disaster recovery solution for their mission-critical trading application. The disaster recovery solution will allow the end user to meet Federal requirements for protecting critical information and decrease their recovery time.

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The contract includes multiple UltraNet Edge Storage Routers, UltraNet Multi-service Directors (UMD), UltraNet Storage Directors - eXtended (USD - X), along with remote management, implementation and maintenance services. The customer chose CNT because of their expertise in overcoming the challenges of implementing an extended disk and tape solution in a mixed ESCON and FICON environment. CNT's knowledge of these environments and how to migrate from ESCON to FICON will allow this customer to implement the mirroring solution today and have the ability to migrate to an exclusive FICON environment later.

This business also needed to maintain tight recovery windows in order to remain competitive and meet Federal requirements for data protection. CNT's solution will allow this customer to meet stringent recovery windows, while also ensuring that their trading records are safe and secure. The disaster recovery site will be located over 600 miles away from their corporate headquarters.

"Customers rely on CNT for our expertise in extending and protecting their most mission-critical information," said Tom Hudson, CNT's President and CEO. "This recent win highlights how we can best serve customers with complete solutions: we can extend their information across any distance through our UltraNet Edge and USD-X products as well as provide a large scale director, the UMD, for mixed mainframe and open systems environments. And our services give customers the reliability and complete solution they've come to rely on from CNT."

About UltraNet Extension Products:

CNT's UltraNet Storage Director - eXtended is a high-speed multi-protocol director platform that supports all storage related applications, both disk and tape. The platform is designed to support the latest high-speed interfaces, including Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, OC-12 (622 Mbps) ATM/SONET and FICON. The platform also supports prevalent legacy interfaces, including ESCON, Bus & Tag, Fast Ethernet, OC-3 ATM/SONET and others, providing a single platform capable of supporting any disk, tape and system connectivity requirement for all remote solutions, local and remote. The award winning UltraNet Edge Storage Router interconnects and extends Fibre Channel and FICON data center networks across campus or across the globe, enabling flexible, cost-effective, enterprise-wide storage infrastructures that improve data availability and make business continuity achievable.

About UltraNet Multi-service Director

With over 200 units shipped, the UltraNet Multi-service Director is the only true multi-service director on the market. This new generation storage networking platform delivers unprecedented scalability, flexibility, and investment protection to meet dynamic and evolving business requirements for IT strategies like SAN and storage consolidation, tiered storage, and Data Lifecycle Management. The UMD features the UltraScale(TM) architecture, which offers scalability up to and beyond 512 non-blocking ports at 4 Gbps speed and the flexibility to upgrade as speeds and protocols evolve.

About CNT

CNT is the expert in today's most cost-effective and reliable storage networking solutions. For over 20 years, businesses around the world have depended on us to improve business efficiency, increase data availability and manage their business-critical information. CNT applies its technology, products and expertise in open storage networking architecture and business continuity to help companies build end-to-end solutions consisting of analysis, planning and design, multi-vendor integration, implementation and ongoing remote management of the SAN or storage infrastructure. For more information, visit CNT's web site at http://www.cnt.com/ or call 763-268-6000.

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CONTACT: Jennifer Weidauer of CNT, +1-763-268-8367,jennifer_weidauer@cnt.com ; or Mark Shapiro of Davis-Marrin Communications,+1-858-573-0736, mshapiro@davismarrin.com

Web site: http://www.cnt.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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