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Exabyte VXA-2 Packet Tape Drives Selected to Provide Data Backup and Retrieval for Fujitsu's PRIMERGY Servers

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 January 2004, 06:00 CST

Exabyte Corporation (OTCBB:EXBT), a performance and value leader in tape backup systems, today announced an agreement with Fujitsu Limited, a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace, to offer internal VXA-2 Packet Tape Drives for its PRIMERGY line of Intel(R) architecture (IA) servers.

PRIMERGY servers are available globally and provide solution platforms for data centers, Internet access, Web hosting, application performance and high availability computing.

"The new VXA-2 Packet Tape Drive offers a cost-effective solution for PRIMERGY server customers looking for the most reliable tape product on the market," stated Jitsuo Masuda, General Manager, IA Server Division of Fujitsu Limited. "As Fujitsu continues to offer more powerful servers at affordable prices it's important that we remain focused on the varied and changing requirements of our customers. This advanced tape drive based upon packet technology supports Ultra 2 low-voltage differential (LVD) SCSI connections and provides convenience and ease of use features. VXA-2 Packet technology enables us to deliver the best capacity, reliability, durability and price-performance in its class to our customers."

"Fujitsu's selection of VXA-2 Packet Tape Drives for its PRIMERGY server line demonstrates the rapidly growing acceptance of VXA-2 technology as the storage solution best suited to meet the demanding data backup and retrieval needs of enterprise and SME customers," commented Jalin Anderson, Vice President and Managing Director of Exabyte Asia Pacific. "Fujitsu is an industry leader in the manufacturing and marketing of high performance computer storage systems and multimedia products, and we will benefit greatly from this relationship."

"This agreement represents an exciting opportunity for Exabyte to dramatically increase its sales volume in Japan and Asia Pacific as a whole," said Tom Ward, president and CEO of Exabyte. "Fujitsu is a dominant player in the Japan and Asia Pacific markets, particularly in the business-class server segment, and we are excited to have VXA-2 Tape Drives offered on the PRIMERGY server line."

Fujitsu is the latest major OEM to endorse VXA-2 as the data backup, restore and archiving technology with the best performance, capacity, data integrity, automation support and price in its class. VXA-2 dramatically increases the capacity and performance available to tape users and provides an excellent migration path from DDS Tape Technology and other outdated backup technologies at similar pricing for drives and media. The VXA-2 drive can record up to 160 GB to a single cartridge at a data transfer rate of up to 12 MB/second -- which is 4x the capacity and 2x the speed of DDS-4 and 2x the capacity and 2x the speed of DAT-72. VXA-2 also delivers full read and write compatibility with VXA-1, protecting the investment of users who have already chosen VXA technology.

For more information about VXA-2, visit www.exabyte.com/products/ or www.exabyte-asiapacific.com.

About VXA Tape Technology

Exabyte's award-winning VXA Packet Technology is the most significant advancement in tape storage technology in the last decade. VXA Packet Tape products offer a unique combination of greater capacity, faster data transfer rates and dramatically superior data reliability than other tape formats in its class, all at comparable prices. VXA Packet Technology offers far superior data reliability than any other tape technology, enabled by its innovative read/write "packet" architecture -- "extreme" tested to provide 100 percent data restore. Also, the published VXA roadmap currently extends through four successive generations, consistently doubling capacity and speed every two years while holding pricing level and maintaining backward compatibility, thus ensuring long-term protection of users' investments in drives and media. VXA Packet Drives are also available in Exabyte's rugged and robust autoloaders and 430 library, designed to meet customers growing need for the efficiency and convenience of automation. VXA Packet Drives have now been selected by many OEMs, including Fujitsu Siemens and IBM, providing a definitive endorsement of VXA Packet solutions as the new standard for tape storage in its class.

About Exabyte Corporation

Exabyte Corporation (OTCBB:EXBT) provides innovative tape storage solutions to customers whose top buying criteria is value: capacity/price, speed, data reliability and ease-of-use. Exabyte, an industry innovator since 1987, is the recognized value-leader in tape storage and automation solutions for servers, workstations, LANs and SANs. With groundbreaking VXA Packet Technology, the most significant advancement in tape in the last decade, Exabyte's VXA-2 solutions provide SMB and departmental users dramatically higher capacity, speed and data reliability at competitive prices. Exabyte's drives and automation products are rugged, robust and reliable solutions for users of VXAtape(TM), LTO(TM) (Ultrium(TM)) and MammothTape(TM). Exabyte has a worldwide network of OEMs, distributors and resellers that share the company's commitment to value and customer service, including partners such as IBM, HP, Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Apple Computer, Toshiba, Logitec, Kontron, Imation, Tech Data, Ingram Micro, CDW and Arrow Electronics. For additional information, call 1-800-EXABYTE or visit www.exabyte.com. For investor relations inquiries, contact Kelly Beavers at investor@exabyte.com

Data capacities and transfer rates for VXA drives assume a compression ratio of two-to-one. Actual compression will vary depending on the nature of the data and the drive and media quality.

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