Topio Takes Advantage of Cisco MDS 9000 Series SANTap Service to Consolidate, Simplify and Manage Replication from the SAN Fabric

HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 2005--

Introducing the Only Fabric-Resident Solution to Ensure Recoverable Data at Any Scale

“Applications such as the Topio Data Protection Suite Fabric Edition that take advantage of the SANTap service can provide their customers with best-in-class solutions to consolidate, simplify and manage replication.”

Topio, (www.topio.com), the leading provider of enterprise software for business critical data replication and recovery, announced today Topio Data Protection Suite(TM) (TDPS) Fabric Edition. By taking advantage of unique capabilities provided by the Cisco MDS 9000 Series SANTap Service, TDPS Fabric Edition enables companies to consolidate, simplify and manage replication services from their storage area networks -- eliminating the requirement for replication software on application servers.

With this announcement, Topio is delivering the only solution in the industry today that allows replication from any number of switches and locations in the fabric, while maintaining a 100% consistent image of production data at the target site. This unique capability allows customers to ensure recoverability of business critical data as they scale across large SAN environments.

"Our customers have told us they need to deploy replication in the fabric wherever I/O load or growth requirements dictate," said Yoram Novick, President and CEO of Topio. "With other solutions, data consistency is limited to individual replication appliances or appliance clusters, requiring that you sacrifice scalability to maintain recoverability."

TDPS Fabric Edition is currently deployed at Beta sites and will be demonstrated in the Cisco pavilion at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany, March 10-16.

"We are running TDPS in a Cisco MDS 9000 storage environment and are very impressed," said Ted Byrne, Managing Director of Network Disaster Recovery Limited, a leading supplier of multi-platform disaster recovery services in the UK. "The Topio-Cisco combination is a powerful extension to our operational capabilities, giving NDR more flexibility in delivering bullet-proof recovery services while driving down costs."

"The Cisco SANTap Service allows 3rd-party storage applications to provide data continuity and data protection, without any of the traditional issues associated with deploying devices in the data-path," said Ed Chapman, Cisco senior director of product management. "Applications such as the Topio Data Protection Suite Fabric Edition that take advantage of the SANTap service can provide their customers with best-in-class solutions to consolidate, simplify and manage replication."

About TDPS Fabric Edition

The Topio Data Protection Suite (TDPS) is the leading enterprise-class replication solution for rapid, reliable and comprehensive recovery of your business critical data. TDPS Fabric Edition integrates with the MDS 9000 Storage Services Module SANTap API, to provide a high performance, out-of-band, SAN resident replication platform. With Fabric Edition you can continuously copy and protect your data over any distance -- with zero impact to your application servers. In the event of a disaster or production fail-over to your target site, TDPS enables immediate recovery of an up-to-the second image of your business -- that is 100% consistent with your production data -- no matter from where in your SAN the data is replicated. To simplify operations, Fabric Edition provides centralized visibility and control of all replication sessions across your Cisco MDS 9000 Series fabric as well as other storage architectures, all within a robust access control framework. Administrators can quickly define replication policies, delegate authority based on roles and manage environments at any level -- from an individual volume to an entire geographic location.

About the Cisco MDS 9000 Series SANTap Service

SANTap provides a "reliable copy" of storage write operations, enabling applications to provide functionality such as data continuity and data protection, online data migration and storage performance, and SLA monitoring, without the traditional drawbacks associated with deploying devices in-band within the data-path or out-of-band in conjunction with host-based software agents. SANTap functionality is enabled through the Storage Services Module (SSM) linecard which can be inserted into any modular switch within the Cisco MDS 9000 family of Multilayer Intelligent storage switches and Directors.

About Topio

Topio provides enterprise-class replication solutions for rapid, reliable and comprehensive recovery of your business critical data. Fortune 1000 companies worldwide depend on Topio for disaster recovery, backup consolidation and data migration. Topio is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with EMEA headquarters in London, UK.

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