Sepaton Enterprise Data Protection Solution Named a Finalist in the Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com 2012 Products of the Year

MARLBOROUGH, MA - January 23, 2013 - Sepaton, Inc., maker of the world's fastest backup and recovery solution, today announced that its S2100^®-ES3 Series 2922 has been selected by the editors of TechTarget's Storage Media Group as a 2012 "Data Storage Products of the Year Finalist" in the backup hardware category.

"It is a privilege to be named as a finalist for the 'Data Storage Products of the Year award', a highly-regarded award for product excellence," said Amy Lipton, senior vice president, Sepaton, Inc. "Sepaton's high-performance enterprise data protection systems are specifically designed for the data intensive environments of large enterprises. As such, we are the vendor of choice for many of the world's largest businesses, including Fortune 500 companies and other leading brands across industries such as retail, financial services, telecommunications, government agencies and more, that backup petabytes of data."

The S2100 was one of fifty-two enterprise data storage systems products from 170 entries in six categories chosen as a finalist in the 2012 Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Products of the Year competition.   Criteria for selection was based on demonstrated technical innovation, solid value, practical functionality, performance, ease of integration into existing data storage infrastructures, and ease of use and manageability.

The Product of the Year awards, are judged by the Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com editorial staff in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants. They honor the best storage products for enterprise IT professionals, based on innovation, performance, ease of integration, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value. The winners in each category will be announced in the February issue of Storage magazine.

Sepaton's S2100-ES3 series system scales to 2 PB usable capacity in a single system (before dedupe) and ingests at an industry-leading rate of up to 43 TB per hour. Sepaton's DBeXstream database deduplication software optimizes backup capacity and performance with support for up to 16 simultaneous database backup/restore channels. DBeXstream handles multiplexed, multistreamed data and can find duplicates in separate parallel backup streams and across multiplexed data volumes.

About Sepaton, Inc.

Sepaton delivers the world's fastest enterprise backup and recovery solution. It is designed specifically for enterprise IT organizations that manage extremely large and growing volumes of data, that must be backed up within tight time windows - every time, guaranteed - and that require the fastest possible recovery in the event of a failure. Sepaton's patented scale-out DeltaScale™ architecture enables high performance and modular expansion to enable centralized protection of massive data volumes. Sepaton is the safe choice for large enterprise.

 Sepaton is headquartered in Marlborough, MA, and has an international office in London. For additional information call 866-Sepaton or visit http://www.Sepaton.com.

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