San Jose, Calif. — January 16, 2006 — Alacritech® Inc., the innovator of Dynamic TCP Offload™ technology that enables scalable networked systems, today announced a partnership with emBoot Inc., a supplier of network boot products, to provide netBoot/i software to Alacritech customers. Alacritech Accelerators have been qualified, and natively support netBoot/i, to enable Windows®-based servers utilizing Alacritech Accelerators and netBoot/i to boot directly from iSCSI-based storage, accelerating the server provisioning process. With this solution, users are assured of fast and efficient recovery of entire systems, significantly simplified system management tasks, and reduced costs in IP SAN environments.

“By natively supporting emBoot’s netBoot/i software on Alacritech Accelerators, customers can now implement a comprehensive and uniform boot infrastructure for their iSCSI SANs, ” said Joe Gervais, director, Product Management, Alacritech, Inc. “Combining the performance and efficiency of Alacritech Accelerators with netBoot/i offers IT managers the best of both worlds – fast, efficient IP SAN connectivity and seamless iSCSI booting for all their Windows-based servers.”

Customers using Alacritech Accelerators with native support for netBoot/i software receive a number of benefits from the iSCSI boot solution including:

• A common iSCSI boot infrastructure for iSCSI controllers as well as NICs to allow a single qualification and easier administration;


• Dynamic network-based updates for any new iSCSI bootstrap changes, which reduces IT support costs by centralizing boot administration;


• Network-based administration with centralized boot volume assignment, which allows rapid disaster recovery of failed server hardware;


• Teaming support for boot volume to provide fault tolerant boot volume access.

“emBoot’s partnership with Alacritech will enable Alacritech customers to dramatically improve the server re-purposing process, increase utilization of storage resources and virtualize operating system volume data storage,” said George Kostiuk, founder, emBoot Inc. “Servers utilizing Alacritech Accelerators with support for netBoot/i can now leverage the disaster recovery benefits of iSCSI boot which provides flexibility and cost reductions to businesses of all sizes.”

About Alacritech Accelerators
The Alacritech SEN2000 family of TNICs and the SES2000 family of iSCSI controllers each consist of eight models that are available in copper or fiber versions, and range between one and four ports with support for either the PCI-X or PCIe bus. Both product lines support iSCSI boot to enable diskless systems to perform iSCSI boot from an IP SAN. Alacritech Accelerators support Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows 2000. All Alacritech Accelerators are based on the company’s proven SLIC Technology architecture to deliver unmatched performance and efficiency. All Alacritech products offer industry-standard failover and link aggregation. For more information on iSCSI boot with Alacritech Accelerators, please visit http://www.alacritech.com/Resources/WhitePapers/Default.aspx.

About emBoot netBoot/i
emBoot’s netBoot/i is a software solution to network boot from iSCSI storage using standard Ethernet adapters and TNICs supporting PXE. netBoot/i provides the ability to network boot Windows-based servers and desktops from an iSCSI target remotely located over a standard IP network using any combination of NICs and offload devices. netBoot/i includes a Windows software initiator driver, a system snapshot tool for copying local boot volumes to iSCSI targets and all the necessary server components to set up an iSCSI network boot environment. netBoot/i supports CHAP authentication, shared boot volumes, target redirection, and conforms to the internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) standards.

About emBoot Inc.
emBoot provides network boot products that significantly reduce the cost and complexity of administrating servers, desktops, POS terminals and embedded systems. Worldwide, millions of networked devices boot using emBoot products. For more information, please visit www.emBoot.com.

About Alacritech, Inc.
Alacritech, Inc. is the world’s leading supplier of standards-based scalable networking technology and solutions that enable the highest performance and efficiency in networked systems. As the first to envision a dynamic network protocol processing architecture that enables systems to scale to address ever increasing data and network speeds, Alacritech developed and patented the SLIC Technology® architecture. Alacritech’s complete line of Accelerators, based on this architecture, optimize data delivery in servers, network-attached storage and iSCSI storage devices. SLIC Technology, the basis of industry-accepted TOE solutions, ships in storage and server products worldwide. Alacritech is a privately held company based in San Jose, California. For more information about Alacritech and its products, please visit the company’s Web site at www.alacritech.com.