San Jose, Calif. — January 19, 2006 — Alacritech® Inc., the innovator of Dynamic TCP Offload™ technology that enables scalable networked systems, today announced the Alacritech SES2102ET iSCSI Accelerator was named Storage Hardware “Product of the Year” by SearchWinSystems.com. The Alacritech SES2102 iSCSI Accelerator was selected for the Gold award in the Storage Hardware category after being evaluated on innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality, and value. The “2005 Products of the Year” awards were judged by the SearchWinSystems.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants. Judges selected 15 “Products of Year” from among 175 enterprise Windows-related products that were introduced or significantly upgraded between September 30, 2004 and October 1, 2005.

“Alacritech realizes that servers require uncompromised I/O performance—the Alacritech SES2102ET enables systems to benefit from unconstrained storage access through iSCSI, ” said Joe Gervais, director, Product Management, Alacritech, Inc. “Considering the stiff competition in the Storage Hardware category, it is truly an honor to be named as the best product based on criteria such as innovation, functionality and performance by such a respected industry publication and demanding team of judges.”

About the Alacritech SES2102ET iSCSI Accelerator
The Alacritech SES2102ET is the industry’s first dual-port iSCSI controller with support for PCI Express and iSCSI boot. The Alacritech SES2102ET Accelerator is based on Alacritech’s patented Dynamic TCP Offload architecture, SLIC Technology, to deliver unmatched iSCSI performance and efficiency. The Accelerator has been independently tested and proven to enable more than twice the single-port transaction rate of existing ASIC-based iSCSI HBAs—providing over 54,000 transactions per second more than the next closest competitor. The Alacritech SES2102ET iSCSI Accelerators are the only iSCSI cards to offer native hardware acceleration for the Microsoft® iSCSI Software Initiator, failover support and system management functionality. With significantly greater performance and throughput, the Alacritech SES2102ET provides customers with the fastest and most efficient iSCSI interfaces for Windows®-based servers available today.

The Alacritech SES2102ET iSCSI Accelerator maximizes system performance and availability and is the only IP storage solution offering:

• Industry leading iSCSI performance with an ASIC-based TOE


• Seamless integration with Microsoft’s iSCSI Software Initiator


• In-band IP Storage Management protocol support with iSNS and SNMP


• Industry standard Ethernet link aggregation and failover


• Support for unified iSCSI boot using emBoot netBoot/i software

About SearchWinSystems.com
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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.