San Jose, Calif. — January 20, 2003 — Alacritech®, Inc., the innovator of network accelerator solutions that enable fast and efficient servers and storage systems, today announced a partnership with Mountain View Data, Inc., a provider of advanced network storage software. Alacritech's new TCP/IP accelerated drivers for Linux have been certified interoperable with Mountain View Data's MVD Powered NAS software, which will contain integrated support for the Alacritech TOE (TCP/IP offload engine) drivers. The companies will join to offer storage manufacturers an open, affordable alternative for developing customized high-performance file servers in multi-protocol client environments.

"Mountain View Data enables storage companies to speed the development of advanced network storage appliance solutions with enterprise-class reliability, robust scalability, and simplified management," said Cliff Miller, president and CEO, Mountain View Data, Inc. "Alacritech is a recognized leader in TOE, and integration of Alacritech's SLIC Technology® will enable that MVD Powered NAS provides optimum performance and remains competitive in a quickly changing market."

Alacritech accelerators are well known as the highest-performing TCP offload and acceleration technology in the industry and are the only cards capable of moving both file- and block-level traffic. The company's new Release 3 Linux drivers provide acceleration, link aggregation and failover for leading throughput and scalability for a wide range of storage applications such as NAS, iSCSI, backup and replication. The Mountain View Data and Alacritech products provide OEMs with high-performance and advanced features such as snapshot and online resizing to the PC platform, features that have typically only been available on proprietary hardware systems. In addition, MVD Powered NAS software will offer a custom-developed GUI interface for easy management and viewing of the Alacritech TOE.

"As a leading distributor of information technology in Japan and throughout Asia, we continue to see increasing demand from manufacturers for integration of Alacritech's TCP acceleration technology into the Mountain View Data NAS platform," said Shoichi Teshiba, director of marketing, Macnica Networks Company. "The efforts of Alacritech and Mountain View Data greatly simplify the development of an open, full-featured, high-performance NAS platform by our OEM customers."

About Mountain View Data MVD Powered NAS Software
MVD Powered NAS is an advanced operating system solution for network attached storage (NAS) appliances. It utilizes an advanced, modular architecture for the creation of customized high-performance file servers in multi-protocol client environments. MVD Powered NAS adopts MVD Snap, file-system snapshotting, as a core component to extend its Enterprise Ready journal file system, and offers modules for high-end functionality such as real-time synchronization and failover. In addition, custom integration of logical volume management adds the ability to seamlessly enlarge an active data partition online without loss of access to data. Disk space can be allocated on a user-by-user basis using a quota mechanism that works with file sharing protocols such as NFS (Unix), CIFS (Microsoft Windows), and Apple Talk (Macintosh).

About Alacritech Acceleration Technology
Alacritech's Gigabit Accelerators are based on the company's patented SLIC Technology, and are the only Integrated Storage Network Interface Cards (IS-NICs) capable of significantly accelerating both IP storage and standard Ethernet traffic. Alacritech's complete line of accelerators are based on SLIC Technology, a TCP/IP offload and acceleration architecture proven to deliver the most efficient, top-performing server and storage traffic acceleration possible. To eliminate the network throughput, compatibility and scalability issues associated with other TCP/IP offload engines, Alacritech's data-path TCP/IP offload enables data movement to be performed by the custom ASIC on the adapter, and TCP/IP connection management and error handling to be handled by the host software.

About Mountain View Data, Inc.
Mountain View Data, Inc. delivers advanced storage software for continuous online access and global delivery of business critical data. Top-tier server manufacturers, telecomm leaders and system integrators in Asia and the United States are integrating Mountain View Data software into their network storage products and services. Mountain View Data was established in October 2000, and has offices in San Francisco, Tokyo and Beijing. More information about Mountain View Data can be found at www.mountainviewdata.com.

About Alacritech, Inc.
Alacritech, Inc. was founded by Larry Boucher, creator of the SCSI interface, to deliver upon his vision of eliminating the server bottleneck. Today, Alacritech is the innovator of network accelerator solutions that enable fast and efficient servers and storage systems. Alacritech's complete line of high-performance server and storage accelerators is based on the company's patented SLIC (session-layer interface control) Technology to optimize the performance of servers, network-attached storage and iSCSI storage devices. SLIC Technology is the first fully compatible and scalable technology to offload network protocol processing, primarily TCP/IP, from software on the host system to silicon on the adapter. Based in San Jose, California, Alacritech is privately held. Alacritech is a member of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance and the Storage Networking Association (SNIA) and a founding member of the SNIA IP Storage Forum. For more information about Alacritech and its products, please visit the company's Web site at www.alacritech.com.

Alacritech, the Alacritech logo, SLIC Technology, and the SLIC Technology logo are registered trademarks of Alacritech, Inc. in the United States. Mountain View Data and MVD Powered NAS are trademarks of Mountain View Data, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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