San Jose, Calif. — July 14, 2003 — Alacritech®, Inc., the innovator of data acceleration solutions that enable the highest performance and efficiency in networked systems, today announced its industry leading accelerators have been certified ca smart with BrightStor ARCserve Backup and BrightStor Enterprise Backup solutions from Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). The solutions provide industry-leading performance in enterprise backup and recovery systems to enable data availability, reduced backup times and operational efficiency in storage networks.

“Alacritech accelerators are a key component in maintaining the shortest backup window possible in networked storage environments,” said Kim Peyser, senior vice president of Sales and Marketing, Alacritech, Inc. “Leveraging the integration between our complementary solutions, customers are ensured of proven solutions that enable the maximum performance, efficiency and reliability which leads to reduced overall IT costs.”

Alacritech’s accelerators are high performance TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) Network Interface Cards (TNICs) based on SLIC Technology, the company’s patented data-path offload and acceleration architecture. CA’s BrightStor data availability solutions offer industry leading data protection for servers, clients, databases and applications in network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) environments. Together, the Alacritech and BrightStor solutions deliver optimized performance, unlimited scalability and the management capabilities required to ensure data availability and reduce business downtime.

“We’ve had tremendous success with Alacritech accelerators in speeding the server performance in a local aircraft components manufacturer, and in many other customer data centers,” said Jack Tateel, vice president of Sales, Aberdeen, LLC, a storage and networking solutions reseller based in Santa Fe Springs, California. “We also have large installations of CA’s BrightStor ARCserve solutions and now with Alacritech accelerators’ ca smart certification, we are very much looking forward to recommending, selling and installing the products together to ensure a best-in-class implementation for our customers.”

ca smart solutions are certified to integrate seamlessly with CA’s industry-leading technologies, providing customers with substantial and immediate business benefits.

About CA’s BrightStor ARCserve Backup and BrightStor Enterprise Backups
CA’s BrightStor ARCServe Backup is the industry’s leading backup solution for heterogeneous departmental server environments and provides the data and storage availability, scalability, interoperability and superior management features necessary to address today’s eBusiness continuity challenges. CA’s BrightStor Enterprise Backup automates traditional backup and recovery tasks, significantly reducing the storage workload on IT operations staff. Its domain-based architecture and centralized management allow administrators to manage diverse enterprise-wide resources and maintain the security of eBusiness environments from a single location.

About Alacritech Acceleration Technology
As systems and servers move increasing amounts of network data, new solutions are needed to solve both efficiency and throughput challenges. Alacritech’s SLIC Technology supplements the TCP software control plane with distributed hardware data planes to optimize data delivery through Ethernet-based networks. This patented TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) architecture is the foundation of Alacritech's industry-leading TOE Network Interface Cards (TNICs) designed to accelerate data delivery.

Availability
Alacritech accelerators known as TOE NICs (TNICs) support Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 operating systems and are available now by calling 408.487.5720 or by visiting http://www.alacritech.com. CA’s BrightStor solutions are available by calling 877.246.3674 or by visiting http://ca.com. The solutions can also be purchased by contacting Aberdeen, LLC at 800.552.6868, option 1 or http://www.aberdeeninc.com.

About Alacritech, Inc.
Alacritech, Inc., led by industry visionary Larry Boucher, was founded to provide data acceleration solutions that enable the highest performance and efficiency in networked systems. Today, Alacritech is the first and only supplier of TCP Offload Engine (TOE) Network Interface Card (TNIC) solutions. 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 data delivery in servers, network-attached storage and iSCSI storage devices. SLIC Technology, the first fully compatible and scalable TOE technology, is being delivered in the industry's leading storage and server products. 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.

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