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Syncsort Promotional Pricing Offer Supports NetApp's New Storage Solution for Midsized Enterprises

Syncsort offers discount on software bought with NetApp's new FAS2000 series

Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, September 13, 2007 – Syncsort is pleased to support NetApp's new FAS2000 series for Midsize Enterprises (MSE) with special promotional pricing for their data protection solution, Backup Express, when purchased with the FAS2000 series. "The combined NetApp/Syncsort solution offers superior end-to-end disaster recovery and business continuity for midsize enterprises at a great value," said Dan Regan, Syncsort's senior vice president.

This instance of support is the latest of many in the longstanding Syncsort / Network Appliance strategic partnership. The two companies work closely together to offer their joint customers the most advanced business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities.

Syncsort will offer Backup Express to eligible Network Appliance customers at the promotional discount of 25% MSRP throughout the promotional period. The promotion is available only to new Backup Express customers who have also purchased a NetApp FAS2000 series system and the discount applies to Backup Express product components only. The promotion runs from September 10, 2007 until January 31, 2008. This promotion is available in North America; details vary outside of North America. For more information, please visit www.syncsort.com/nam97xb.

About Backup Express
Syncsort Backup Express is a unique end-to-end software solution for enterprise data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity. It is engineered to meet the demands of today's SLAs for fast recovery (RTO) and current recovery points (RPO). Backup Express provides critical capabilities other products can't match: ExpressDR, which enables bare metal recovery in minutes, including operating system, settings, and application software; near-instant read/write access to SQL, Exchange, and Oracle – including mailboxes and tables – at any recovery point; as well as the ability to clone an Oracle database, of any size, in minutes. In addition, the Backup Express disk-to-disk-to-tape solution provides archiving to tape, with automated failover to tape in the event of a recovery interruption. Backup Express stands above the rest by delivering these unmatched capabilities fully integrated in a robust enterprise data protection system.

About Syncsort
Syncsort Incorporated is a leading developer of high-performance data protection and data management software for mainframe, UNIX, Linux and Windows environments. For nearly 40 years, Syncsort has built a reputation for superior product performance and reliable technical support. An independent market research firm has named Syncsort as one of the top Data Warehouse 100 Vendors for seven years in a row. Over 90 percent of the Fortune 100 companies are Syncsort customers, and Syncsort's products are used in more than 50 countries to protect data in distributed environments, provide complete DR solutions, speed data warehouse processing, and improve performance of data-intensive applications and processes. For more information, visit the Syncsort Web site at www.syncsort.com.

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