SEPATON Named Tech Awards Circle Winner

SEPATON S2100 Data Protection Appliance Selected Among Top Technology Products for 2010

MARLBOROUGH, MA – July 13, 2010 – SEPATON, Inc., the leader in enterprise-class disk-based data protection solutions, today announced it has been selected as a winner of the Tech Awards Circle, taking bronze in the Midrange Hardware category for the SEPATON S2100® data protection appliance with DeltaStor® deduplication software. Winners were selected by an independent circle of publication reviewers/journalists from nominations based on a broad range of achievements – from product and technology innovations to talented executive leadership and engineering innovators.

Tech Awards Circle celebrates the products, services, vendors and individuals making a difference in the industry today. The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange, and enterprise markets. Gold, silver and bronze awards were given out in each category.

“Despite overwhelmingly strong competition, SEPATON exhibited true industry excellence to be recognized among the top of the Tech Awards Circle,” said Kevin Anderson, awards program coordinator. “Our judges were pleased at the level of submissions from all the vendors entering this year’s competition, so to be named a winner of this prestigious award is a testament to the quality and innovation unrivaled in the high tech community.”

“This award underscores our commitment to deliver the industry’s best backup and restore performance and advanced deduplication in a simple, cost-saving data protection appliance,” said Jay Kramer, vice president of worldwide marketing, SEPATON, Inc. “SEPATON’s unique grid scalability and single platform design enables customers to start with an MS2 appliance and scale up to eight nodes in an ES2 appliance with deduplication to protect petabytes in a single system.”

The SEPATON S2100-MS2 with DeltaStor deduplication software features a dual node scalable system with an entry capacity of 36 TB raw and 30 TB usable and a maximum capacity of 192 TB raw and 160 TB usable. It performs at an ingest speed of 1,200 MB/sec. It is designed to provide a simple, cost-effective way to implement enterprise-class backup and deduplication in a data center. For one affordable price, the MS2 VTL with DeltaStor data deduplication delivers industry leading performance, enterprise scalability, and advanced capacity optimization.

More information about Tech Awards Circle, including the full list of winners, is available online at http://www.techawardscircle.com or by email at info@techawardscircle.com.

About Tech Awards Circle
In its second year, Tech Awards Circle was established to truly honor the ‘best of the best’ in technology. Tech Awards Circle is not affiliated with an analyst firm or a media company, both of which are directly supported by tech vendors through consulting relationships or advertising sales, so it is uniquely unbiased and immune to conflicts of interest. Entries are judged by an independent circle of journalists, including product reviewers, each with at least a decade of experience covering technology from consumer electronics to enterprise-class computing. For more information or to be added to the mailing list please visit www.techawardscircle.com.

About SEPATON, Inc.
SEPATON’s data protection appliances deliver high performance solutions for backup, restore, deduplication, replication and disaster recovery that enable enterprises to ensure the right data is in the right place at the right time. SEPATON designed its unique DeltaScale™ architecture to enable all of its products to deliver grid scalability and unparalleled performance. SEPATON’s next-generation ContentAware™ approach provides advanced deduplication as well as intelligent monitoring and management of data throughout the complete data protection lifecycle. As a result, companies around the world rely on SEPATON products to provide the data asset protection and dynamic access to data that are critical to their business success and continuity. The company has offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia and partnerships with leading resellers and OEMs worldwide. For additional information call 866-SEPATON or visit http://www.sepaton.com.

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SEPATON, S2100, DeltaStor, and DeltaRemote are registered trademarks and DeltaView, DeltaScale and DeltaCache Recovery are trademarks of SEPATON, Inc. All other brand and product names are or may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact:
Beth Winkowski
SEPATON, Inc.
978-649-7189
bwinkowski@sepaton.com