RAID™ to Partner with Arkeia at LinuxWorld 2005

Release date: February 11, 2005

Lawrence, Mass. — RAID Incorporated will partner with Arkeia at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston, MA next week. RAID will be showcasing their new Phoenix product line in booth #920. The show will be held at the Hynes Convention Center, February 15-17, 2005. Visiting RAID and Arkeia will give attendees a chance to meet and speak directly with Tad Gambiza, RAID's Senior Systems Engineer, who is considered an expert in the data storage technology field.

RAID Inc's new Phoenix™ Series, is designed for mission critical business applications requiring high-availability, performance, scalability and enterprise functionality. The Phoenix offers a robust feature set which includes storage virtualization, Snapshot, asynchronous and synchronous replication, volume copy services, intelligent capacity management and an easy to use san manager.

"We are excited about the opportunity to exhibit at the show with one of our software partners," stated Wendy Hamel, Director of Marketing at RAID, Inc. "RAID's product line coupled with Arkeia's enterprise backup solutions provide some of the best customer solutions on the market."

About Arkeia
Arkeia Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise network backup solutions, noted for its early and comprehensive support of the Linux operating system. Founded in 1996, Arkeia's mission is to provide fast, reliable and easy-to-use network backup for heterogeneous environments. The distributed client/server architecture, administrative capabilities, and multiflow/multiplexing technologies enable Arkeia to provide enterprise-class technology at an affordable price. Arkeia supports hundreds of tape libraries, tape drives and over 30 operating systems/hardware combinations.
www.arkeia.com

About RAID Incorporated
Headquartered in Lawrence, MA, RAID Incorporated is a managed storage services provider (MSSP) and designs customized storage systems and solutions. RAID Incorporated's flagship service StorageWatch® is the industries only real-time monitoring and managed storage service which reduces customers total cost of ownership by reducing operational costs associated with maintaining and administering storage systems while increasing data availability. Since 1994, RAID has been devoted to researching and developing leading edge technologies while providing twenty-four hour support services to become one of the industry leaders. RAID specializes in solving compute, application, and disaster recovery needs with a unique platform combining hardware, software, and services. www.raidinc.com

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