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Zzyzx Peripherals Inc., a leading manufacturer of platform independent, high-availability RAID storage systems and the country's leading reseller of Sun(TM) compatible Tatung(TM) desktop and rack mount UNIX(TM) workstations, today announced the availability of new leading edge tape back-up solutions featuring Sony's AIT-2 tape drive technology and Qualstar's 412360 and 412180 AIT Tape Libraries -- offering unparalleled performance, capacity and value for unattended tape back-up solutions.

AIT-2 tape drives offer higher capacity (50GB native capacity/130GB compressed) and speed (6MB/sec native/15 MB/sec compressed) than any other tape drive on the market. These units are available as internal units, external subsystems and installed into Zzyzx' AIT Tape Libraries.

The two new members of Qualstar's highly successful TLS-4000 family of tape libraries, the 412360 and 412180, house up to 12 tape drives and 360 data cartridges. Integrated with the AIT-2 tape drives, these systems offer up to 46TB of total capacity and throughput exceeding 670 GB/hr. The powerful combination of the AIT-2 tape drives with Qualstar's tape libraries, are integrated with back-up software from Zzyzx' industry partners Computer Associates, Legato and Veritas. This allows Zzyzx to offer true enterprise class, custom tape back-up solutions to its customers and extends Zzyzx' already comprehensive line of total hardware/software tape solutions for UNIX and NT environments.

"This new combination of AIT-2 tape drives and Qualstar's 412180 and 412360 Tape Libraries allows Zzyzx to offer our customers bigger, faster, stronger tape back-up solutions that feature five times the capacity (up to 46 TB), and twice the throughput (670GB/hr) than our previous best tape library," said Gino Fontana, product manager at Zzyzx.

The Total Solution

To provide total solutions, Zzyzx offers full consultation and analysis of customer needs to determine the proper mix of products customized to their individual requirements. Appropriate software packages are then folded in that will run best with the user's computing applications, along with complete installation and training. Zzyzx' back-up software partners include Computer Associates, Legato and Veritas.

In addition to these software packages, more than 20 other leading back-up and storage management application developers are supported by Zzyzx' tape libraries.

"It becomes much more than simply reselling a tape library because we help customers decide what's best for them, implement it for them and then after the sale support them on it down the road when it comes time to fine tuning it," said Mary June Makoul, vice president of marketing at Zzyzx.

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