Cybernetics Press Release

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Cybernetics Introduces miNAS^® Gateway Option for the miSAN^®® D Series iSCSI SAN

May 12, 2009, Yorktown, Virginia – Cybernetics today announced the immediate availability of the miNAS^® Gateway, an optional 1U Windows file server module that extends support for Windows Active Directory, DFS, CIFS and NFS to the company's popular iSCSI SAN, the miSAN^®® R D Series. With miNAS^® and miSAN^®® R together, customers can take advantage of SAN and NAS functionality and benefits in a single, easy to implement solution.

The miSAN^®® R D Series replaces direct attached disk storage with fast, centralized block level storage and block level data protection, while miNA supplants file and backup servers for file and backup servers for file sharing and network-wide backup. Windows Backup is included, and optional third-party backup software is available to manage backup and restore across the entire network. Customers benefit from a more efficient, multifunctional storage solution that is easy to scale as their storage requirements grow. They also take advantage of the exclusive self protecting features of the miSAN^®® R D Series.

Powered by Cybernetics' exclusive SANDR Technology, the miSAN^®® R D Series protects itself from every threat to data at the disk storage level. It delivers terabytes of live storage with RAID 5 + Hot Spare for high availability with Snapshots and Active Deduplication Backups (ADB). miSAN^®® R D Series also supports WAN synchronization and remote replication. For disaster recovery and archival storage off-site, miSAN^®® R D Series provides serverless backup to tape and can also create portable disk backups to USB or eSATA disk. miSAN^®® R D Series is part of a complete family of iSCSI SAN solutions which also includes the iSAN^® R Vault and the 10 GbE iSAN^® R D Series.

Based in Yorktown, Virginia, Cybernetics manufactures, sells, supports and services a complete line of backup and storage solutions. Established in 1978, Cybernetics is recognized in the US and across the world as a pioneer in data storage technology and is well renowned for highly innovative storage features while ensuring top reliability and interoperability of systems.

For more information, please call (757) 833-9000 or visit www.cybernetics.com.

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