NEW YORK, NY, September 26, 2007: To address explosive data growth plaguing businesses, government and research institutions, SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) today unveiled the SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS family focused on making high-performance storage technology easier to use.

At the heart of the SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS family is SGI’s highly efficient XFS® file system, repurposed for NAS appliance simplicity, and SGI® InfiniteStorage Appliance Manager, a new graphical-user interface for optimizing storage resources, managing growth and allowing the set-up of base NAS configurations in less than 20 minutes.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 25, 2007: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today introduced its first quad-core x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems, including the world’s smallest four-socket x64 server - which delivers up to twice the expandability and compute power as other servers, yet is half the size. The Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 servers, powered by Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, enable customers to solve critical problems in the datacenter by offering more performance, higher density, and better power efficiency than competitive systems in the market today. Both servers also give customers a choice of operating systems, running the Solaris Operating System (OS), Windows, Linux or VMware, with the flexibility to deploy a broad range of applications.

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REDWOOD CITY, CA - September 25, 2007: Ipedo, a global provider of enterprise information virtualization software, today announced several major enhancements to the award-winning Ipedo XIP platform. Adding to its ability to provide fast access to distributed business information, Ipedo XIP 4.3 offers an industry-first incremental caching capability, new parameterized views for complex queries, and expanded support for MySQL Enterprise.

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San Francisco, Sept. 18, 2007: Intel Corporation President and CEO Paul Otellini today outlined new products, chip designs and manufacturing technologies that will enable the company to continue its quickened pace of product and technology leadership.

Speaking to industry leaders, developers and industry watchers at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), Otellini showed the industry’s first working chips built using 32 nanometer (nm) technology, with transistors so small that more than 4 million of them could fit on the period at the end of this sentence. Intel’s 32nm process technology is on track to begin production in 2009.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 12, 2007: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced a definitive agreement pursuant to which Sun will acquire the majority of Cluster File Systems, Inc.’s intellectual property and business assets, including the Lustre File System. By acquiring Cluster File Systems, Inc., the leading parallel file system provider, Sun intends to add support for Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) on Lustre and plans to continue enhancing Lustre on Linux and Solaris OS across multi vendor hardware platforms. As previously announced in July 2007, Sun also plans to deliver Lustre servers on top of Sun’s industry-leading open source Solaris ZFS solution, which is one of the fastest growing storage virtualization technology in the marketplace.

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ANNAPOLIS, Md., September 13, 2007: Zenoss Inc., the fastest-growing open source IT management company, today announced the availability of new deployment options with its hardware and software appliance offerings. Both products come pre-configured with Zenoss’ award-winning network, server and application monitoring solutions while the software appliance is designed to work in virtual VMware environments.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 13, 2007: Mellanox™ Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX) (TASE:MLNX), a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, today announced that the company’s 20Gb/s ConnectX IB InfiniBand mezzanine adapter cards and switch blades provide the optimal low-latency, high-performance interconnect for the new HP BladeSystem c3000 enclosure targeting midsize companies looking to realize the cost benefits of a bladed environment and the performance advantages of InfiniBand.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 11, 2007: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA), the creator of Solaris, today announced the latest update to the free and open source Solaris Operating System (OS)-Solaris 10 8/07-to deliver an operating system that is optimized for virtualization, performance and resource management.

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SAN FRANCISCO, September 11, 2007: Mellanox™ Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX) (TASE:MLNX), a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, today announced that a joint virtual infrastructure demonstration with Verari Systems® consisting of VMware Infrastructure, Verari Systems’ BladeRack®2 blade server chassis and server blades, and native InfiniBand storage from LSI® using LSI’s 6498 Storage System connected via Mellanox InfiniBand adapters, delivers compelling I/O cost and power benefits by replacing multiple Gigabit Ethernet NICs and Fibre Channel Adapters with a single Mellanox 20Gb/s InfiniBand adapter. This demonstration is a bellwether of the adoption of unified InfiniBand I/O in the rapidly growing virtualized data center market used to solve both cost and power issues in IT infrastructure, especially in blade server deployments.

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 10, 2007: Targeted at enterprise customers, the ProCurve Switch 8212zl completes ProCurve’s core-to-edge network solution that unifies network technology, infrastructure, software, operation, management and support while reducing complexity and lowering costs. The switch is based on HP-developed ProVision ASIC technology.

Also announced today, the ProCurve Wireless Edge Services zl Module adds centralized wireless local area network (WLAN) configuration, management and advanced wireless services to the 8212zl core switch and 5400zl edge switch family.

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