Offering Drives Down the Price of Reliable Data Protection

BOSTON, Feb.15, 2005—Silicon Graphics (NYSE:SGI) and Arkeia Corp. announced today at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo® (Booth #920, February 14-17, 2005, Hynes Convention Center) a turnkey, high-performance backup hardware and software solution designed for technical computing environments in the research, education and government sectors where performance, reliability and cost of data protection are critical.

The SGI® Altix® 350 server, when combined with Arkeia Network Backup software delivers a high performance backup solution which protects as many as 10 client servers and incorporates the Arkeia Data Encryption and the Arkeia Tape Archive modules. For a limited time, customers can enjoy special solution pricing by leasing an SGI Altix 350 server for as little as $370.30 for 36 months from SGI, and licensing Arkeia Network Backup software from Arkeia for $1,919, which represents over an 80 percent discount off the suggested retail price of the Arkeia software.

"Customers want fast and reliable backups at an affordable price," said Dave Elliott, director of business development, Arkeia. "Arkeia's multi-flow and multiplexing capabilities take full advantage of the record-setting Linux OS-based Altix platform."

"The Altix 350 and Arkeia Network backup solution brings to the Linux community a powerful combination of a leading Linux server with proven data protection software at an incredibly low price," said Bill Mannel, director of marketing, Server and Platform Group, SGI. "We are excited to showcase this solution and bring to customers a concise backup process and greater protection of critical business data."

"The Arkeia and SGI solution is a rock-solid, high-powered backup/recovery engine that will help a lot of Linux sites globally," said Peter Gerr, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.

Arkeia Network Backup features 64-bit Linux® support for Intel® Itanium® 2 and support of Kernel 2.6 Linux distributions. Arkeia also offers a tightly integrated solution for open databases and applications such as MySQL®, Oracle®, DB2® and Microsoft® Exchange. In addition, Arkeia v5.3 supports NDMP network-attached storage (NAS) devices and Microsoft® Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) technology embedded in Windows® 2003 servers, while incorporating enhancements to existing elements of the scalable data protection solution for heterogeneous environments.

Arkeia Network Backup uses SGI® XFS® file system which is fully embraced by the open source community and is currently in the 2.6 kernel. XFS provides full 64-bit file capabilities and easily scales from gigabytes to exabytes to handle extremely large files. The XFS file system integrates volume management and journaling technology for fast, reliable recovery.

SGI Altix 350 delivers production-ready, scalable 64-bit Linux to mid-range customers and developers. For technical users seeking superior performance in a cost-effective, platform that scales to 32 processors and 384GB of memory per system, Altix 350 offers leading price performance and the ability to independently scale I/O, memory, and processors to optimally address current and future processing needs. The 64-bit powerhouse delivers more real-world performance than any other mid-range system, and provides breakthrough capabilities for technical database, departmental server, and throughput cluster applications. Altix 350 provides customers with an open, industry-standard solution based on Intel Itanium 2 processors and a robust, scalable Linux operating environment.

For more information on the backup solution, call SGI at 1-800-800-7441 prompt #1.

ARKEIA CORPORATION
Arkeia Corporation is a leading provider of established backup and recovery solutions for departments and mid-size businesses utilizing Linux. Arkeia offers data protection software designed to ease the life of system administrators by providing efficient technology at a competitive price. Products include Arkeia Network Backup, Arkeia Server Backup, bare metal Disaster Recovery modules, NDMP support for NAS backup and hot backup plug-ins for Oracle, DB2, Lotus, MySQL, PostgreSQL, LDAP, MS SQL and MS Exchange Servers.

Protecting more than 100,000 networks worldwide, Arkeia solutions have been adopted by 4,000 corporate-class customers in over 50 countries since 1999. Arkeia is privately held, with investment funding support from two major banking concerns. Offices are in Carlsbad, CA and Paris, France. For further information, visit www.arkeia.com.

SILICON GRAPHICS | The Source of Innovation and Discovery™
SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc., is a leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI's vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland security and defense, or enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for scientific, engineering and creative users. With offices worldwide, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and can be found on the Web at www.sgi.com.

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