60 of ExaGrids Q4 business was sold through channel partners

ExaGrid targets customers with 1TB to 100TBs of data to bebacked up. Worldwide Customer Acquisition: ExaGrid continues to win against itscompetitors, gaining a long list of new customers throughout the world in keyindustries such as:Healthcare, Legal, Engineering Services, Manufacturing, Oiland Gas, Education and State/Local Government. View more than 84 real-worldExaGrid customer case studies on the ExaGrid Web site, including success storiesfrom leaders like Adventist Health, Kawasaki, Kingston Technology, KonicaMinolta and Morningstar,via: http:// Global Channel Growth: ExaGrid added dozens of partners to its global baseduring the quarter and now has hundreds of VARs and several key distributorsthroughout the world. ExaGrid continues to invest in building a robust globalchannel. 60 of ExaGrids Q4 business was sold through channel partners. Product Leadership: During the quarter, ExaGrid announced and shipped severalcustomer-focused product enhancements, including an industry-first, instantdisaster recovery (DR) capability, 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity options,expanded data handling and automated system health reports. These productenhancements allow customers to significantly improve the way they manage theirbackups by providing greater flexibility in handling disparate backup datatypes, delivering backup data more rapidly for DR purposes and providingproactive system health reporting on key operational metrics.

With this release,ExaGrid supports leading backup applications such as Symantec Backup Exec andNetBackup, CA ARCserve , EMC Networker, CommVault Galaxy, and Vizioncore vRangerPro; as well as other data types including VMware VMDK, Oracle RMAN, Linux/Unixdata dumps and MicrosoftSQL dumps. ExaGrids future product plans include thesupport of many additional backup applications and utilities. Continued Industry Partnerships: In Q4, ExaGrid continued joint sales andmarketing campaigns with several backup software and industry leaders, includingSymantec and Vizioncore. Joint ExaGrid and Symantec/Vizioncore on-demandWebcasts are available now via: http://"With the highest performance and most scalable product at the best price,ExaGrid continues to be a rapidly-growing leader in the disk-based backupmarket," said Bill Andrews, president and CEO of ExaGrid Systems. ExaGridis a key player in the global market for tape backup replacement with diskbackup solutions that use data deduplication technology. Were excited about2009 and eager to leverage the strong business foundation we built in the prioryear to continue our technology leadership and market share growth." About ExaGrids Technology:The ExaGrid system is a turnkey, plug-and-play solution that works with existingbackup applications and enables faster and more reliable backups and restores.Customers report that backup time is reduced by 30 to 90 percent overtraditional tape backup.

ExaGrids patented byte-level data deduplicationtechnology and most recent backup compression, coupled with high-quality SATAstorage, reduces the amount of disk space needed by a range of 10:1 to as highas 50:1, or more, resulting in a price thats often less than traditionaltape-based backup. About ExaGrid Systems, Inc:Headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts, ExaGrid is the leader incost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with byte-level datadeduplication. A highly scalable system that works with existing backupapplications, the ExaGrid system is ideal for companies looking to quicklyeliminate the hassles of tape backup while reducing their existing backupwindows. ExaGrids patented approach minimizes the amount of data to be storedby providing standard data compression for the most recent backups along withbyte-level data deduplication technology for all previous backups. Customers candeploy the ExaGrid system at primary sites and secondary sites to supplement oreliminate offsite tapes with live data repositories or for disaster recovery.For more information, contact ExaGrid at 800-868-6985 or visit the "ExaGrids Eye on De-Duplication" blog: ExaGrid is a registered trademark of ExaGrid Systems, Inc. All other trademarksare the property of their respective holders ExaGrid Systems, Inc.Wayne St Amand, 508-898-2872 ext.