Bardel Entertainment Lauded as Storage Networking World's 2006 'Best Practices in Storage' Award Finalist

Bardel Entertainment Lauded as Storage Networking World's 2006 'Best Practices in Storage' Award Finalist

SANRAD Customer Recognized for IP SAN Excellence

SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- SANRAD Incorporated, a leading supplier of open enterprise IP SANs, today announced that one of its customers, Bardel Entertainment, has been named a finalist in Storage Networking World's (SNW) "Best Practices in Storage" awards program.

Bardel Entertainment, Inc. is a Vancouver, B.C.-based entertainment company that specializes in producing quality-animated programming for children and families. Bardel's star-quality resume includes working with companies such as Dreamworks on the movie "Spirit," Fox on "Anastasia" and Disney Interactive on games such as "Buzz Lightyear" -- just to name a few.

Bardel was recognized as one of five finalists in SNW's "Best Practices in Storage" awards program for outstanding design, implementation and management of an interoperable environment. Using the open, scalable architecture of SANRAD's IP SAN solutions, Bardel was able to maintain a heterogeneous storage network and utilize its existing resources, while realizing a cost-savings of 70 percent over conventional Fiber Channel alternatives.

"Bardel is a visionary company," said Uli Gal-Oz, CEO of SANRAD. "They recognize the advantage of a low-cost, storage-agnostic solution that gives them the ability to easily manage their choice of storage-utilizing either new or existing resources."

SNW's twice-yearly awards program identifies and acknowledges excellence among users of storage technology. Honorees will be announced during the Gala Evening with "Best Practices in Storage" awards dinner on Nov. 2 at the JW Marriott Grande Lakes Resort in Orlando, FL.

SANRAD is transforming the way enterprises implement and manage storage solutions by providing every server with low-cost SAN connectivity and management. SANRAD gives enterprise IT managers an economical solution that extends centralized data protection, access and compliance across the entire organization. By leveraging their existing storage and network infrastructure, SANRAD customers can save more than 90 percent of the cost of existing FC SAN connectivity and management solutions.

SANRAD's storage-agnostic approach allows IT managers to utilize existing resources and employ different classes of storage to meet the varying performance and reliability needs of the organization. For example, users can maintain an existing Fiber Channel connection for situations where throughput matters most, and use iSCSI for other purposes, such as projects, user files, email or database functions.

SANRAD's V-Switch is compatible with solutions from Brocade, Engenio, HP, Veritas, IBM, Microsoft and others.

About SANRAD

SANRAD provides enterprise iSCSI platforms with a broad complement of embedded and simple to manage storage services. Its unique solution offers open storage pooling, virtualization, local and long distance data replication and disaster recovery services at the network layer. This in turn provides customers with greater scalability, interoperability and vendor independence in their storage solutions.

For more information, visit www.sanrad.com .

About the "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program

Sponsored by EMC, the Storage Networking World annual awards program, "Best Practices in Storage," identifies and acknowledges excellence among users of storage technology in the following categories:

-- Planning, Designing and Building a Strategic Storage Infrastructure
-- Storage Reliability and Data Recovery
-- Securing the Storage Fortress
-- Systems Implementation
-- Innovation and Promise

Source: SANRAD Incorporated

CONTACT: Erin Hitch of Bite Communications, +1-650-326-5074, or
erin.hitch@bitepr.com, for SANRAD Incorporated

Web site: http://www.sanrad.com/

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