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TeraMerge®Technology Reduces Impact of Network Backups

New Technology Expands Customer Backup Strategies

ALBUQUERQUE, NM - May 17, 2001 - Teradactyl, LLC. today announced immediate availability of version 2.0 of the True incremental Backup System® (TiBS) for AFS®, UNIX®, and Windows® platforms. TeraMerge® patented synthetic consolidation is the core technology powering the TiBS product. The process reuses data already on a backup server to generate new tape volumes with minimal impact on clients and the network. The technology is currently in use at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (top ranked by US News and World Report, April 9, 2001). TeraMerge allows customers to:

Safely remove periodic full backup processing from distributed computing environments.

Reduce the amount of incremental backup processing performed over existing data networks.

Perform 90% or more of the backup function entirely on the backup server.

Reduce data transfers on networks and backup clients by 10 times or more.

Generate lower level backups during normal business hours with no impact on other computing resources.

Increase the amount of data that each backup server can support.

Reliably recover from common tape media failures

Powerful Data Redundancy

In a traditional level backup scenario, even a single failed tape volume can lead to lost information. Because TeraMerge creates new backup volumes from existing backup volumes, the most recent backup taken is completely redundant. TiBS recovers a failed tape from the backup volumes that created it. Additional levels of redundancy are available at significantly reduced costs compared with tape mirroring and tape striping solutions available today.

Multi-Level Merge Support Available

TeraMerge can generate multiple levels of tape backup entirely on a backup server. Regardless of the number of backup levels configured, the impact on networks and backup clients remains the same. TiBS overcomes the classic tradeoff in a traditional level backup system: network loading vs. number of backup levels.

Target Markets

TiBS is marketed to medium and large size corporations, secondary education and research institutions, and government agencies with medium to large size distributed UNIX® and Windows® computing environments. Organizations using AFS® will benefit even more from the application of TeraMerge Technology to that product's backup format.

About Teradactyl, LLC.

Teradactyl has offices in Albuquerque, NM and Pittsburgh, PA. The company was founded in 1999 to provide innovative backup technology in anticipation of the tremendous growth in hard disk storage capacity. The company is headquartered at 2301 Yale Blvd. S.E., Suite C-7, Albuquerque, NM, 87106. (505) 242-1091, www: www.teradactyl.com

For More Information Contact

John N. Riley, III, Teradactyl, LLC. Press Relations, (505-242-1091), john3@teradactyl.com

Alexander Latimer , Teradactyl, LLC. Technical Sales, (412-656-5880), kwebb@teradactyl.com

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