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From: "Douglas Gruehl" <douglas.gruehl@onstor.com>
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Hi Team

Attached and pasted below for your convenience is our latest press
release that crossed the wire services this morning. As you can see, we
are continuing our GO Green with ONStor initiative that we started last
year.

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Carpe Diem

Douglas

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ONStor EXPANDS GO GREEN INITIATIVE WITH MEMBERSHIP IN THE GREEN GRID

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CAMPBELL, Calif.- Feb. 12, 2008 - ONStor Inc., the leading provider of
scalable clustered NAS storage solutions for the enterprise, today
announced that it has joined The Green Grid, an influential industry
organization that promotes energy-efficient IT solutions. Extremely
energy efficient, ONStor's NAS solutions offer up to 95 percent power
savings compared to both traditional direct-attached and competing
networked storage environments.

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"ONStor has been delivering energy-efficient storage solutions since the
inception of our company. We believe that being part of the
collaborative effort of The Green Grid will help accelerate the pace of
both industry-wide development and market adoption of energy-conscious
solutions," said Narayan Venkat, vice president of marketing at ONStor.
"Since the launch of ONStor's GO Green initiative last summer, we have
been active in shaping the industry dialogue around green. Our Green
Grid membership demonstrates our commitment to collaborating with the IT
industry to help drive adoption of green data center solutions, turning
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The Green Grid is a worldwide consortium of IT companies and
professionals dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers
and business computing ecosystems by collaborating with end users and
government organizations to ensure that energy-efficiency goals are
mapped to both developers and users of a data center. The Green Grid's
mission focuses on defining meaningful, user-centric models and metrics;
developing standards, measurement methods, processes, and new
technologies to improve data center performance against the defined
metrics; and promoting the adoption of energy-efficient standards,
processes, measurements, and technologies.

"With storage infrastructures accounting for an ever-increasing
proportion of data centers' energy consumption, it is imperative that
storage industry vendors focus on improving power-efficiency both
individually and as an industry. ONStor has had its own excellent
'green' story in terms of reduced power and space consumption, so it is
good to see them joining The Green Grid community," said Mark Peters, an
analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group focused on green data center
issues. "The Green Grid is committed to making a 'green' emphasis the
norm, rather than an afterthought. It's an approach that sits well with
ONStor, whose ability to run a NAS management appliance for about the
same power consumption as a light bulb demonstrates what is already
possible with today's technology. As more companies join forces with the
Green Grid, I hope that the increased industry focus on - and learning
around - the issues of power, cooling and space efficiency, pays
dividends for vendors and users alike."

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As part of its GO Green initiative, last summer ONStor conducted an
independent survey of 369 IT decision makers regarding the status of the
"greening" of their data centers, with the following significant
results:

*	63 percent of the respondents reported that their data center
had run out of space, power, or cooling capacity without warning.
*	Although the power consumption of an enterprise's data center is
massive, 40 percent of respondents had not discussed a green initiative
within their company.
*	60 percent reported that they had a green initiative in place,
would have one in place in the next two years, or had at least talked
about it with management.=20

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Designed with n-way clustering, file server virtualization, and single
pool open storage, ONStor's clustered NAS products deliver the simplest,
most efficient storage solution on the market today. ONStor's NAS
products also offer thin provisioning, replication, and storage tiering
to support enterprises' storage management and business continuity
needs. For more information, go to www.onstor.com/go_green.php.

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