Plasmon Introduces Archive Appliance

Published 15th June 2007

Delivers Enterprise-Level Compliant Archival Storage and Unmatched Data
Longevity of the Plasmon UDO Technology to the SMB Market...

Cambridge, UK June 12th, 2007 – Plasmon (LSE:PLM), the trusted source in
archiving systems, today launched the Archive Appliance Express developed
specifically to address the needs of small-to–medium-sized medical
businesses (SMBs). Plasmon is collaborating with value-added integrators in
the medical field to bring the Archive Appliance Express to Picture
Archiving Communication System (PACS) offerings.

SMBs in the medical market have greater vulnerabilities because they can't
afford to invest heavily in IT resources. However, these businesses have
the same data compliance and storage needs as larger organisations. The
introduction of the Archive Appliance Express is a direct response to the
need for an archiving solution that easily manages the growing archive
demands, requirements and constraints of a business without the complexity
and cost of an enterprise level product.

"SMBs want products that require very little manipulation. However, these
organizations collect and store critical data and they must deal with the
same compliance requirements as their counterparts in larger medical
businesses," said Mike Koclanes, chief strategy officer and senior vice
president of sales and marketing at Plasmon. "By reducing complexity while
maintaining the system reliability and data permanence for which Plasmon is
known, the Archive Appliance Express will help medical customers address IT
challenges while improving their operating performance."

The Archive Appliance Express is shipped pre-configured for the PACS
software so it is simple to install and maintain and is an excellent fit for
medical SMBs with little or no IT resources. Similar to the Plasmon UDO
Archive Appliance, the Archive Appliance Express is a tiered storage
solution that allows data to be cached on RAID for quick access while being
immediately committed to UDO for long-term retention. As a non-volatile,
secure technology with an extremely long life, UDO requires no proactive
media maintenance and the true hardware Write Once Read Many (WORM) format
ensures record authenticity that is far superior to magnetic disk and tape
technology.

The integrated Archive Appliance Express ships with new 60GB UDO2 technology
and SATA RAID protection providing 170 GB of usable cache. Software for
storage and media management is also included at no additional charge. To
provide investment protection for growing businesses, there is a transparent
migration process to larger Plasmon Archive Appliances.