ExaGrid Awarded Two Patents

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. -- ExaGrid Systems, Inc.(www.exagrid.com), the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with byte-level data de-duplication, today announced that the company has patented a method and apparatus for both backing up to a NAS-based system with byte-level delta data de-duplication, as well as ensuring long-term data integrity and recoverability. On file with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the two new patents are: U.S. Patent No. 7,246,140 "Method and Apparatus for Storage System to Provide Distributed Data Storage and Protection"and U.S. Patent No. 7,246,275 "Method and Apparatus for Managing Data Integrity of Backup and Disaster Recovery Data."

The technology innovation behind these two new ExaGrid patents delivers many real-world benefits for customers, including:

"ExaGrid has a history of producing innovative technology and applying those innovations to solve customers' data protection challenges," said Dave Therrien, founder and CTO, ExaGrid Systems, Inc. "With a world-class engineering organization, ExaGrid continues to build a strong intellectual property portfolio that extends our technology lead in disk-based backup and furthers our mission to provide customers with the most reliable, scalable, highest performing and most cost-effective disk-based backup system available. These new patents acknowledge the uniqueness of our technology and ExaGrid's place as a leader in the disk-based backup market."

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