QUANTUM RECEIVES LATEST HONOR FOR TECHNOLOGICAL EXCELLENCE WITH SECOND CONSECUTIVE TECHXNY BEST OF SHOW AWARD
Company's DLTSage WORM™ WORM Archiving Capabilities for Regulatory Compliance Grab Title for Best Storage Product
San Jose, Calif., Oct. 13, 2004 -- Quantum Corp. (NYSE:DSS), a global leader in storage, was honored for technological excellence at this year's TECHXNY Conference with a Best of Show award for the second consecutive year. DLTSage WORM, Quantum's Write Once Read Many (WORM) tape compliance offering, was named the winner in the Best Storage Product category, the same award that Quantum won in 2003 for DLTSage™, its suite of predictive and preventative management tools. Part of CMP Media's New York's Technology Week, TECHXNY is the largest and most successful IT business event serving the technology industry on the East Coast. The Best of Show Awards Program recognizes the most innovative personal technology and corporate IT products, solutions and programs at the event.
"The simple and cost-effective compliance capabilities of DLTSage WORM's WORM technology show our commitment to increasing the high value of DLTtape® technology for IT end-users," said Steve Berens, senior director of product marketing and strategy for Quantum's Storage Devices Business Unit. "We are pleased it has made such an impression on the market and we're thrilled to be recognized again for our product innovation and vision by TECHXNY."
Judges for the award program included influential editors and journalists from leading information technology and business outlets, including: Rieva Lesonsky, Editor, Entrepreneur; Fred Paul, Editor in Chief, TechWeb; Mitch Wagner, Editor, Security Pipeline; Lucas Mearian, Computer Storage Reporter, Computerworld; Todd Spangler, Senior Editor, Baseline; Jeff O'Heir, Editor, Digital Connect Magazine; Grant Clauser, Editorial Director, Consumer Technology Publishing Group; Scot Finnie, Editor, TechWeb Network; Harry McCracken, Editor In Chief, PC World; Brian Bennett, Computer Hardware Staff Editor, Computer Shopper; Steve Fox, Editor In Chief, InfoWorld; Ron Anderson, Lab Director, Network Computing; Rusty Weston, Editor, Managing Offshore; Mike Vizard, Editor in Chief, CRN; and Bob DeMarzo, Editorial Director, VARBusiness.
Only exhibiting companies at New York's Technology Week were eligible to be considered for a Best of Show Award. To qualify, companies had to be announcing a new business IT product/solution or demonstrating it for the first time at the event. To decide the award winners, judges reviewed the best of show submissions.
About Quantum
Quantum Corp., founded in 1980, is a global leader in storage, delivering highly reliable backup, recovery and archive solutions that meet demanding requirements for data integrity and availability with superior price/performance and comprehensive service and support. Quantum is the world's largest supplier of half-inch cartridge tape drives, and its DLTtape® technology is the standard for tape backup, recovery and archive of business-critical data for the mid-range enterprise. Quantum offers the broadest portfolio of tape autoloaders and libraries and is one of the pioneers in the disk-based backup market, providing solutions that emulate a tape library but are optimized for backup and recovery. Quantum sales for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004, were approximately $808 million. Quantum Corp., 1650 Technology Drive, Suite 800, San Jose, CA 95110, (408) 944-4000, http://www.quantum.com.
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