DataCore's SANmelody Eases Storage Growth for The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford

Leading Research Centre Selects DataCore's Disk Server Software through Fortuna Systems

READING, England -- May 10, 2005 -- DataCore Software today announced that the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics has chosen SANmelody^TM software for its storage management requirements. The solution, supplied through value-added reseller Fortuna Systems will enable the Wellcome Trust to deploy a cost-effective storage solution benefiting from a highly scalable and available architecture to meet its ever-expanding storage needs.

The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford was established in 1994 to undertake research into the genetic basis of common diseases. The Wellcome Trust itself is an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. Established in 1936 and with an endowment of around £10 billion, it is the UK’s largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research.

"Today, scientific, research-focused organisations like ours are faced with extremely complex storage management tasks," said Tim Bardsley, IT Manager at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. "Our expanding research programmes and increasing data are forcing an exponential growth in our data storage requirements, a phenomenon seen across the scientific research industry. Being charity funded, we need to balance our storage capacity needs with a tight control on spending, ensuring that we are able to demonstrate value-for-money purchases to our sponsors. With SANmelody we have been able to use low cost SATA-IDE type storage and present this to the user community via iSCSi and Fibre Channel."

Fortuna Systems have been working with Wellcome Trust Centre at Oxford for quite some time and have witnessed firsthand the tremendous growth in data. "The benefits of installing and integrating DataCore's SANmelody into the organisation will be immediately visible," said Ray Quattromini, Fortuna Managing Director. "The solution is highly scalable, cost-effective and truly open, thus avoiding any vendor lock-ins for the future."

"Organisations like Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics are looking for solutions that can grow along with data volumes," said Nick Broadbent, European Director at DataCore Software. "To meet the strict demands placed on data availability, SANmelody can turn very low cost storage into a high-performance storage solution. We are pleased that Wellcome Trust is now benefiting from the advantages that SANmelody has to offer."

About Fortuna
Fortuna Power Systems are one of the UK's leading Data Storage Solutions suppliers. Based in Basingstoke, Hampshire and founded in 1994, Fortuna is an ISO 9001:2000 supplier that works closely with many leading Data storage manufacturers to provide leading edge solutions for our clients. For more information, please see www.data-storage.co.uk.

About Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (WTCHG) undertakes research into the genetic basis of multifactorial diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, infectious diseases, psychiatric disorders, multiple sclerosis, and asthma. The WTCHG is part of the University of Oxford's Division of Medical Sciences, with access to large patient collections and the Division’s considerable strengths in complex disease mapping. The WTCHG currently has approximately 400 scientific researchers and holds grants with an overall value of approximately £60 million and has an annual turnover of around £11 million, of which £10 million is for research. For more, please visit www.well.ox.ac.uk.

About DataCore Software
DataCore Software fundamentally changes the economics of managing storage with innovative software that combines advanced functions and services with the agility and savings of hardware independence. The company's award-winning SANsymphony and new low-cost SANmelody disk server software products provide unprecedented purchasing flexibility and future-proofing by empowering customers to fulfill portability and price/performance requirements across a broad choice of systems and devices. Small to Medium Enterprises, Global 2000 data centers and OEM storage subsystems rely on this comprehensive product portfolio to deploy disk servers, to easily add capacity expansion, and to centralize and automate storage management for Windows, UNIX, Linux, MacOS and NetWare systems. DataCore is privately held with corporate headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit www.datacore.com.

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