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For Immediate Release
Iomega Offers Small and Medium-Sized
Businesses Bigger Storage Options for the Back Office
SAN DIEGO,
November 6, 2002 - Iomega Corporation(NYSE: IOM),
a global leader in data storage, today launched the
Iomega® NAS P415 in both Microsoft and UNIX versions,
adding a 720GB NAS (Network Attached Storage) server
to its family of NAS products. Designed for the growing
storage needs of small and medium-sized businesses and
enterprise workgroups, the NAS P415 offers easy installation
and seamless support of multiple network environments
and file protocols. In addition, Windows® Powered
units give users the choice of high-performance Gigabit
Ethernet or SCSI backup options.
"Whether it's a small office
or an enterprise workgroup, one of the biggest IT challenges
today is managing and storing the exponential growth
of data," said Akshay Gupta, product general manager,
back office products, Iomega Corporation. "Iomega
not only designs NAS products to be flexible and easy
to use, but also to be cost-effective solutions for
organizing and protecting critical data while keeping
an eye on the bottom line. The new Iomega NAS P415 models
deliver high-end features at dramatically lower costs."
Zane Adam, director of product management
and marketing, Microsoft Enterprise Storage Division,
said, "Iomega has a history of offering reliable
and easy to use products. With Windows Powered NAS,
Iomega now provides a powerful solution for small and
medium businesses. Offering simplicity of deployment
and management, Windows Powered NAS provides these organizations
with a highly reliable solution that can be up and running
within 15 minutes. Businesses can also take advantage
of the powerful features of Windows Powered NAS to simplify
network configuration, management and security, enabling
them to accomplish more with fewer resources."
Features
The NAS P415 ships with the new Iomega Automatic Backup
software, a data protection program that automates designated
file backups. Hardware features include a 1 GHz Intel®
Pentium® III processor; hot-swappable 180 GB ATA
hard drives; RAID 0, 1, and 5; and dual 10/100 Ethernet
ports. Iomega NAS P415m servers add a choice of SCSI
or Gigabit Ethernet configurations.
Iomega NAS servers powered by Microsoft®
Windows® 2000 Advanced Server operating system also
feature support for Distributed file system service
(Dfs), which simplifies linking additional Iomega NAS
servers to the same network; Active DirectoryTM services
(ADS), which simplify the management of users, servers
and policies; Persistent Storage Manager (PSM), a network
data protection program; and File Replication service
(FRS).
Ease of Use
"This class of NAS box attacks the fastest growing
segment of the entire mid-market," said Steve Duplessie,
Senior Analyst, The Enterprise Storage Group. "A product
with this density, simplicity, and price can't help
but win. All this combined with Iomega's channel sounds
like a killer combination to me."
All Iomega NAS servers simplify the
process of adding network capacity and help reduce downtime.
They allow network managers to consolidate data from
platform-specific servers across the network into one
easy-to-maintain device.
Technical Support
& Warranty
The NAS P415 comes standard with Iomega's NAS Gold service
plan with the option to purchase the Gold Plus service
plan. In addition to Iomega's standard service of phone,
e-mail and award-winning Web support, the Gold program
offers 24x7 technical support, a three-year warranty
and one year of next-business-day onsite service. The
Gold Plus service plan features 24x7 technical support,
a three-year warranty and three years of next-business-day
onsite service.
Availability
The Iomega NAS P415u has a suggested retail price of
$5,499; the Iomega NAS P415m and the Iomega NAS P415m
with gigabit Ethernet support have a suggested retail
price of $5,999. All three products are available for
shipment this week. All prices are U.S. only.
Iomega Gold and Gold Plus on-site
service is available in most locations in North America
and Europe, and is also available in select Asia-Pacific
countries, Australia, and New Zealand. Please see the
Iomega Web site for specific coverage details.
About Iomega
Iomega Corporation provides easy-to-use, high value
storage solutions to help people protect, secure, capture
and share their digital valuables. Iomega's award-winning
storage products include the popular Zip® 100MB,
250MB and 750MB drives, high-performance Iomega®
HDD portable hard drives that feature capacities from
20GB to 30GB, Iomega® HDD desktop hard drives that
offer capacities from 40GB to 120GB, and Iomega®
external CD-RW drives. Iomega simplifies data protection
and sharing at home and in the workplace with Iomega®
Automatic Backup software, Iomega® Sync software,
Iomega HotBurn® CD-recording software, and Active
Disk technology. For networks, Iomega NAS servers
offer capacities of 120GB to 480GB. The Company can
be reached at 1-888-4-IOMEGA (888-446-6342), or on the
Web at www.iomega.com.
NOTE: The statements contained in
this release regarding development, production and distribution
of the Iomega product, anticipated product pricing and
availability, expected product performance and specifications,
future applications for the new product and all other
statements that are not purely historical, are forward
looking statements within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All such forward
looking statements are based upon information available
to Iomega as of the date hereof, and Iomega disclaims
any intention or obligation to update any such forward
looking statements. Actual results could differ materially
from current expectations. Factors that could cause
or contribute to such differences include, but are not
limited to, the successful completion of product development
and testing, market acceptance of, and demand for, the
Iomega product, any difficulties encountered in ramping
up production or other manufacturing issues, including
component availability and pricing, co-development,
production, and distribution issues, product pricing
and conformity to specifications, dependence upon third
party suppliers, competition, personnel changes at either
suppliers, distributors, or Iomega, intellectual property
rights and other risks and uncertainties identified
in the reports filed from time to time by Iomega with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including
Iomega's Annual Report on Form 10 K for the year ended
December 31, 2001, and its most recent Quarterly Report
on Form 10-Q.
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