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For Immediate Release
Full line of Iomega NAS Products Now Available for Dictaphone Solutions
SAN DIEGO,
August 4, 2003 — Iomega Corporation (NYSE:
IOM), a global leader in data storage, today announced
that it has become one of the preferred providers of
Windows® powered network attached storage (NAS)
products for Dictaphone Corporation’s Communications
Recording Systems (CRS) group.
Effectively immediately, Iomega’s
NAS products, ranging in capacity from 160 gigabytes
to 1.4 terabytes, will be available to provide storage
options for all users of Dictaphone’s Freedom®
recording systems. Communications recordings, as well
as video surveillance recordings, can be archived from
the Freedom® system to an Iomega NAS product for
secure, long-term storage. The recordings can then be
accessed from the NAS device remotely, providing instantaneous
access to recordings throughout the enterprise.
“We are extremely pleased
that Dictaphone has chosen Iomega as a storage supplier
for its industry-leading voice and data technology products,”
said Greg Rhine, Vice President and General Manager,
Americas sales, Iomega Corporation. “Iomega’s
Windows Powered NAS servers deliver the flexibility
and reliability that Dictaphone’s customers need
for managing important voice and data content.”
Dictaphone products offered through
the CRS division include Freedom® Digital Recording
solutions for customer contact centers, public safety,
and financial services applications.
According to Ed Rucinski, Sr. Vice
President and General Manager of Dictaphone’s
CRS™ group, “Our customers want reliable,
standards-based solutions that are well supported, and
Iomega is a well-known brand that has been building
a strong reputation with its NAS products. Iomega’s
Windows Powered NAS servers also integrate easily into
existing networks, offering high-availability storage
for 24/7 environments.”
Iomega NAS servers offer flexible,
cross-platform solutions that businesses need for organizing,
sharing, and protecting their critical data. Iomega’s
broad line of NAS servers ranges from the A205m, which
breaks the $1000 price barrier for Windows Powered NAS
servers, to Iomega’s P850m NAS server, which offers
1.44TB of usable capacity; dual CPUs; hot-swappable
drives, fans, and power supplies; RAID 5 and RAID 5+
hot spare; dual Gigabit Ethernet with TCP offload engine;
and Ultra 160 SCSI for external backup. Iomega NAS servers
deliver breakthrough pricing and performance for small
and medium-sized companies and enterprise workgroups,
and include Iomega Automatic Backup software, PC Magazine’s
Editor’s Choice for real-time client backup.
About Dictaphone
Corporation's Communications Recording Systems (CRS™)
Group
A division of Dictaphone Corporation, the Communications
Recording Systems (CRS) group is a leading provider
of communications recording and quality management systems
for contact centers, financial services, and public
safety environments, with over 18,000 installed customers
worldwide. CRS solutions are used to record and manage
multimedia communications, and its software applications
help to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of
the workforce. Dictaphone Corporation, with headquarters
in Stratford, CT, has over a century of experience in
voice and data technologies and is a leading provider
of speech recognition and natural language processing
solutions. For more information on Dictaphone Corporation,
please visit http://www.dictaphone.com.
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, Iomega
HDD Desktop Hard Drives, the Iomega
Mini USB Drive, Iomega
external CD-RW drives,
DVD drives and the Iomega
Floppy USB-Powered Drive. Iomega simplifies data
protection and sharing at home and in the workplace
with Iomega
Automatic Backup software, Iomega
Sync software, HotBurn®
CD-recording software, and Active
Disk technology. For networks, Iomega®
NAS servers offer capacities of 160GB to 1.4TB.
For unlimited capacity and anytime, anywhere access,
Iomega offers iStorage™ the secure
online storage choice. Iomega also offers businesses
and consumers a comprehensive data
recovery services solution for recovering lost data
due to hardware failure, file corruption or media damage.
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 products, 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 products, 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, 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, 2002, and its most recent Quarterly Report
on Form 10-Q.
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