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Express DR 650 Data Reduction Cards to Double the Capacity, Reduce the Cost and Increase the Eco-Efficiency of Bull's StoreWay Virtuo Solution LOS GATOS, Calif., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hifn(TM) (NASDAQ:HIFN), the catalyst behind storage and networking innovation, today announced that Bull, a leading European IT company, has selected Hifn's new Express DR 650 data reduction cards to integrate into the company's newly announced StoreWay Virtuo V7 backup/restore and tape virtualization solution. The addition of the Hifn DR 650 data reduction card enables Bull to provide customers with an efficient, capacity optimized solution that offers double the storage capacity with the same disk space while effectively cutting the power, space and cooling requirements of the data in half. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070723/CLM036LOGO) "As a storage integrator, we seek to deliver value to our customers by integrating the latest in technical innovation within our products and solutions," said Benoit Hallez, Director of Bull's worldwide StoreWay storage division. "IT organizations are now confronted not only with escalating data storage requirements but also how to optimize space, power and cooling within the data centers. StoreWay Virtuo equipped with Hifn's Express DR card delivers an efficient storage solution that will help them get a handle on these growing issues." "Bull has recognized the high customer value that hardware-advantaged capacity optimization brings to a backup solution such as the StoreWay Virtuo V7," said Michael Goldgof, Vice President of Marketing at Hifn. "As the data growth rate has collided with the power, cooling and management resources required, capacity optimization through Hifn's market-leading Express DR cards has become the defacto standard for addressing these requirements." Designed to help IT administrators deal with the exponential growth in stored data and improve storage total cost of ownership (TCO), the Hifn Express DR family of PCI Express cards provides enterprise-class, hardware-accelerated capacity optimization designed to complement modern multi-core servers and advanced data backup storage systems such as the Bull StoreWay Virtuo V7. Express DR cards combine superior data integrity features with intelligent data reduction and unprecedented performance for any type of unstructured data. Hifn's Express DR 650 data reduction card provides up to 600 MB/sec sustained data throughput in full duplex mode per card and up to four cards can be installed in a single node pushing performance beyond 2 GB/sec. Hifn's Express DR cards are built on a high-reliability, zero-defect design that ensures 100 percent compressed data verification, combining CRC data integrity with automatic failover. A failsafe software feature guarantees that data is available and recoverable in the event the DR card is not available. Bull's StoreWay Virtuo V7 is a backup solution for managing the back-end disk and tape environments in enterprise backup architectures through an integrated solution providing tape library and drive virtualization, disk caching, and physical tape library management. StoreWay Virtuo V7 supports both Bull Gcos and IBM MVS mainframe and open server environments, allowing data to be backed up from and restored to a variety of heterogeneous platforms and backup software. Bull will offer the StoreWay Virtuo model with various options including one or multiple Express DR 650 cards to guarantee maximum data throughput. About Hifn Hifn (NASDAQ:HIFN) delivers the key OEM ingredients for 21st century storage and networking environments. Leveraging over a decade of leadership and expertise in the development of purpose-built Applied Service Processors (ASPs), we are a trusted partner to industry leaders for whom infrastructure innovation in storage and networking is critical to success. With the majority of secure networked communications flowing through Hifn technology, the 21st century convergence of storage and networking drives our product roadmap forward. For more information, please visit: http://www.hifn.com/. "Safe Harbor" Statement under the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Specifically, statements regarding the Company's future financial performance including, without limitation, statements related to Hifn's DR 650 card enabling Bull to provide customers with a solution that offers double the storage capacity with the same disk space while effectively cutting the power, space and cooling requirements in half, StoreWay Virtuo equipped with Hifn's Express DR card delivering an efficient storage solution that helps customers handle the growing issues of escalating data storage requirements and Bull recognizing the high customer value of the Express DR cards are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor that may cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained herein. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described herein include, but are not limited to: dependency on a small number of customers; customer demand and customer ordering patterns; and orders from Hifn's customers may be below the company's current expectations. These and other risks are detailed from time to time in Hifn's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Hifn expressly disclaims any obligation to update or revise its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070723/CLM036LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Hifn CONTACT: Corporate Communications of Hifn, Inc., +1-408-399-3520, ; or Agency, Judy Smith of JPR Communications, +1-818-386-0403, , for Hifn Web site: http://www.hifn.com/

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