HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY PROMOTES COMPATIBILITY WITH AVAIL'S NETSPACE HSM

HP provides both optical and tape components for HSM solutions

Boulder, Colorado - October 3, 1994--Avail Systems Corporation received
further support for its "Avail ABLE" compatibility program when
Hewlett-Packard Company announced plans to promote Avail NetSpace in its
JetStore Referenced Solutions Program for tape libraries. Earlier this
year Hewetett-Packard included the Avail NetSpace software in its Optical
Referenced Solution marketing catalog for its optical jukeboxes. Now, by
promoting both tape libraries and optical jukeboxes, HP's valued added
reseller customers have proven hierarchical storage management (HSM)
system components from a single vendor.

The Avail compatibility program provides storage device manufacturers,
system integrators and end user customers the simplest method to build and
maintain storage management systems using standard, plug and play
components. Storage hardware vendors indicate the unit is Avail ABLE on
the packaging and product documentation. Any Avail ABLE storage device
used with a storage kit can instantly add capacity to an existing NetSpace
environment, or can be configured with other Avail certified devices to
form a hierarchy that can be managed by NetSpace. Integrators and users
are assured that storage equipment bearing the Avail ABLE logo will
operate with all applications containing the NetSpace HSM engine.

"Hewlett Packard storage peripherals have always provided customers with
the highest quality devices available," said Robert Wight, president and
CEO of Avail Systems. "Now that HP tape libraries and optical jukeboxes
are compatible with Avail NetSpace, users have all the components to
assemble a complete storage system for their networks.

Compelled by the simplicity of the program and the benefits for their
customers, many leading storage hardware vendors have adopted the Avail
compatibility strategy in marketing their products. Philips LMS, Spectra
Logic, Digital Equipment Corporation, Maxoptic, and ADIC also carry the
Avail certification.

Hierarchical storage management software solves the problems caused by the
explosion of file data on today's PC networks. Avail's NetSpace HSM
product provides expert, rule based procedures that automatically store
all networked data on "layers" of storage peripherals. Files are migrated
to various storage devices (such as disk drives, optical jukeboxes, and
tape libraries) to optimize both the cost of storage and data access time.
Files are transparently migrated and retrieved for the network user at a
fraction of the cost of adding traditional network storage.

Hewlett-Packard Company is an international manufacturer of measurement and
computation products and systems recognized for excellence in quality and
support. The company's products and services are used in industry,
business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately
110 countries. HP has 97,900 employees and had revenue of $20.3 billion in
its 1993 fiscal year.

Avail was the first company to develop hierarchical storage management
software for Novell networks. Since the product's introduction in July,
1993, Avail's software has received many accolades, including Computer
Technology Review's Reseller's Choice award and industry honors for
technical excellence and outstanding new storage product. Avail Systems
Corporation, founded in 1991, is a privately held corporation whose
investors are Aweida Ventures, Euclid Partners, and Hambrecht & Quist.

Avail Systems
4760 Walnut St
Boulder, CO 80301
303-444-4018,  fax 303-546-4219

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