MEDIALOGIC ADL SIGNS DEAL WITH AUTOMATED NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES FOR UNIX HSM
SOFTWARE

February 1, 1995 -- BOULDER, Col. -- MediaLogic ADL, developer of the
industry's premier scalable data library products, today announced an
expansion of software support for its breakthrough line of Scalable
Library Architecture (SLA) products through an agreement with Automated
Network Technologies. Englewood, Col.-based Automated Network Technologies
will support the full SLA product line with its leading-edge Hierarchical
Storage Management software for UNIX.

"MediaLogic ADL's SLA products are among the first on the market that have
the capability to take advantage of the advanced functionality of Metior,"
said Automated Network Technologies President, Hal Abbott. "Metior is a
perfect match for the SLA products because we share a common belief that
previous solutions were not suitable for the high-throughput demands of
today's UNIX storage environments," said Abbott. "The Metior-SLA
combination is unsurpassed in delivering the level of performance,
capacity and functionality demanded for UNIX HSM applications."

"The customer commitment doesn't stop with leading-edge hardware
technology," said Lee Elizer, President and CEO of MediaLogic ADL.
"MediaLogic ADL is dedicated to working with the top echelon of storage
software providers to give ADL customers the option to select the software
product which best fits their business needs. Automated Network
Technologies provides the type of product excellence and value necessary
for effective mass storage library utilization."

Automated Network Technologies' Metior HSM software is based on the IEEE
mass storage reference model and is one of the first distributed HSM
solutions for UNIX. Metior runs on the most popular UNIX platforms,
including Sun OS, Solaris, Silicon Graphics, HP-IX and SCO UNIX. Metior
also provides client support for any NFS-mountable environment, including
NetWare, OS/2, Macintosh and VMS.

Automated Network Technologies' exclusive "three dimensional" hierarchy
capability makes it one of the most configuration-flexible of any UNIX HSM
software solutions. The three dimensional feature allows network
administrators to create up to seven levels of hierarchical storage,
including multiple levels of hierarchy in the same physical medium as in a
single tape library. Files can be designated for migration between levels
of the hierarchy based on any attribute desired by the administrator to
best meet the requirements of specific groups or departments. Files can
also be moved directly from one layer to any other layer in the hierarchy
and can be restored to any authorized workstation directly from the tape
library with no intervention by the server disk. The three-dimensional
design and distributed architecture of Metior significantly reduces disk
thrashing, greatly improving network storage performance.

"Just as no single storage model is the best for every environment, no
single set of migration rules or hierarchical design works best for every
company," said Abbott. "Metior is the only solution that delivers the
flexibility to bring effective HSM to open system computing
environments."

The Metior software can drive all twelve tape drives simultaneously in
MediaLogic ADL's SLA-8max and SLA-4max libraries, or seven drives in the
SLA-D library. In an SLA-8max configuration, for example, the SLA-8 could
utilize six drives to back up data from the server, while the other six
drives are responding independently to client file restoration requests
and/or HSM staging requests.

With Automated Network Technologies, MediaLogic ADL has now added another
company in the backup and data management software field, which includes
Palindrome Corporation with backup and HSM solutions for NetWare and
Workstation Solutions with its UNIX backup products.

The SLA family currently includes three series of automated data libraries:
the SLA-4 Series of 4mm DAT systems with capacities of up to 960 gigabytes
(with 20, 40, 72 and 120 cartridges) in a 12-drive configuration, the
SLA-8 line of 8mm units, offering more than 1.23 terabytes of capacity
also in a 12-drive configuration (with 14, 28, 52 and 88 cartridges), and
the multi-terabyte high-performance DLT-based SLA-D product family with up
to 7 drives (with 7, 14, 26 and 50 cartridges).

The innovative SLA technology gives these libraries an unprecedented level
of scalability to create customized solutions to precisely meet specific
customer requirements. As more cartridges are added to the libraries
through the addition of higher capacity DataPaks, additional tape drives
can be added to ensure that data throughput keeps pace. And each drive
includes an integrated media loader, automatically scaling the data
handling capabilities of the library as more drives are added to ensure
that information stored in the DataPak is made available to users as fast
as possible. Quick and easy data interchange is supported via the front
panel accessible MixedMedia Interchange Drawer. The MixedMedia Interchange
Drawer be configured with up to four SCSI devices to exchange information
between the MixedMedia devices and the DataPaks.

MediaLogic ADL, Inc., headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, is a subsidiary
of Massachusetts-based Media Logic, Inc. MediaLogic ADL is chartered with
creating breakthrough technology in the area of innovative automated data
library (ADL) solutions. The design and architecture of the new MediaLogic
ADL scalable library products is expected to enhance current applications,
enable expanded use of libraries and provide an excellent opportunity for
VARs to participate in the profitable emerging market for automated
storage solutions.

Founded in 1982, Media Logic, Inc. is a leading worldwide supplier of
evaluation equipment to both manufacturers and users of flexible computer
disks and tape. The company also manufactures and sells AccuCopy
industrial disk drives and heads for strenuous environment and high
reliability applications. The company's stock is publicly traded under the
symbol TST on the American Stock Exchange.

MediaLogic ADL Inc
4990 Pearl East Circle
Boulder, CO 80301
303-939-9780,  fax 303-939-9745
AOL: adlinc

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