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PIVOT3 ANNOUNCES STORAGE SERVER FOR DISTRIBUTED SURVEILLANCE ENVIRONMENTS

New VideoBankTM Appliance
Includes a Free Virtual Server

Palo Alto, Calif. – August 5, 2009 – Pivot3®, Inc, the market leader in storage-centric computing, today announced the Pivot3 Serverless Computing VideoBankTM, a storage server appliance for distributed surveillance environments with usable capacity from 4 to 10 TB and an integrated virtual server. While competitive storage products require a separate physical server to run video management software, the Pivot3 VideoBank combines server and storage functionality in a single appliance to eliminate the power, cost and rackspace of the external server. The new appliance is targeted at retail, financial, education, and corporate environments where cameras are frequently distributed across a campus-type environment.

"We are installing Pivot3 systems in retail environments because the integrated servers significantly simplify these environments," said Kortney Dunkle, president of Cam-tek Systems Incorporated, a leading integrator based in Pennsylvania. "We are able to reduce the solution footprint for our customers, who care about power and cost, and they are happy to see the savings they can get with Pivot3."

"Pivot3 is already well-known for large-scale deployments and this extends our reach to smaller installations with 20 to 50 cameras," said Lee Caswell, co-founder and chief marketing officer of Pivot3. "Customers also like the fact that the management and tools are the same as the large-scale products we sell into the gaming, transportation, corrections, and homeland security markets."

"As video moves on to the network, end-users are looking for the best ways to manage and store their surveillance footage," according to Alastair Hayfield, senior market research analyst at IMS Research in Wellingborough, U.K. "The fusing of server and storage technologies is particularly attractive to the gaming, retail, education, transportation and commercial markets, which offer strong growth potential for network storage."

Pricing and Availability
The VideoBank appliance is available immediately through approved Pivot3 channel partners. The 4 TB VideoBank carries an MSRP of US$8,800, which includes a free virtual server.
For a list of Pivot3 channel partners, please visit http://www.pivot3.com/partners/channel.

PIVOT3 DEMONSTRATES FIRST iSCSI SAN PLATFORM TO INCLUDE VIRTUAL SERVERS

Consolidated Platform Features a High-Availability SAN with Virtual Servers to Save Up to 50 Percent in Power, Cost and Rack Space

VMWORLD 2009
San Francisco, Calif. – August 31, 2009 – Pivot3®, Inc, the market leader in storage-centric computing, today announced an enhancement of its Serverless Computing platform to support the Intel® Core™ microarchitecture (codenamed 'Nehalem'). With integrated server virtualization, each Pivot3 storage appliance can host server applications that have access to the underlying IP SAN and are managed with virtualization management tools. Pivot3 will be demonstrating its solution at VMworld 2009, booth #1644, August 31 through September 3, 2009, in San Francisco, Calif.

"We are installing Pivot3 systems in retail environments because the integrated servers significantly simplify these environments," said Kortney Dunkle, president of Cam-tek Systems Incorporated, a leading integrator based in Pennsylvania. "We are able to reduce the solution footprint for our customers, who care about power and cost, and they are happy to see the savings they can get with Pivot3."

"Support for server virtualization and the latest Intel architecture positions the Pivot3 platform as a powerful, horizontal platform, well-suited for high-capacity, high-throughput markets that are sensitive to cost, power and downtime,” said Henry Baltazar, storage analyst at The 451 Group. “The combination of storage and server functions in a single appliance offers customers a new option for consolidating infrastructure in environments where the storage workload is the dominant driver."

"The Pivot3 Serverless Computing™ platform was introduced with just one virtual machine per appliance in the video surveillance market in 2008 and has won every major award in that vertical market, because it improves uptime and significantly reduces cost," said Lee Caswell, founder and chief marketing officer at Pivot3. "New support for Intel's Nehalem architecture opens up more performance, so we can host more virtual machines and leverage virtual machine management tools to manage those virtual machines more effectively."

Pivot3 Serverless Computing consolidates physical servers into a Pivot3 SAN by adding server virtualization into each scale-out SAN appliance. Unlike conventional head-end storage arrays, the Pivot3 solution has ample hardware resources to offer both server and storage virtualization. Pivot3 SAN software aggregates the storage resources of each SAN appliance, and hosted servers have access to the resources of all the aggregated SAN appliances. Both data and applications are protected in the case of appliance failures. The appliance approach is ideal for growing environments, requiring flexibility in both storage and server resources.

The Pivot3 high-availability storage appliances include a free virtual server with failover at a list price of $1,000 per terabyte.

About Pivot3
Pivot3 is the leader in storage-centric computing and the fastest-growing surveillance storage company, with its award-winning products widely deployed in the gaming, homeland security, public safety, education and transportation markets.  The company’s innovative Serverless Computing™ architecture is ideally suited for video applications, and offers advanced availability, massive bandwidth, and large scaling of capacity. 

To learn more about Pivot3, visit www.pivot3.com.