Press Release

Data Assurance Announces Disc Studio Providing Blu-Ray Recording for Unix and Linux

Palm Springs, CA, May 18, 2007

Data Assurance announced today that Disc Studio HT is now available. Disc Studio HT provides high capacity optical data recording solution for Unix platforms through an integrated Plextor Blu-Ray drive, which can record 25 and 50 GB Blu-Ray discs, as well as CD and DVD discs for lower capacity storage needs. Blu-Ray drives utilize a blue-violet laser to increase data density, allowing a CD/DVD-sized disc to hold more than 10 times as much data as a single layer DVD. Disc Studio HT can use both write-once and rewritable media.

Disc Studio HT is the next generation of Young Minds' Studio family of optical disc products, which includes CD Studio®, DVD Studio™ , PowerStudio™, and MPS4™. Disc Studio HT connects via SCSI to any Unix or Linux server or workstation. Like other Studio products, Disc Studio HT uses intelligent controller technology to simplify installation and use, to increase recording reliability, and to offload recording tasks from the host.

In addition to its capability to record Blu-Ray, Disc Studio HT also incorporates other advances, such as integrated Young Minds' High Throughput (HT) Technology. HT Technology allows Disc Studio HT to record one disc while simultaneously downloading the data for a second disc. Because of the large amounts of data that Blu-Ray can store, HT Technology greatly reduces the amount of time needed to archive data.

"Disc Studio HT is an essential addition to any data center to provide long term, legally admissable archives," said Bob Levine, Marketing Director at Data Assurance. "Blu-Ray is superior to other archival technologies, such as tape, because the data on a Blu-Ray disc is quickly and easily accessed, and because the discs themselves are stable without any special handling requirements. Disc Studio HT's capabilities of recording CD, DVD and Blu-Ray, with direct connection to most platforms including almost every Unix and Linux operating system, make it ideal for creating archive copies and distributing any kind of data."

About Young Minds

Founded in 1989, Young Minds, Inc. (YMi) provides a complete line of network attached data libraries and network capable, cross-platform CD and DVD Recording systems. YMi pioneered CD-Recording and CD-ROM mass storage in the UNIX market, and continues to deliver the most innovative solutions that are reliable, cost-effective and easy to use. Andrew Young, Chairman and co-founder of the company, authored the Rock Ridge Interchange Protocols, which define additional functionality for ISO 9660 standard discs used in UNIX environments.

About Data Assurance

Data Assurance is a leading vendor of data storage products for banking, defense, aerospace, healthcare, and general business applications. As the master distributor of Young Minds products, we work with our customers to ensure that they are receiving the best CD/DVD archival products available. Data Assurance is also a Sony OEM, and offers Sony tape and optical drives and libraries, both as standalone products and as integrated solutions.