Mezeo Software Announces TwinStrata as a Mezeo Ready Solution Partner at HostingCon 2010

TwinStrata's CloudArray(TM) Enables Simplified Access to Mezeo Ready Storage Clouds


AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - July 19, 2010) -  Mezeo Software™ (www.mezeo.com), a leading provider of a deployable cloud storage platform, today announced the addition of TwinStrata (www.twinstrata.com) as a Mezeo Ready Solution Partner. TwinStrata's CloudArray™ solution enables seamless iSCSI access to any Mezeo Ready Premier Hosting Provider storage cloud. The announcement was made at HostingCon 2010, which runs through July 21 at the Austin Convention Center. Mezeo is exhibiting in Booth 337.

Launched in June, the Mezeo Ready Program is designed to make it easier for customers and service providers to find and deploy Mezeo Ready solutions. The Mezeo Ready community is made up of service providers, developers, solution providers and technology partners all focused on delivering cloud storage solutions.

TwinStrata's CloudArray architecture provides comprehensive cloud storage enablement with enterprise-class storage features such as end-to-end encryption, fast restores without tape, compression and flexible local caching. These features enable delivery of a cost-effective and seamlessly managed Mezeo-based storage cloud optimized for performance, availability and elastic storage capacity.

"As a Mezeo Ready solution, customers and service providers can be assured that TwinStrata's CloudArray has been carefully evaluated and tested and seamlessly integrates with the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform," said Steve Lesem, President and CEO of Mezeo Software. "CloudArray easily connects any Mezeo Ready storage cloud to existing infrastructure in a manner that is familiar to System Administrators and seamless to end users. The TwinStrata technology will enable customers to realize significant cost savings over tape solutions and a reduction in capital and administrative costs when it comes to backup and disaster recovery."

Lesem will present at HostingCon at 9 a.m. this morning on "Cloud Storage Adoption: Public, Private, Enterprise and Service Providers." The event exhibits open on Tuesday, July 20, and attendees can stop by Mezeo booth 337 to see a demonstration of the CTERA CloudPlug.

"Together, Mezeo and TwinStrata allow organizations to respond quickly to changes in business environments, better map business objectives to IT, optimize IT operational efficiency and improve IT cost controls," said TwinStrata CEO Nicos Vekiarides. "We're proud of the designation as a Mezeo Ready Cloud Gateway Solution Partner and that Mezeo has chosen TwinStrata CloudArray SAN software as a key element in its cloud storage offering. CloudArray will deliver solid value to the companies that depend on Mezeo to provide a complete cloud storage solution."

With Mezeo, IT Service Providers can rapidly monetize Storage as a Service with a branded offering. The Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform is easy to deploy, multi-tenant, and highly scalable and secure, with REST Web Services APIs for platform extensibility. It features end-to-end encryption, advanced file sharing and collaboration, content tagging and access anywhere with white label Web 2.0, Windows® desktop, and iPhone and BlackBerry® native clients.

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About TwinStrata
TwinStrata is a pioneer in Cloud Storage SAN solutions, with the industry's first purpose-built architecture to enable simple, affordable and secure storage solutions for enterprise environments using Mezeo Cloud Storage. CloudArray™ software solutions enhance data protection at a substantial cost savings over traditional off-site storage solutions, with a pay-as-you-go growth model, unlimited elastic capacity, local performance, security, and Compute Anywhere™ application access to data. CloudArray enables enterprise-class solutions that include backup and restore, archival storage and data replication. For more information about TwinStrata and CloudArray software, please visit www.twinstrata.com.

About Mezeo Software
Mezeo is the industry's leading provider of a deployable cloud storage platform. Service-enabled, the Mezeo platform is easy to deploy, multi-tenant, highly scalable and secure, with REST Web Services APIs for platform extensibility. With Mezeo, IT Service Providers can rapidly monetize Storage as a Service with a branded offering, and large enterprises can implement a secure, private cloud with clients for BlackBerry®, iPhone, Windows desktop and the Web. Mezeo was named in CRN's list of the 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Products and Top 25 Coolest Emerging Vendors of 2009. For more information, visit www.mezeo.com.

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