InfoStor : Promise Technology Joins The Green Grid-Promise Technology Is Committed to Increasing Energy-Efficiency in the Data Center, August 2008

MILPITAS, CA, Aug 27, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Promise Technology, a global innovator of enterprise-class RAID storage technologies, today announced its membership in The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. Promoting the adoption of energy efficient standards, processes, measurements and technologies, The Greed Grid is comprised of an interactive body of members who share and improve current best practices around data center efficiency. The Green Grid's scope includes collaboration with end users and government organizations worldwide to ensure that each organizational goal is aligned with both developers and users of data center technology.

"Promise Technology is very pleased to be a part of The Green Grid and its quest to improve overall data center efficiencies," said Sam Sirisena, general manager of Promise Technology's Advanced Storage Group. "As a major supplier of enterprise-class RAID solutions, we hope to do our part to advance the innovations for improving energy-savings in the data center. As storage needs grow, so do the requirements for green technologies to minimize our environmental footprint and IT costs."

The Green Grid seeks to provide industry-wide recommendations on best practices, metrics and technologies that will improve overall data center and business computing energy efficiencies. By joining The Green Grid, Promise Technology is helping influence both developers and end users of data center technology.

"As a contributor member of The Green Grid, Western Digital is pleased to be an essential partner of Promise Technology. Together, we can offer solutions that meet the low-power, high-efficiency demands of the modern data center. We are committed to working with Promise Technology to support the goals of The Green Grid," said Tom McDorman, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Storage Solutions Business Unit, WD.

About Promise Technology

Promise Technology, with over 15 million RAID installations worldwide, is committed to customers' data protection needs by delivering fault tolerant storage products across all market segments. Promise has a comprehensive SAS/SATA storage product line including rack-mount RAID enclosures for SAN and DAS applications, PCIe RAID controllers for servers and workstations, NAS systems for SOHO and RAID ASICs for embedded applications.

Headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., the company has ISO-9001 certified R & D centers in the United States, Taiwan and China, and has sales and marketing offices worldwide. For more information, visit Promise Technology's website at www.promise.com.

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Promise Contact: Keith Parker Senior Manager, Marketing Promise Technology, Inc. www.promise.com keith.parker@promise.com 408.228.1545

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