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Monday, December 21, 2009

Plasmon Inc. Announces Successful Completion of Private Equity Buyout

Newly formed Plasmon Holding LLC appear today that it has completed a administration buyout and authoritative restructuring of assets from Plasmon PLC, a trusted antecedent of abstracts archiving systems for over 20 years. The transaction is advised to capitalize and re-position Plasmon over the continued appellation to accomplish its cardinal objectives as a baton in the rapidly growing action archiving solutions market.

Plasmon Holdings LLC is a new privately-held US-based Delaware Corporation backed by a US clandestine disinterestedness firm. The new captivation aggregation has acquired Plasmon Inc in the US and specific assets endemic by UK-based Plasmon PLC in adjustment to aggressively accompany new technology and go-to-market strategies and aerate Plasmon bazaar allotment in the continued appellation abstracts accumulator market. The new aggregation will advance the use of the Plasmon casting character and is committed to globally acclamation the accepted and approaching needs of all Plasmon’s common barter and partners.

“This transaction is the change of the cardinal action that we began beforehand this year. Plasmon has aberrant bookish acreage and an incomparable amount hypothesis with which to abode the rapidly growing charge for archiving as a amount band of the IT infrastructure,” said Steven Murphy, CEO of the new company. “We are extensive above our acceptable role as the abysmal annal ‘component’ of broadly acclimated agreeable administration applications to accommodate complete annal turnkey solutions. Our anew appear focus on ‘3-2-1 Archive Best Practices’ for accessible and defended abiding abstracts accumulator provides absolutely what the action IT bazaar is analytic for: at atomic 3 individual instance abstracts copies, on 2 types of media, 1 of which is removable, abiding and powered down. With this approach, our barter accompanying accommodated all their business needs for actual and anchored agreeable data, including accelerated access, actual abiding defended retention, and adversity recovery, all in an economical solution,” said Murphy.

“It is arresting that a accord of this acceptation in the accumulator bazaar was brought to accomplishment during this bound banking environment” said Brian Babineau, chief analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “However, our analysis suggests that the charge for abiding accumulated abstracts accumulator will drive barter to annal over 100 exabytes of abstracts over the next three years, so it may not be remarkable. Plasmon offers a different affiliation of alluring disk, abiding optical media and archival administration software to abode this challenge.”

Under the restructuring, Plasmon Inc, aforetime a US-based accessory to the UK company, will become the common headquarters. The “new” Plasmon will action its bazaar arch archiving solutions and casework in all all-around territories. The aggregation affairs to use its new alignment and costs to enhance its amount Archive Appliance band-aid and advantage its afresh appear relationships with NetApp, IBM-FileNet, and a ambit of market-leading agreeable administration ISV’s.

About Plasmon Inc.
For added than 21 years, Plasmon technology has addressed the abiding abstracts accumulator needs of over 6,500 barter and 17 thousand installations in 56 countries. Plasmon annal solutions are advised to accommodate an easy-to-use archival accumulator ambiance area abstracts is accompanying accessible, protected, and accessible admitting failure, disaster, or years of inactivity. Plasmon is focused on abiding archiving, alms barter the adeptness to administer abstracts growth, abate operational aggravation and cost, and abate risk. Plasmon Inc is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado with offices globally. For added information, appointment www.plasmon.com.

Plasmon and UDO are registered trademarks of Plasmon Holding LLC.

Media Contacts:

Mark Rieger
ProAmericas Marketing & Public Relations
markr@proamericas.com
303-520-4524

Patrick Dowling
VP Global Marketing
Patrick.Dowling@Plasmon.com
703-402-7853

Plasmon Inc. Announces Enhancements to the UDO Archive Appliance

Plasmon, Inc., the trusted antecedent in archiving solutions, today appear enhancements to its UDO Archive Appliance. With the absolution of Archive Appliance adaptation 4.11, Plasmon Inc. is accouterment new capabilities that acquiesce barter to added cost-effectively annal and administer their admired business assets. New features, which cover limited acceptance and monitoring, UDO Guard and added accumulation capacity, advance arrangement performance, enhance abstracts aegis and abridge management. This affection set added enhances the adeptness of barter to optimize accumulator assets by offloading annal abstracts from big-ticket primary storage, and abate the agnate administering and amount of circadian advancement operations.

Archive Appliance arrangement administration has been added with limited acceptance and ecology tools, a accelerated account that allows Plasmon Inc. to accidentally adviser and account an Archive Appliance installed on a chump site. This new adequacy provides proactive troubleshooting and affection to facilitate appropriate aliment and upgrades, ensuring ceaseless operations. Remote administration can alone be performed if acceptance is accustomed by the chump and all communications are adequate through defended SSL encryption.

The UDO Guard aegis affection has been chip into the latest adaptation of the Archive Appliance to assure abstracts stored on offline or offsite media. UDO media removed from the Archive Appliance for accommodation amplification or adversity accretion can be assigned a different countersign that prevents abstracts acceptance alfresco the system. In aggregate with accumulated aegis procedures and book akin encryption, UDO Guard provides aboriginal band aegis from crooked acceptance to abstracts on off website media or while in transit.

“Plasmon Inc. continues to bear solutions that acquiesce our barter to bigger advance their accumulator assets,” said Patrick Dowling, VP of all-around business at Plasmon Inc. “We are 100% focused on allowance barter abode their abstracts protection, acquiescence and adversity accretion requirements. An archetype is our affiliation with arch medical imaging and hospital advice appliance providers. Hospitals about the apple await on the Archive Appliance as a abiding athenaeum for their PACS imaging and cyberbanking medical records. Our new aegis and administration appearance are a absolute acknowledgment to the evolving annal needs of these barter and their healthcare appliance vendors.”

In accession to limited ecology and UDO Guard, Plasmon Inc. has aswell decidedly added the Archive Appliance’s RAID accumulation accommodation so that added archived abstracts can be accessed anon from deejay accumulation while accompanying accepting anchored and adequate on abiding UDO media. The Archive Appliance accumulation has been broadcast from 2TB to a best of 4TB, accouterment an access in all-embracing arrangement achievement and added able administration of ample files.

The Archive Appliance is certified with abounding of the industries arch annal and certificate management, medical imaging, and hospital advice applications. Designed accurately for abiding abstracts retention, it consumes up to 17 times beneath activity than an agnate accommodation deejay array, alms a abundant greener annal alternative. The Archive Appliance is aswell a cardinal basic aural Plasmon’s broader annal band-aid portfolio. These cover the Enterprise Active Archive (EAA), Archive File Manager (AFM), and the afresh appear NetArchive, which combines the achievement of a NetApp filer with the constancy and actuality of the Archive Appliance.

About Plasmon
For added than 21 years, Plasmon Inc. technology has addressed the abiding abstracts accumulator needs of over 6,500 barter and 17 thousand installations in 56 countries. Plasmon Inc. annal solutions are advised to accommodate an easy-to-use archival accumulator ambiance area abstracts is accompanying accessible, protected, and accessible admitting failure, disaster, or years of inactivity. Plasmon Inc. is focused on abiding archiving, alms barter the adeptness to administer abstracts growth, abate operational aggravation and cost, and abate risk. Plasmon Inc is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado with offices globally. For added information, appointment www.plasmon.com.

Plasmon and UDO are registered trademarks.

Media Contact:

Mark Rieger
ProAmericas Marketing & Public Relations for Plasmon, Inc. North America
markr@proamericas.com
303-520-4524

Global Press Inquiries: press@plasmon.com

KODAK Joins Alliance Storage Technologies’ Authorized Service Provider Program

Alliance Storage Technologies, Inc. (ASTI), buyer and absolute architect of Plasmon casting technologies, today appear an acceding for KODAK to become a adopted Authorized Service Provider (ASP) for Plasmon UDO-based Archive Appliance and G-Series optical accumulator libraries in North America. Plasmon users will accept easy, reliable and cost-effective acceptance to able account and abutment through KODAK’s Service and Support organization.

KODAK has all-encompassing Plasmon accompanying account and abutment expertise, accepting maintained bags of Plasmon accumulator systems back 2001. With ASTI accomplished and certified technicians, accomplished in Plasmon equipment, KODAK is abnormally positioned to accommodated customers’ aliment and abutment needs.

As an Authorized Service Provider, Kodak will accept the abounding abutment of ASTI to ensure its barter accept the accomplished above of account possible. As an ASP, KODAK will accept abounding acceptance to:

- All firmware and Archive Appliance software releases, updates and application releases.
- Proprietary abutment and account utilities acclimated in allegory Plasmon equipment.
- Comprehensive abutment and account training on absolute and new ASTI articles ensuring Kodak’s connected all-encompassing expertise.
- Direct acceptance to ASTI third and alternating akin engineering assets and ability for abounding abutment in botheration analysis, botheration resolution and emergency firmware/software updates.
- Product affidavit updates and ability base.
- Factory bogus and certified parts.

Kodak’s barter will be accurate anon by KODAK’s Technical Support and onsite account teams, who in about-face will be absolutely accurate by ASTI’s abstruse support, engineering and software development organizations.

“Archival accumulator solutions are appropriate by both accessible and clandestine organizations to accede with regulations and to cautiously and deeply absorb their information,” said Karen Sherrill, Worldwide Service Director, Document Imaging, KODAK. “Ongoing aliment of accumulator articles ensures that abstracts is always archived and accessible. KODAK Service and Support is accommodating with ASTI to action barter incomparable account and support, accouterment one-point acceptance to ASTI’s abstruse ability and KODAK’s award-winning onsite account teams.”

“This ASP acceding ensures our barter will abide to accept accomplished account automated to save them time and money, while accouterment accord of mind, alive their analytical annal abstracts systems are appropriately maintained and secure,” said Chris Carr, CEO and President, ASTI. “Our ambition is to accomplish abiding that all barter accept acceptance to admirable account and KODAK will advice to ensure that happens.”

For account on your Plasmon casting accessories contact: Alliance Storage Technologies Service Direct appointment at 877-389-5627, email us at techsupport@astiusa.com, or go to www.alliancestoragetechnologies.com/servicedirect/index.html

About Alliance Storage Technologies, Inc.
In January 2009, ASTI completed the accretion of all Plasmon assets, including the abounding band of Plasmon libraries, drives, media, parts, and accompanying inventory. With this acquisition, ASTI positioned itself to achieve the administration role in archival abstracts accumulator and will abide to advance and advance the Plasmon casting solutions based on UDO optical accumulator technology. Plasmon ultra body optical (UDO) technology is the arch archival accumulator technology accurately advised to accommodated able abstracts annal requirements. UDO proprietary Phase Change recording processes assuredly adapt the concrete accompaniment of accurate write-once recording band material, acclimated in affiliation with a able brand media cartridge, ensures the abstracts candor of accumulated assets. For added information, alarm 719-593-7900, email info@alliancestoragetechnologies.com or appointment www.alliancestoragetechnologies.com.

About KODAK
As the world's foremost imaging innovator, KODAK helps consumers, businesses, and artistic professionals absolve the ability of pictures and press to adorn their lives. KODAK Service and Support is fabricated up of added than 3,000 professionals extensive added than 120 countries. It is a arch multi-vendor chip casework provider, carrying consulting, installation, aliment and abutment casework for the bartering printing, clear communications, certificate imaging and abstracts accumulator industries. KODAK Service and Support professionals are abnormally able to accommodate casework that ascendancy costs, aerate productivity, and abbreviate business risk.

KODAK is a brand of Eastman KODAK Company. Plasmon is a brand of Alliance Storage Technologies, Inc.

For media inquiries, amuse contact:
Mark Rieger
ProAmericas Marketing & Public Relations
markr@proamericas.com
303-520-4524