micromethod . First of Its Kind SGI InfiniteStorage TP9700 Speeds Access and Simplifies
Management for Data-Intensive Environments

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. The TP9700 array can significantly reduce the time and complexity
required to interact with these increasingly large data sets.8 terabytes of raw
storage and connected via a 4Gb Fibre Channel SAN running the SGI filesystem
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"By exhibiting in VON, we are
looking to explore new opportunities and strengthen our partnerships with
both infrastructure and application vendors. The increased performance of the
TP9700 means that users need far less infrastructure - - adapters, cabling,
switch ports, etc.com/storage.sgi.

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Micromethod Technologies is
headquartered at Milpitas, CA, USA with development center in Beijing,
China. For more information, please visit http://www.micromethod."
Based on the new 6998 Fibre Channel controller that is built on the XBB
high-density storage architecture from Engenio Information Technologies, Inc. These
performance improvements will be integrated into the SGI InfiniteStorage
Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Data Lifecycle
Management (DLM) platforms. SGI's vision is to provide technology
that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the
21st century.

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For these
users, faster data access means greater productivity and shorter time to
discovery . SGI InfiniteStorage Solutions are available directly from SGI or through
SGI Solution Providers worldwide. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil
more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland
security and defense, or enabling the transition from analog to digital
broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for
scientific, engineering and creative users.com., in the United States
and/or other countries worldwide.com/company_info/newsroom/img_library/ .

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PRESS RELEASE Micromethod Technologies Announces SIPMethod Platform 1.0 and Participates in VON San Jose CA

Micromethod Technologies releases SIPMethod
Platform 1.

The general availability of SIPMethod Platform -- standard edition 1.

SGI Delivers Industry First: 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel Storage Array

IT managers are experiencing 80 - 200 % annual growth in data. "The TP9700 is a logical extension to the SGI
InfiniteStorage family and a powerful foundation for data protection,
management, and high-availability features that users have come to rely on
from SGI.
"SGI and Engenio are a natural combination to deliver this market-leading
technology," said Dianne McAdam, partner and senior analyst, Data Mobility
Group .
The SGI TP9700 is available today for IRIX, and Altix platforms. Support
for additional server platforms will be available in the second quarter of
2005. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus
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not a guarantee of future or current performance.

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Micromethod Technologies takes part in Spring VON 2006 show at San Jose,
CA; it demonstrates its commercially available SIPMethod Application Server
run-time engine as well as real-time collaboration toolkits, in booth 2026. For more information, visit: http://www.

This news release contains forward-looking statements regarding SGI
technologies and third-party technologies that are subject to risks and
uncertainties.

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-- to access and manage their storage. "Early integration with major storage market standards like SMI-S and 4
Gbit Fibre Channel is one of the reasons SGI can be viewed as a leading
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"The SGI TP9700 is a dramatic breakthrough in data management, giving
users more data transfer throughput than ever before with even less
complexity ," said Gabriel Broner, senior vice president and general manager,
Storage and Software Group, SGI .,
(Announced separately today: http://www. This gives customers flexibility in how they chose
to use the 1600 MB/s of sustained bandwidth the system delivers., is a leader in high-performance
computing , visualization and storage. With offices worldwide, the
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com or
email info@micromethod.com), the TP9700 delivers
across-the-board performance improvements with eight 4Gb/s Fibre Channel host
-- double previous models. The
demonstration incorporated two TP9700 systems, each with 5.sgi.

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It will be free to download for trial evaluation
at http://www., To address soaring
demand from users for more powerful storage solutions, Silicon Graphics
(NYSE: SGI) today unveiled the SGI(R) InfiniteStorage TP9700 RAID storage
array.

About SGI InfiniteStorage Solutions
SGI InfiniteStorage is a complete line of scalable, high-performance
storage solutions built specifically for data intensive environments .
Available with 64-bit Linux OS-based SGI(R) Altix(R) family of servers and
SGI(R) IRIX(R) OS -based SGI(R) Origin(R), SGI InfiniteStorage solutions for
Intelligent Consolidation, Data Lifecycle Management and Data Protection also
support Solaris(TM), AIX(R), Windows(R), 64- and 32-bit Linux (R), and Mac OS X
systems and other UNIX(R) platforms., and can be found on the Web
at http://www .

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SIPMethod Platform is a platform comprised of SIPMethod
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"Some of the most popular solutions built upon SIPMethod Platform are IP
call center and presence-aware collaboration systems.

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About Micromethod Technologies

Micromethod Technologies is an innovative developer of end-to-end IP
communication and collaboration software for service providers,
enterprises, software vendors and OEM partners . This marks the industry's first Fibre Channel storage array equipped
with a 4Gb/second (gigabit per second) Fibre Channel interface, doubling the
performance of SGI's previous offerings. Bottom line, this
results in lower cost of ownership and far simpler configurations to manage.engenio.

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SIPMethod Application Server is a Java-based, JSR-116 compliant run-time
engine that enables service providers and enterprises to rapidly develop
and deploy SIP solution with rich set of convergent offerings such as IP
telephony, Instant Messaging, conferencing, presence and multimedia . Our SIP solution
toolkits give developers the optimal flexibility and control with multiple
layers of API in building innovative SIP solutions on top of SIPMethod
Platform," says Kevin Lu, CEO of Micromethod.com."
The two companies demonstrated the first 4Gb/s Fibre Channel Storage Area
Network (SAN) at the Supercomputing 2004 exhibition in November 2004. High-performance storage arrays,
including the SGI(R) TP9000 series available with Fibre Channel drives or
Serial ATA, tape libraries and network storage devices are also available from
SGI.

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