DIGITAL TEAMS WITH AVAIL TO PROVIDE LEADING HIERARCHICAL STORAGE MANAGEMENT
(HSM) SOLUTIONS

New Driver Lets Avail NetSpace Users Reap the Benefits of Digital's
Durable, High-Performance Tape Technology

Boulder, Colorado--April 19, 1994 - Digital Equipment Corporation and Avail
Systems Corporation announced today the availability of a driver that
makes Avail's award-winning hierarchical storage management (HSM) software
compatible with Digital's line of capacity- and performance-leading
digital linear tape (DLT) drives and mini-libraries. Avail's DLT Storage
Capacity Kit enables Avail NetSpace users to benefit from the speed,
durability and reliability of DLT, a tape technology that offers five
times the durability and up to four times the performance of competing
tape technologies.

The DLT Storage Capacity Kit is available as a bundle with DLT through
resellers and distributors. Evaluation units of the DLT Storage Capacity
Kit will be available May, 1994, with volume shipments scheduled for July,
1994. Suggested list price for the DLT kit is $2549 for 100 GB of storage
capacity.

"Digital is pleased to have the industry leader in HSM software for Novell
support our DLT technology as an Ideal solution for HSM environments,"
said Jack Sharp, business manager of Digital's OEM Storage Business.
"Avail's HSM offerings, which are designed to make Novell network storage
easy, efficient and cost-effective, are an excellent complement to our DLT
solutions."

"We are impressed with Digital's commitments to manufacturing tape storage
solutions that excel in HSM environments." said Robert Wight, Avail's
president and CEO. "DLT's long media life, durability and reliability
combined with our NetSpace HSM software substantially reduces the cost of
ownership of network storage systems and streamlines system management."

Avail NetSpace is an expert, rule-based system that automatically stores
all network files on storage peripherals, such as tape drives and
libraries, that are selected to optimize both cost of storage and data
access time. Avail NetSpace provides transparent maintenance and retrieval
of network data at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage.

Digital's industry-leading DLT tape products are designed to meet the
capacity and reliability needs of high duty-cycle HSM applications. DLT
offers 500,000 media passes (in stop-start mode), while competing tape
technologies promote only 5,000. In addition, DLT's industry leading
10,000 hour head life virtually eliminates premature head wear out in high
duty cycle applications such as HSM.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server
solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information
systems. Digital's scaleable Alpha AXP platforms, storage, networking,
software and services, together with industry-focused solutions from
business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global
marketplace.

Avail is the leading developer of Hierarchical Storage Management software
for Novell networks. Avail's products recently received several top
industry awards, including finalist for PC Magazine's Technical Excellence
Award for Networking Software (12/93) and VARBusiness's Storage Product of
the Year Award (1/94). Founded in 1991, Avail Systems is a privately held
corporation, funded by Hambrecht & Quest venture capitalists and Aweida
Ventures. For further information about Avail's products or a local
resellers, contact Avail at 1-800-96-AVAIL, or FAX at (303) 546-4219

Avail Systems
4760 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80301
303-444-4018,  fax 303-546-4219

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