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COMMANDSOFT, INC. ANNOUNCES THE PARTICIPATION OF iQSTOR IN IT’S CERTIFIED SAN STORAGE PROGRAM® SAN Management Software

Santa Barbara, California ­Tuesday, November 1, 2011: CommandSoft, Inc., the makers of FibreJet, ingenuity that just plain works. Here at CommandSoft we have always been innovators with unmatched industry experience, expertise and passion. At CommandSoft we continue to be committed to pushing boundaries so your work knows no limits. Our goal is to create unique products that extend beyond a single function and enhance every aspect of your entire workflow process. To create products that represent the BEST in storage management software; industry standard open architecture workflow solutions design and implementation that gives you the ability to work together..

To do this CommandSoft has always recognized the need to be hardware agnostic recognizing that one size does not fit all. With this customer friendly view to providing storage management software we have certified a broad range of storage over the past decade. This opens opportunity for our clients to use the hardware that provides cutting edge technology and true competitive marketplace cost advantage in meeting real world work environment goals that stay within budget.

As part of CommandSoft’s dedication to providing flexibility to its end-user base, the company maintained over the years a Certified San Storage Program. The program supplies end-users with partner options in hardware and other peripherals that have been tested and certified both by CommandSoft and in many cases the partnering manufacturer.

The Certified San Storage Program certifies compatibility between FibreJet SAN Management Software and current versions of the participating hardware manufacturerÕs RAID storage offerings.

In October 2011 we had the opportunity to put a brand new storage RAID through it’s paces here in our facility in Santa Barbara, CA. iQstor engineers delivered the iQ-XL 16 Bay RAID chassis for testing and certification with FibreJet SAN Management Software.

Key Features of the iQ-XL as tested:

• Dual Active/Active Controllers
• 8x 8Gb Fibre Channel ports. 4 ports per controller.
• 64bit Intel Quad Core CPU’s per controller.
• 4GB of cache per controller, expandable to 8GB per controller.
• 3U 16 Bay enclosure. Dual controllers will support up to 240 disk drives in JBOD expansion chassis.**

Proof of performance compatibility:

• Tested with 6Gb/s SAS drives.
• Controllers offered support for Windows, Mac OSX as tested (iQstor indicates this unit also supports Linux)
• 16 bay RAID was able to support 4K stream with bandwidth performance over 2000Mb/s; supported multiple streams of 2K; multiple streams of HD, ProRes, and other less demanding resolutions.**
• It’s overall performance was well in excess of the scope of work requirement we have measured to date.**

The iQ-XL storage solution is a performance driven products using best in class design and components to deliver a reliable tool to our creative users. CommandSoft is please to announce this products certification for deployment with FibreJet.

About CommandSoft - www.commandsoft.com

CommandSoft, Inc. is the developer of FibreJet, a next-generation, shared-storage solution for Storage Area Networks (SANs). FibreJet enables file systems to be dynamically shared in a multiple-reader / single-writer environment. CommandSoft was founded by the original developers of FibreNet™, StudioBOSS™, FC Net Director RAID™, SAN Manager™ and other storage software systems. They were among the first Fibre Channel innovators through their development of HBA drivers for Windows™, Solaris™, Macintosh™ OS and IRIX Fibre Channel chip sets from QLogic™, Emulex™, and Agilent™. For more information on the company, its products and its mission, visit the CommandSoft website at:  www.commandsoft.com or call 800-447-0144.

*Support for expansion of file systems requires certain criteria to be met in relation to the configuration of partitions on the storage.

**Some new FibreJet 4.0 SAN Management features are currently available only in Mac OS X environments.

FibreJet® is a trademark of CommandSoft, Inc. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Transoft, FibreNet, StudioBOSS, FC Net Director, SCSI Director and SAN Manager are registered trademarks of Transoft Networks, a Hewlett Packard Company. All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective companies.