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Santa Fe Springs, CA. November 15, 2006 Chris Yigit

Enhance Technology, Inc. (ETI), a leader in data intensive and digital media storage solutions, today announced the official certification of their High Definition Storage (HDS) UltraStor™ RS8 HDS video RAID systems for use with Matrox Axio HD workstations and board-sets, the leading digital video and graphics hardware and software solutions. The combination of these two technologies offers Matrox Axio HD users a complete, high-performance, post production environment that allows users to realize the full potential of Matrox Axio HD affordably.

“We were very impressed with the performance and quality of RS8 HDS," said Chris Yigit, Matrox’s Chief Validation Engineer. “The systems passed our intensive in-house tests and successfully supported two streams of uncompressed HD and two streams of uncompressed SD simultaneously.” The spectacular result was generated after UltraStor RS8 storage system was paired with Matrox Axio HD editing platform, and Adobe Premiere Pro in Matrox Video Products Group’s testing lab. By working closely with Matrox, UltraStor RS8 HDS ensures quality, performance, and reliability.

UltraStor™ RS8 HDS is the only U320 SCSI host interface storage system certified by Matrox Axio HD to do two streams 10-bit HD with the next generation SATA-II disks and it can store over 10 hours of 10-bit uncompressed HD source material. “UltraStor™ RS8 HDS proved to out-perform other systems on performance and price point”, said Daniel Tai, CTO, Enhance Technology, Inc. “This solution empowers Matrox Axio HD users with the right mix of tools essential to producing high resolution programming without the significant investment usually associated with HD-capable storage technologies,” said Mike Thurston, Enhance Technology’s Director of Business Development.

Matrox Axio HD’s users in broadcasting, post production and project studios will appreciate UltraStor™ RS8 HDS’s embedded high performance 64-bit OS transparent RAID engines and a cutting edge "web-based" graphic user interface providing complete storage control anytime anywhere. Certified by Microsoft Multi-path I/O (MPIO), UltraStor RS8 HDS allows for fault tolerance against single-point of failure and load balancing of I/O traffic. Built-in enterprise features like Snapshot and dynamic online RAID expansion enable UltraStor RS8 HDS to optimize Matrox Axio HD system and application performance and increase productivity results in ultimate HD and SD post production experiences.