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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REALSCALE TECHNOLOGIES DELIVERS THE FIRST HIGH AVAILABILITY BLADE SERVER CLUSTER RUNNING ON LINUX RealScale's i-Cluster(tm) Based Blade Servers come pre-installed with Linux Red Hat 6.2 or Red Hat 7.1. Sophia Antipolis, France - September 24th 2001 - RealScale Technologies Inc. today announced the availability for delivery of the first High-Availability Blade Server cluster. Based on Intel® architecture, it operates on Red Hat Linux 6.2 and 7.1. "RealScale's i-Cluster(tm) is incontestably the most standard and open Blade Server cluster available on the market today." said Serge Dujardin, President of RealScale Technologies. The i-Cluster(tm) can host up to 240 Blade Servers in a standard 19" rack. Holding potentially 12 servers and 2 redundant Fast Ethernet switches - all hot swappable -, up to 20 'appliance' chassis can be centrally managed through a choice of industry recognized interfaces (secured web, i-Shell command line interface and SNMP) for easy deployment in the customer environment. "The i-Cluster(tm) is a groundbreaking platform which provides unequalled server density with low energy consumption, outstanding manageability and redundancy plus unique features such as 'One-Click Service Provisioning' to the Linux-based server space. All critical hardware components are hot swappable and redundant. Full elimination of Single Point of Failure has been achieved through a specific implementation, both at the hardware and the operating system levels. Today, the i-Cluster(tm) is the only Linux based Blade Server cluster which provides real High-Availability solution services." said Jean-Christophe Pari, CTO of RealScale Technologies. The new i-Cluster(tm) offering is ready for shipment. Prices for i-Cluster(tm) based Blade Servers start at $990. For more information about price and availability, please contact RealScale at: sales@realscale.com. About RealScale Technologies RealScale Technologies, Inc. is a pioneer and leader of Blade Server Technology. Early in 2000, RealScale released the i-Cluster(tm), the first patent pending Intel®-based Blade Server platform. Today RealScale delivers to Enterprises, Service Providers and OEMs the most comprehensive range of Blade Servers in the market. RealScale brings to its clients the most open, flexible and scalable managed Blade Server platform based on an industry proven server architecture (Intel®-based) while enabling unequalled availability, high server density and extremely low power consumption. Founded in 1997 by Serge Dujardin and Jean-Christophe Pari, the company's European headquarters are located in Sophia Antipolis, France. RealScale Technologies and i-Cluster(tm) are trademarks of RealScale Technologies Inc. and its affiliates. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. For more information, visit the RealScale web site at www.realscale.com or contact: RealScale Technologies, Inc. Serge Dujardin, President Tel: +33 4 93 95 68 70 email: press@realscale.com