Knox Software Releases the 2002 Arkeia Power Awards Small Office Category
Award Goes To Exabyte

LinuxWorld Expo  New York City, NY  January 30, 2002 - Knox Software Corp.,
a Southern California-based supplier of network backup software, has
released the winning companies of the 2002 Arkeia Power Awards. The Arkeia
Power Awards are an objective formula-based benchmarking analysis that will
determine the best price-to-performance storage hardware library. This
year's Arkeia Power Award for Small Office solutions is awarded to Exabyte
Corporation for their EZ17 Autoloader, which received the highest category
score, reaching 9.08. 

"We are very pleased to be this year's recipient of the Arkeia Power Award.
Our Exabyte EZ17 autoloader provides small office users a compelling storage
solution at an excellent value for data backup, archival and restoration,"
stated Peri Grover, Director of Automation Product Marketing. 

Created to provide an independent, real-world objective analysis of the
performance and cost comparison of the various hardware manufacturers in the
storage library marketplace, the Arkeia Power Awards highlight the actual
throughput and weighs that performance against the street price of the
solution. 

Utilizing our own certification lab we can measure the performance of
various manufacturer's hardware and benchmark that performance against other
manufacturers, noted Knox Software's Jay Jason Bartlett, Director of
Strategic Relations. 

We continually receive requests from our customers asking us which library
hardware we recommend. With the Arkeia Power Award we are able to
objectively showcase real-world conditions that our customers would
understand and allow for an informed buying decision,² stated Philippe
Roussel, CEO of Knox Software. 

The Arkeia Power Awards are delivered twice a year at the LinuxWorld Expos.
Exabyte's award will be presented to them at the LinuxWorld Expo in New York
City on January 30th. Other benchmarking data and winners will also be on
display. You can see the complete report on the Arkeia web site:
http://www.arkeia.com/apa.html. 

Media Note 
Arkeia Power Analysis benchmark reports are available for reprint.
One-on-one interviews or additional information about Arkeia is available by
request. 

About Knox Software 
Noted for its early and comprehensive support for the Linux open source
operating system, Knox Software is a leading provider of enterprise network
backup solutions. Founded in 1996, the company's mission is to provide fast,
reliable, easy-to-use and affordable network backup solutions for
heterogeneous networks. Knox Software is privately held and has offices in
Carlsbad, California and Paris, France. For further information about Arkeia
and Knox Software, please visit Knox's web site at http://www.arkeia.com or
send an email to press@arkeia.com


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Taylor Allis
Manager, Corporate Communications/Investor Relations
Exabyte Corporation 
1685 38th Street
Boulder, CO 80301

Phone: 303-417-7347
Fax: 303-417-7170
E-mail: taylora@exabyte.com
www.exabyte.com