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BREECE HILL AND FRONT PORCH DIGITAL COLLABORATE TO PROVIDE DIGITAL ARCHIVE IN A BOX SOLUTION
Partners Integrate To Capture Entry Level Broadcast Archive Market Opportunities
Louisville, CO and Boulder, CO, USA, September 22, 2004 — Breece Hill LLC of Louisville, CO, USA, and Front Porch Digital (OTCBB: FPDI) of Boulder, CO, USA today jointly announced that will they combine Front Porch’s market-leading DIVArchive archive management application with Breece Hill’s iStoRA 4000 hardware platform. The new “Archive in a Box” storage solution is ideally positioned to meet the start-up digital archive needs of small to medium broadcast facilities.
The new Front Porch Digital “Archive in a Box” product was successfully demonstrated at the International Broadcast Conference in Amsterdam earlier this month and received strong interest from Broadcasters attending the show. The iStoRA 4000 from Breece Hill is an integrated hardware appliance combining a Microsoft Windows-based server, up to 2.4 terabytes of SATA RAID disk, and up to 5 terabytes of tape storage in a single 4U rack mount enclosure.
When combined with the DIVArchive software the iStoRA appliance provides a complete cost effective archive solution in a single package. With more than 75 reference sites worldwide, DIVArchive is the leading storage management software among European and Asian broadcasters.
“We have been careful to select a partner that exhibits the same concern and compassion for their customers as we do at Breece Hill,” said Jon Cheney, Breece Hill’s United Kingdom Sales Director. “DIVArchive is an excellent complement to the Breece Hill iStoRA 4000 appliance, and Front Porch Digital is known for its excellent product quality and customer support services. We believe our integrated solution is very compelling for first time buyers of entry level digital archive projects.”
“DIVArchive is the proven choice of the largest media brands with the most complex requirements, but we see more opportunities emerging with independent and regional broadcast stations,” said Rino Petricola, managing director and vice president, Front Porch Digital International. “Our work with Breece Hill is an aggressive step toward capturing more of the entry level digital archive market. DIVArchive is then ideally positioned to provide broadcasters with a scalable upgrade path as their needs grow and evolve. I believe our success at the highest end of the market will add credibility to our marketing efforts as we pursue this new segment.”
About Breece Hill
Breece Hill (www.breecehill.com) manufactures innovative and cost-effective information storage and retrieval solutions, including the ISTORA 4000™ D2D2T storage appliance family, Integrity ™ Storage Management Software, tape autoloaders and libraries, and MaxOptix ™ Magneto-Optical (MO) drives and media. The Breece Hill tape automation line, continuously marketed and supported since 1993, spans from entry-level autoloaders to mid-range libraries, with more than 25,000 units shipped worldwide. Breece Hill’s Information Storage and Retrieval Architecture (iStoRA™), introduced in 2003, is a disk-to-disk-to-removable storage platform. For more information, contact Breece Hill at www.breecehill.com or (800) 941-0550.
About Front Porch Digital
Front Porch Digital, Inc. (OTCBB: FPDI) soon to be known as Incentra Solutions, Inc., is a supplier of storage management products and services to broadcasters, media companies, mid-sized enterprises and IT service providers worldwide. The Front Porch Digital Broadcast and Media Services Division (www.fpdigital.com) is a leader in providing unique software, services and integrated hardware solutions for digital archive management to broadcasters and media companies worldwide. The Company’s ManagedStorage International subsidiary (www.msiservice.com) helps organizations control storage management costs by providing outsourced data protection and guaranteed data management services to enterprise and service provider customers across all types of storage systems, both on-site and remotely.
Front Porch Digital, Inc. Forward Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which reflect Front Porch Digital Inc.’s current views with respect to future events and financial performance. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated from such forward-looking statements. The potential risk factors include Front Porch Digital Inc.’s limited operating history and experience in the data and video digital conversion business, Front Porch Digital Inc.’s ability to attract significant additional financing and incur operational losses and negative cash flow, and risks associated with expansion. Additional risk factors are set forth in Front Porch Digital’s reports and documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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