Enterprise Managed Hosting services provider OC3 Networks selects ParaScale software as its cloud storage solution

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ParaScale, Inc., a startup company developing cloud storage software solutions,
today announced that OC3 Networks, a leading Los Angeles-based regional provider
of enterprise managed hosting services, has selected ParaScale software as its
cloud storage solution.

“Our customers are always facing storage related challenges and we are being
proactive in providing innovative alternatives,” said Ilan Mishan, CEO of OC3
Networks. “After a competitive evaluation, we have selected ParaScale as the
basis of our cloud storage solution. We were particularly impressed by the fact
that ParaScale delivers a complete solution including access, a comprehensive
storage repository and integration and manageability in the context of our
existing systems. For every server deployment moving forward, OC3 customers will
have direct access over our innovative Private Network to 5GB of free storage to
use as they choose. Growth past the complimentary storage will be provided
seamlessly as the customers needs grow. ParaScale`s platform allows us to
interoperate with customers` existing applications with zero change and will
provide our customers a fully managed storage solution that will allow them to
manage data growth efficiently, securely and affordably.”

“Cloud storage is the ideal starting point for cloud providers as it is an
easier entry point to the market segment when compared with the cost and
complexity of integrating other cloud computing technologies, and customers are
buying it,” said Antonio Piraino, analyst at Tier-1 Research. “Cloud services
overall are growing at 100% year-over-year for the foreseeable future. In a
tough economic environment, this is one of the few bright spots.” Cloud storage
continues to be a focus and starting point for many providers looking to offer
cloud services. Relatively, cloud computing (renting CPU cycles by the hour) is
a medium term opportunity, as it is more complex for the hosting company to
deliver, while still requiring the end-customer to have the expertise and time
to package up an application to run in the cloud.

By combining ParaScale software and buyer selected standard servers, managed
service providers can build different types of storage clouds and offer a
variety of unique high-margin, high-value storage cloud services with security
and superior performance. ParaScale clouds can be built with practically any
kind of Linux server, and a single cloud can consist of different server models,
including repurposed servers. Re-using existing servers and turning off-contract
server assets into substantive top-line cloud storage opportunities, by simply
using ParaScale software is appealing in the current economic climate.

“Looking into Q4 and Q1 many service providers are planning to deploy cloud
storage,” said Sajai Krishnan, CEO of ParaScale. “Customers are going to have
several choices and service providers have to ask themselves how they can
differentiate and thrive against the at-scale mass-market players like Amazon
and Google. The highly capable technical and sales teams at OC3 are looking at
cloud storage offerings that can help their existing and new customers delay
expensive storage capex. Potential new services under consideration include
hosted VM repositories, high performance multi-media distribution platforms,
private secure hosted clouds amongst others. This innovative team is looking to
bring practical new cloud storage services to their customers and fly above the
me-too storage cloud.”

Supporting Resources:

Video interview with ParaScale CEO by WHIR TV about the easy-to-deploy and
easy-to- operate cloud storage platform:
http://www.thewhir.com/tv/view/093009_WHIR_tv_interviews_Sajai_Krishnan_CEO_of_Parascale

Creating a cloud storage offering white paper:
http://www.parascale.com/index.php/cloud-storage-for-service-providers

About OC3:

OC3 Networks is a Los Angeles, CA corporation leading in the dedicated server,
colocation, and complex managed solutions niches. OC3 Networks privately owns
and operates five datacenters totaling square footage of over 55,000SQFT and is
the single largest tenant in the Telecom Center Los Angeles building at 530 West
6th Street. OC3 Networks also holds space located in Dallas, Texas for Disaster
Recovery, Geographically Diverse Load Balanced Solutions, and Stand Alone
Dedicated Servers and Colocation. The Los Angeles and Dallas datacenters are
interconnected using OC3 Networks innovative “Private Network” infrastructure
which allows for secure, internal transfer between a clients infrastructure with
on-demand scaling and growth without regard to specific server rack, building
floor, or geographic region. For more information on ParaScale Cloud Storage
Solutions provided by OC3 Networks, please contact sales@oc3networks.com.

About ParaScale, Inc.

ParaScale is headquartered in Silicon Valley and is the leader in cloud storage
software that enables service providers to easily deploy storage cloud service
offerings in under a month. As a software-only solution that can be downloaded
from the web and applied to any standard Linux platform, ParaScale Cloud Storage
enables hundreds of commodity servers to be clustered together to act as a file
repository with massive capacity and parallel throughput. For more information
visit www.parascale.com.

All product names and references remain the trademarks or registered trademarks
of their respective owners.

ParaScale, Inc.
Beth Winkowski, 978-649-7189
bwinkowski@parascale.com