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ATTO Technology, Inc., headquartered in Amherst, New York, is a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments. It is our vision to provide a wide range of end-to-end solutions to help customers better store, manage and deliver their data. We believe that our company's experience in engineering advanced technology into real-world product solutions provides customers a unique competitive advantage.

With a focus toward markets that require higher performance, ATTO manufactures host adapters, RAID adapters, bridges, RAID storage controllers, switches and management software. Our solutions are based on providing a high level of connectivity to all storage interfaces including SCSI, SATA, iSCSI (Internet SCSI), Gigabit Ethernet, SAS and Fibre Channel.

Founded in 1988 by Timothy J. Klein and David A. Snell, ATTO has established a solid business model with a strong track record of profitability. This model is based on continuously building on our core technology base to develop unique, quality products while establishing long-term customer relationships. All of our products are engineered and manufactured in the United States allowing more direct control of quality and customization. Our company has delivered more than an estimated 1.5 million products to the market, in a broad range of storage applications and environments including:

Storage-intensive applications such as database management, online transaction processing (OLTP), E-mail, Internet serving and document management solutions. Streaming media applications such as digital video, digital audio, film, broadcast and video-on-demand solutions. Image-intensive applications such as mapping, pre-press, publishing, printing, CAD/CAM, medical and document imaging. Server environments for direct attach and/or network attached storage such as SAN and NAS with disk, tape, optical, CD or other storage media. Enterprise backup environments such as tape library connectivity, disk-based backup and serverless backup solutions. Embedded specialty environments demanding performance and connectivity solutions for data storage and movement.

ATTO's products are sold worldwide directly to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and systems integrators as well as through ATTO authorized distributors and resellers. Our OEM customers encompass a wide range of prestigious technology companies including Apple Computer, EMC – Data General, Eastman Kodak, Quantum, SUN Microsystems, Avid Technology, Overland Storage, NEC, ADIC, Unisys and many more. ATTO's ability to tailor products to the needs of our OEM customers derives from a flexible, systems-level approach to embedded solutions. Attention to maximizing the overall system performance is the reason we have been successful in establishing ongoing alliances with so many leading companies. With a vast knowledge of high-end computing, ATTO has been able to leverage its advanced technology into the full range of platform support including Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac, Sun and various proprietary systems.

ATTO works closely with Independent Software Vendors (ISV), hardware vendors and industry groups to ensure interoperability and easy integration for our customers. Conformance to industry standards and open-system architectures (including standard form factors) accelerates our customers efforts to ensure system-wide interoperability and quicker time-to-market. Part of our commitment to developing industry-leading storage solutions, is ATTO's state-of-the-art interoperability lab where design validation, application testing and extensive 3rd party product testing is attained.

Our award winning product lines are designed to satisfy a comprehensive range of OEM and end-users' storage needs in breadth of products and solution sets. Our products are developed from a synergistic core architecture of hardware and software, which is leveraged across all product lines. Leveraging this core technology also helps accelerate deployment into new markets and entirely new product categories. From host adapters and bridges to storage controllers and software our products are designed to efficiently and cost-effectively help customers manage, store and deliver their data. Leveraging new storage architectures and transport protocols our products deliver blazing fast performance, one click installation and smooth data streaming. Our products are:

Host Adapters Celerity FC – Fibre Channel Host Adapters ExpressPCI SCSI – SCSI Host Adapters ExpressSAS – SAS/SATA Host and RAID Adapters Network Adapters FastFrame™ – 10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC Bridges FibreBridge™ – Fibre Channel-to-SCSI Bridges iPBridge™ – iSCSI Bridges for Fibre Channel and SCSI Storage Controllers FastStream™ SC – Fibre Channel-to-Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel-to-SAS/SATA, and SAS/SATA-to-SAS/SATA Storage Controllers Switches FibreConnect™ – Fibre Channel Switches Software ExpressStripe for Mac® – SCSI, SAS and Fibre Channel RAID-level utilities Express ProTools – Utility Software for Storage Disk Management Xtend SAN – iSCSI Mac® OS X Initiator Driver Express Power Center for Windows® – SCSI, SAS and Fibre Channel RAID-level utilities

Our management team consists of:       Timothy J. Klein       President & CEO, co-founder       David A. Snell       CTO & Vice President of Engineering, co-founder       James F. Masiello       Vice President of Finance       Timothy J. Boser       Vice President of Operations

ATTO Technology, Inc., is located at 155 CrossPoint Parkway, Amherst, New York 14068
Phone: (716) 691-1999, Fax: (716) 691-9353
Website is www.attotech.com