LONGMONT, Colorado, November 16, 2004 - Conduant Corporation (www.conduant.com), the leading developer of direct-to-disk, long duration recording and playback systems, announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with Mountain Optech, Inc. (MOI), developer of ruggedized disk storage systems. Through the partnership, both companies will combine their technology strengths to pursue market opportunities with U.S. government, military and contract organizations.
"By joining forces with Mountain Optech, we are offering our customers the highest performance, error-free recording and playback technology with the best in "rugged" storage systems," said Ken Owens, CEO of Conduant. "Conduant, together with Mountain Optech, has raised the bar for the new standard in rugged disk recorders offering performance, reliability and extremely competitive pricing as compared to solid state alternatives. Whether it's high above the earth or in the depths of an ocean, our StreamStor and Big River data recorders perform reliably at the highest data rates available in the industry today."
"We look forward to a long-term partnership with Conduant as we pursue market opportunities that will benefit from our complementary technologies," said Mark Poling, Mountain Optech's Chief Executive Officer. "We are both pioneers in our areas of expertise. Together we offer reliable, best-in-class data acquisition and mass storage systems to defense and commercial operations with the most demanding environmental requirements."
About Mountain Optech, Inc.
Mountain Optech, Inc. (MOI), founded in 1985, is a subsidiary of Phillips Service Industries, Inc. MOI modifies commercial drives for superior performance in rugged environments. To meet military and rugged commercial platform standards, MOI incorporates active heaters, forced-air cooling, isolation systems, EMI/EMC shielding, extended temperature range control firmware and conformal coating. For more information, please visit http://www.mountainoptech.com.
About Conduant
Conduant Corporation (http://www.conduant.com), founded in 1996, develops the StreamStor/Big River families of PCI and CompactPCI disk controllers for high-speed recording and playback of digital data. Solutions are available in Windows, Linux and VxWorks environments and are used in scientific research, military, aerospace and instrumentation applications. Conduant's products are guaranteed and will sustain data rates up to and beyond 200 MBytes/second. In 2004, Conduant ranked 172nd in Inc. Magazine's Inc. 500, 9th in the Deloitte and Touche Fast 50 in Colorado and 228th in DeloitteÕs Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the fastest growing technology companies in North America. Conduant is a privately held company located in Longmont, Colorado.
About Big River
Conduant's Big River Recorders provide industry leading recording and playback technology in industrial strength portable or rack mount enclosures. All systems are factory configured with a Conduant StreamStor controller, disk drives, and motherboard/operating system or PCI/PXI expansion systems.
About StreamStor
StreamStor disk array controllers provide long duration digital recording and playback at guaranteed sustained data rates up to two hundred megabytes/second. StreamStor integrates with a wide array of custom and commercial off-the-shelf data acquisition and output hardware.
Randy Burgess
Conduant Corp.
Tel: (303) 485-2721, x116
randy@conduant.com
Yvonne Lynott
Lynott & Associates
Tel: 303.651.1771
ylynott@lynottpr.com