DoSTOR Mar 26,2008--Toyou Feiji (Toyou), China's leading provider of storage management solutions and Hifn(TM), the catalyst behind storage and networking innovation professional services, jointly announced today that both parties have established a program for technical cooperation and innovative development.

Additionally, Toyou has selected Hifn's Express DR cards for its hardware-advantaged compression technology. The cards will be deployed in Toyou's NetStor series of products. Toyou is the first Chinese storage vendor to integrate Hifn's Express DR cards, enabling Toyou to deliver a performance -- and capacity-optimized Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solution.

As one of the first professional storage solutions and services providers in China, Toyou Feiji possesses more than 20 years of storage experience and the development of two advanced laboratories and R&D centers.  At present, Toyou Feiji has over 400 employees to provide full-time, local professional support to clients, and is headquartered in Beijing with regional offices in Shanghai,Guangzhou, Chengdu, Xi'an, Ji'nan and Hong Kong.

The combination of Toyou's NetStor VTL with Hifn's Express DR card for capacity optimization will enable enterprise customers to readily solve the backup storage problems they are combating. Leveraging Hifn's hardware --advantaged compression allows Toyou to improve the NetStor VTL appliance's backup speed, and effectively reduce the backup window and disk space required. Hifn's Express DR card on average provides a 2:1 compression advantage, effectively freeing up 50 percent disk space and reducing time, energy costs .

"Toyou is dedicated to offering the best storage management solutions,"said Zexiang Zhou, General Manager of Toyou. "Working with Hifn and its proven technologies is part of our long term plan for innovation and development, enabling Toyou to provide best-of-breed services to our customers throughout China."

"Hifn's Express DR cards have achieved worldwide recognition for their high performance, superior scalability and overall ability to enhance secondary storage, and this agreement validates the need for high performance data reduction -- globally," said Steven Yang, Vice President of Hifn's Asia Pacific Field Operations. "In working with Toyou, we see the NetStor VTL with integrated Express DR as the first step in many of our joint efforts to develop the next-generation storage solutions for the Chinese market."