News Release
January 16, 2007

University College Falmouth pledges to be a Pillar of education
~ SAN from storage specialist supports innovative IT infrastructure~

University College Falmouth (UCF), one of the UK's leading university colleges of art, design and media, has enhanced storage capabilities in its innovative IT infrastructure by selecting the Pillar Axiom™ storage system.

The SAN storage system will consolidate operational, academic and personal data held within UCF's new IT infrastructure, which underpins operations at its Hub Tremough campus, which the University College has been developing since it acquired the site in 1999.

UCF has played a leading role in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC) project, which provides opportunities for Cornish students to remain in the county post-graduation. To date, the project has attracted £ 120million of Objective One European funding. Part of this funding has enabled the university to provide students with a high-tech and flexible learning environment, including podcasting lectures and VoIP in all student residences.

The purchase of a storage system from Pillar Data Systems will enable the university to cope with the growing student numbers from both within and outside the county, as well as meet the requirements of data protection legislation. The system will give the university the capability to expand storage provision securely out to students and staff so that personal documents can also be housed on the system.

University staff were impressed with the simplicity of the Pillar Axiom. It can be easily broken down into core components for staff to understand how the system works as a whole, with minimal training. The system will store the University College's Exchange Email, Oracle databases and 4 MIS applications on a single platform. Pillar's AxiomONE storage management software enables the University College to deliver different levels of performance to individual applications from a single cost-effective drive technology.

'Pillar's fresh approach to delivering a simple, easy-to-manage solution convinced us that its Pillar Axiom was the storage system we needed,' said Nathan Prisk, Head of IT at UCF. By choosing a new player in the storage market, we felt sure that our views would have an impact and our feedback would actually be taken into consideration. The customer support package from first contact, to pre-sales, to post-sales was carried out with extreme professionalism.'

'The Combined Universities in Cornwall project is transforming the world of higher education and is putting Cornwall firmly on the map for students,' said Chris Jones, VP of sales EMEA at Pillar Data Systems. 'Ensuring a secure and flexible storage solution is in place at UCF will underpin the expansive and ambitious IT infrastructure, which allows students to experience a revolutionary approach to learning.'

For more information about Pillar Data Systems visit: www.pillardata.co.uk

Notes to Editors

About University College Falmouth
University College Falmouth is internationally respected for the quality of its undergraduate and postgraduate courses in art, design and media. It is the only Higher Education Institution in the UK to have been awarded 24 out of 24 for the quality of its teaching in art and design at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the Quality Assurance Agency�s most recent assessment.

The College has over 2000 students and two campuses: the historic Woodlane in Falmouth; and Tremough near Penryn, which is shared - in a collaboration that is unique in the UK � with the University of Exeter.

Founded in 1902, University College Falmouth gained the power to award degrees in its own name in 2004 and was granted the status and title of University College in 2005. It is the only degree-awarding body in Cornwall.

University College Falmouth is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through higher education. The CUC is funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.

About Pillar Data Systems
Founded in 2001, Pillar Data Systems develops enterprise network storage systems. The company's Pillar Axiom solution, driven by its innovative policy-based management capabilities, integrates SAN and NAS into a centrally managed storage platform. Pillar Axiom systems consolidate multiple tiers of enterprise network storage into a single, easily managed system capable of scaling to hundreds of terabytes of capacity.

Pillar Data Systems is privately funded by Tako Ventures, LLC, the venture arm of Larry Ellison. The company is headquartered in San Jose.. The EMEA headquarters is in Ireland, with initial operations across Ireland, UK, Germany and France.