Shutterfly Chooses DataDirect Networks S2A9550 Storage Solution to Power its Image Archive

Shutterfly Deploys 2.5PB of Primary Storage - Touts S2A9550's Fault Tolerance

Las Vegas, NV, April 17, 2007 - DataDirect Networks Inc., the storage performance and capacity leader, announced today that it has delivered and installed multiple S2A9550 storage solutions equal to 2.5 PB, to Shutterfly, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFLY), an Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service. DataDirect's S2A9550 is the industry's highest performing and most dense storage solution.

Shutterfly chose the S2A9550 based on its ability to meet the company's requirements for scalability, high performance, high availability and fault tolerance. DataDirect's S2A9550 is being used as the primary storage pool to store customer data.

"Preserving our customers' digital memories is crucial to maintaining our customers' trust," said Jeff Whitehead, vice president of internet operations & chief information officer at Shutterfly. "Shutterfly selected DataDirect Networks in large part due to their high density storage, total cost of ownership, fault tolerance and availability, which helps us to further secure our rapidly growing archive of over one billion images."

The S2A9550 incorporates enterprise-class data protection like on-the-fly parity checking of all read I/Os, and hardware RAID 6. The S2A9550's pioneering hardware RAID 6 controller protects data in the event of a double disk failure in the same redundancy group, without adversely affecting data availability or system performance.

"We're pleased that the S2A9550 met Shutterfly's benchmarks for a scalable, robust and easy-to-manage storage sub-system for their proprietary architecture," added Paul Bloch, president of DataDirect Networks. "The S2A9550 allows Shutterfly to easily scale their storage without expensive re-architecting while providing the highest levels of Quality of Service for consistent, predictable data delivery to real-life application environments."

About Shutterfly
Founded in 1999, Shutterfly, Inc. is an Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service. Shutterfly provides high quality products and world class services that make it easy, convenient and fun for consumers to preserve their digital photos and to tell their stories in a creative and thoughtful manner. Shutterfly has more than one billion images stored in its digital archive. More information about Shutterfly (NASDAQ:SFLY) is available at www.shutterfly.com. Shutterfly and Shutterfly.com are trademarks of Shutterfly, Inc.

About DataDirect Networks
DataDirect Networks is the world's leading provider of high performance, high capacity network storage solutions. Focused on driving customer-centric innovation, DataDirect Networks has created the Silicon Storage Appliance as the essential building block for High Performance Computing, Internet-based Services and Rich Media storage solutions. DataDirect Networks' award winning Silicon Storage Appliance enables the creation of differentiated high performance, high capacity NAS and SAN storage, parallel and shared file system storage, primary and nearline storage, and virtual tape library storage solutions. Each solution offers unsurpassed performance, high availability, cost effective scalability and simplified management delivering the industry's best price per performance and best per capacity per square foot solutions.

Launched in 1998 and headquartered in California, DataDirect Networks has an established global presence with research and development, and operations in the United States, Europe and Asia. For more information, contact DataDirect Networks at (818) 700-7600 or visit www.datadirectnet.com.

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