ASSOCIATIONS

HexiSTOR is an SEC authorized third party technical consultant to provide SEC 17a-4 compliant email management systems to broker/dealers. HexiSTOR's IT infrastructure (firewalls, encrypted network and software that stores unique sequence of data objects) is compliant with the data privacy, security, integrity and permanence specified in HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Graham-Leach-Bliley and the Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP).

We understand the backup problems faced by users; large data growth, need for long term storage, need to keep many versions of files, integration with your back office and email applications, coupled with shrinking backup windows.

• Alternative to tape backup and archive for long term data storage
• Reduce cost of labor intensive tape backups
• Quick restores to user requirements
• Off-site backup storage for disaster recovery

Protecting the data that makes business run is an absolute requirement for companies everywhere. Effective backup, safe offsite storage, and easy recovery are essential to ensure business operations. Companies using tape-based backup often have difficulty with backup and recovery reliability problems. Slow recovery times and errors inherent to manual tape handling processes are common. Companies are moving to online backup to eliminate these difficulties and to achieve a range of advantages

Since inception and our experience with Chicago's financial community, where the cost of downtime was measured in millions of dollars per second and data availability is 100%, we were exposed to a highly regulated environment with exponential data growth rates. Our challenge was to implement next generation backup technology, delivering cost effective and highly available backup and disaster recovery systems for a knowable and demanding customer base. Our mission is to anticipate the business and technology trends and to adopt systems that pass the cost savings on to our customers. HexiSTOR has a track record as a technology innovator. We have earned that reputation by integrating leading edge backup technology with Internet connectivity to drive down costs and by working with our clients to build a resilient enterprise.

Hexistor's proven data protection service is built on

• Technology innovation
• Data protection proof of concept successfully tested in clients' backup environment
• Data protection delivered as utility

In 2003, we integrated next-generation backup data deduplication technology with the ubiquitous Internet to automate the backup and reduced the cost of traditional tape-based backup.

In 2007, Hexistor launched Rapid Recovery using a patented snapshot technology that creates a transportable image, including the operating system, applications, databases, and configurations of individual files and folders, independent of the hardware platform that can be restored directly to and from any virtual or physical environment.

The disk imaging software is flexible and provides many options for creating local backups. For example, the backup file created can be used for bare metal restore. That way, if a server completely fails, you can get back online running on either your existing server or a new system with different hardware.

We copy the disk image over an Internet connection and store it on disks at our secure carrier-grade data centers for complete off-site disaster recovery.

In 2008, Hexistor partnered with EMC to launch a subscription based data protection solution in a VMware environment that leverages integration of advanced backup technology with the Internet on a subscription basis.

• Delivery of data protection as a utility over the Internet eliminates CAPEX allocation for VMware backup hardware, software, and support. You protect your corporate assets while preserving valuable capital for customer acquisition and innovation.
• Data deduplication at the VM level reduces the primary data transfer rate from 200% to 2-5% resulting in increased backup efficiency and a 500x bandwidth reduction.