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Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC), the leader in Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions for the open systems market, today announced that the company's new midrange tape library, the Scalar i500, received two prestigious awards from leading IT publications in China. ADIC's Scalar i500 has earned Product of the Year honors from China Computerworld and the Editor's Choice Award from the China Center for Information Industry Development (CCID) and its affiliated publication, China Information World. China Computerworld, China's largest IT publication with a circulation of more than 200,000 readers, named ADIC's Scalar i500 midrange tape library a recipient of its Product of the Year Award for 2005. This annual product award is judged by a combination of senior product and technical editors and independent IT analysts on the basis of technical innovation, performance, quality, ease of use, and total ownership costs. The China Center for Information Industry Development (CCID) is widely recognized as one of China's largest and most influential information service organizations, and its publication, China Information World, is one of China's leading IT publications. CCID storage experts and editors from China Information World compared products from major vendors on the basis of performance, functionality, market response, performance/price ratio, service, and ease of use and awarded the Scalar i500 their Editor's Choice Award in the Storage category. "We are pleased to receive accolades from leading publications like China Computerworld and China Information World, and organizations like CCID," said Bill Britts, ADIC Executive Vice President for Products, Sales, and Service. "These important industry awards attest to the Scalar i500's global market acceptance and ADIC's dedication to providing industry-leading storage solutions." The Scalar i500 tape library platform is the first in the industry to offer growing midrange environments the combination of flexible scalability and integrated intelligence needed to improve the effectiveness of backup. ADIC's Scalar i500 is also the first midrange library to offer integrated support for the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) standard. SMI-S support allows the library to be discovered and managed directly by third-party Storage Resource Management tools, including EMC(R) ControlCenter(TM). About ADIC Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) is a leading provider of Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions to the open systems marketplace. ADIC is the world's largest supplier of automated tape systems using the drive technologies most often employed for backing up open system, client-server networks.(a) The Company's data management software, storage networking appliances, and disk-based backup and restore solutions provide IT managers innovative tools for storing, managing, and protecting their most valuable digital assets in a variety of disk and tape environments. ADIC storage products are available through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers, OEMs and partnerships, including Apple, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, IBM, and Sun. Further information about ADIC is available at www.adic.com. (a) Market Share: Gartner Dataquest, Tape Automation Systems Market Shares, 2004, F. Yale, August 2005. ADIC and Scalar are registered trademarks and Intelligent Storage is a trademark of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. All other trade or service marks mentioned in this document should be considered the property of their respective owners.