Reflects Continued Progress in Shifting Company's Strategic Focus toward delivering Higher-Value Products and Services

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM), the leading global specialist in backup, recovery and archive, today announced that Janae Lee has joined the company as vice president, marketing. She brings nearly 30 years of software marketing, storage industry sales, business development and strategic planning experience to Quantum, having served as president and CEO of TimeSpring Software and held executive leadership positions at Avamar Technologies, Legato Systems and IBM. Lee's appointment is the latest in a series of strategic actions Quantum has taken over the past year to grow its disk and software business and provide customers with more integrated, higher-value storage solutions.

As president and CEO of TimeSpring from 2004 to 2007, Lee built the company into one of the leading start-ups in continuous data protection. Before TimeSpring, she spent three years at Avamar as vice president, sales and business development, where she developed and executed its market entry plan and was instrumental in securing a number of strategic alliances (Avamar was subsequently acquired by EMC). Prior to TimeSpring and Avamar, Lee held several sales, marketing and product leadership positions at Legato (now EMC/Legato) from 1996 to 2001, ultimately serving as vice president, strategic alliances. Lee began her career at IBM, which included six years as a marketing and product executive in IBM's storage systems business.

"Janae's storage solutions expertise, wealth of experience at both start-ups and major systems companies, and success in leading teams through strategic transitions will be a tremendous asset to Quantum," said Bill Britts, executive vice president, sales, marketing and service. "She will play a critical role as we build on the progress we've made in re-focusing the company to meet a broader and higher-level range of customers' backup, recovery and archive needs."

Over the past year, Quantum has focused on developing a common storage platform that combines its patented data de-duplication technology for disk, enterprise-class file system and industry-leading tape automation portfolio. This is enabling Quantum to deliver the integrated data protection and management solutions customers need. For example, Quantum's DXi-Series disk systems de-duplicate backup data in transit -- dramatically increasing effective disk capacity and significantly reducing the bandwidth needed for replication -- while storing the data in Quantum's high performance file system for rapid recovery. The DXi-Series family will also provide additional scalability and direct tape creation with the introduction of the new DXi7500 enterprise system. Beyond the DXi-Series, Quantum is leveraging elements of its common storage platform in its StorNext(R) data management software solutions. StorNext provides customers with cost-effective, scalable clustered storage for workflow and archiving and incorporates data de-duplication and integrated lifecycle management for heterogeneous environments.

"The data storage industry has delivered an unprecedented number and range of new data management offerings in the past five years," said Lee. "These products are giving customers the tools they need to finally make measurable improvements in data recovery and availability. But customers need complete solutions -- not niche products -- to address their data management challenges. As the largest independent developer and provider of disk and tape solutions for data protection and retention, Quantum is uniquely positioned to offer fully integrated solutions that enable customers to more easily and effectively manage their data. I'm very excited about the opportunity to help the company build out these solutions and deliver the benefits throughout the market."

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Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM) is the leading global storage company specializing in backup, recovery and archive. Combining focused expertise, customer-driven innovation, and platform independence, Quantum provides a comprehensive, integrated range of disk, tape, and software solutions supported by a world-class sales and service organization. As a long-standing and trusted partner, the company works closely with a broad network of resellers, OEMs and other suppliers to meet customers' evolving data protection needs. Quantum Corp., 1650 Technology Drive, Suite 800, San Jose, CA 95110, (408) 944-4000, http://www.quantum.com.

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