Cray/Media:     Mardi Larson, 612/683-3538
Cray/Financial: Brad Allen, 612/683-7395
Cowsert/Media:  Christopher Kovarik, 314/434-6600

CRAY, COWSERT COLLABORATE TO BRING NEW VALUE-ADDED SERVICES CAPABILITY TO
TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY

Cowsert to Offer Innovative Televaulting Software on CRAY (R) Business Servers

EAGAN, Minn., and ST. LOUIS, Dec. 27, 1995 -- Cray Research, Inc. and
Cowsert Corporation announced that they have signed an agreement to
collaborate on solutions for the telecommunications industry.  As part of
the agreement, Cowsert will make its XPress Backup televaulting application
available on the CRAY CS6400 enterprise server and the two companies will
work together on new opportunities based on this powerful combined
solution.  The companies said they plan to target worldwide
telecommunications companies wanting to provide televaulting services  -- a
novel way to remotely back-up personal computers and distributed systems --
as a new value-added service to their customers.

According to Mike Dabbs, Cowsert's chief technical officer, "This solution
has significant potential in the telecommunications industry because about
90% of all PCs are not backed up on a regular basis, leaving valuable data
subject to such risks as hard drive failure, fire, natural disasters, and
human error.  In addition, most small and mid-sized companies that do
perform PC back-ups do this on disks that are often not stored off-site and
therefore still at serious risks.  Our XPress Backup software automatically
performs scheduled back ups over standard dial-up telephone connections,
allowing telecommunications companies to easily offer this valuable new
service to their customers." Dabbs noted that certain ISDN and T1 interface
devices are also supported.

The availability of Cowsert's XPress Backup on the CS6400 system is the
first implementation of this application on an open systems server.
According to Larry Cowsert, president of Cowsert Corp., "The CS6400 is the
perfect platform for this innovative new application.   First, it's a
system that is scalable -- our customers and prospects can start small and
then grow into an enterprise-wide capability.  And second, the CS6400
server is the only system today that can readily support the huge, multiple
terabyte (trillion bytes) data capacities that the telecommunications
industry requires."

"We are pleased that Cowsert came to Cray when they needed a
high-performance computer system capable of handling this innovative
application," said Bobbi Hazard, vice president of commercial sales for
Cray Research.  "We are aggressively targeting the telecommunications
industry with our CS6400 business server.  We look forward to the joint
opportunities that will result from this powerful combined solution and to
serving additional high-performance computing solution needs of the
telecommunications industry."

The CS6400 enterprise business server, the flagship product of Cray's
Business Systems unit, began shipping in February 1994.  In October 1995,
Cray announced an enhanced model, featuring new SuperSPARC II
microprocessors expected to be up to 50% faster on commercial applications.
The CS6400 system is the most powerful and scalable parallel business
server in the open systems market today, beginning at four and scaling to
64 processors, as well as supporting up to 10 terabytes of on-line disk.
CS6400 customers include: MCI Telecommunications, Samsung Electronics, Co.
Ltd., Bank of America, the UK's International Monetary Fund (IMF),
Citibank, American Automobile Association (AAA), and one of England's
leading insurers Churchills Insurance, which was sold through Cray reseller
Amdahl Corp.

Cray's Business Systems unit provides leading open system solutions and
consulting services for data warehousing, decision support and on-line
transaction processing as well as on-line analytical processing and
multi-media applications.  Cray Research designed, manufactures, markets,
sells and supports the CS6400 enterprise database servers worldwide both
directly and through distributors and resellers.

Cray Research provides the leading high-performance computing tools and
services to help solve customers' most challenging problems.

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