Nexsan Signs Partnerships With First Tier Integrators To Distribute Enterprise Storage Systems

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., February 8, 2002 - Nexsan Technologies today announced it has signed four first tier systems integrators who will offer the company's full line of InifiniSANT network storage and disk to disk (D2D) backup solutions. Cambridge Computer Services, Fusion Data Management, RedBridge Technologies, and USI Corporation, will now be supplying their customers with Nexsan's award-winning enterprise storage products.

"The distribution strategy we've set in motion with these partnerships is a key part of our highly efficient business model and one of the reasons we are able to deliver enterprise-class features and reliability at a low cost," said Diamond Lauffin, Nexsan executive vice president. "Rather than relying on a direct sales force or an extensive network of field offices, we are assembling an exceptional network of systems integrators so we can achieve market dominance while maintaining essential manufacturing and service business components."

Cambridge Computer (www.cambridgecomputer.com)
Cambridge Computer Services, Inc. based in Boston, Mass. is a privately held IT consulting firm, specializing in data storage and related technologies.

"Cambridge Computer is pleased to add Nexsan to the product line," said Jacob Farmer, CTO of Cambridge Computer. "Nexsan provides us with reliable storage at new low price point, creating opportunities for storage applications that have traditionally been cost prohibitive for many of our clients. Suddenly it is possible for these clients to consider storing all of their data on line, replicating data off site, and even using disk for certain backup applications. Nexsan's product line also makes enterprise-class storage accessible for low-end clients who have a lot of data but not a lot of money."

Fusion DM (www.fusiondm.net)
Fusion Data Management Inc., based in Carmichael, Calif., is a leading independent solutions provider of high availability, high performance storage solutions for the UNIX, NT and Linux markets. FusionDM offers pre-tested and customized storage area networking (SAN) solutions, Fibre Channel and SCSI RAID and non-RAID storage products, backup products and advanced storage management software.

"Specializing as we do in high-availability, high-performance storage solutions, it is refreshing to work with Nexsan," said Scott McEndree at FusionDM. "The Nexsan product line is truly innovative and makes it possible for Fusion Data Management to provide the same "Glasshouse" features and functionality that are absolutely a necessity, whenever time to data and data availability, are a direct contributor to revenues."

RedBridge Technologies, Inc. (www.redbridge.net)
RedBridge Technologies, Inc., based in San Carlos, Calif., is a leading provider of Enterprise Networked Storage Solutions. RedBridge core competencies include: enterprise storage, disaster recovery, back-up, and network architecture. RedBridge is building the Bridge between Infrastructure and Technology.

" Our customers are using Nexsan in almost all of our solutions," said Mike Chapman VP of Sales at RedBridge. "For Example: HSM, data staging, back ups, primary storage, secondary storage, replication, and disaster recovery. Nexsan's price point combined with their enterprise class functionality allows our customers to better control overall costs. Nexsan is one of the most impressive products on our line card."

USI Corporation (www.usicorp.com)
USI Corporation is a provider of high performance storage-centric solutions. USI Corp's expertise is in high-speed backup solutions, high availability storage and storage area networks. With a wide spectrum of satisfied customers including fortune 100 companies and many Universities, USI is proudly based in Chicago, Illinois.

"Maximizing the value of IT investments can be a considerable challenge to a company facing increasing storage needs," said Mark Tuggle, VP of Sales at USI Corp. "The Nexsan approach combines our integration expertise with their uniquely engineered, cost-effective solutions to provide exceptional value for our customers."

Nexsan's award-winning InfiniSANT products feature fault tolerance, redundancy, storage virtualization, data replication, and support RAID levels 0, 1, 0/1, 3, 4, 5, 10 and 50. The highly scalable InfiniSAN systems provide advanced primary storage, policy-based storage management, disk-to-disk backup and disaster recovery vehicles.

The company's products are system independent, supporting SAN, NAS and DAS configurations, and Full Fabric, Fibre, SCSI or ATA. They provide support for TCP/IP, Ethernet, Data and iSCSI, and Serial, LAN, WAN or web connections.

About Nexsan Technologies
Nexsan Technologies is an engineering design and manufacturing technologies company based in Woodland Hills, California. The company creates and delivers storage-centric hardware and application-based solutions worldwide through one of the most diverse and established networks of professionals in the storage industry. Next generation Nexsan storage products are designed for corporate, graphics, medical imaging, animation and special effects, real time/event monitored/ online/off site storage, internet delivered content, financial on-line transaction data, music and voice, video security, digital film, and document imaging. For more information, please see the company's web site at http://www.nexsan.com

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