NEXSAN, EXANET PARTNER TO PROVIDE SUPERIOR PRICE/PERFORMANCE ENTERPRISE NAS SOLUTION

WOODLAND HILLS , Calif. , February 12, 2007 – Nexsan Technologies , the leader in innovative storage solutions, today announced that its SATABeast™ enterprise-class storage array and Exanet's Exastore - ICM ™ have been jointly tested and qualified, offering enterprise customers ultimate performance, infinite scalability and simplified management in a unified cost-correct NAS solution . With the announcement, Exanet becomes the latest member of Nexsan's Strategic Solutions (S 2 ) Program.

ExaStore – ICM (Intelligent Cluster Management) delivers a unique and unbeatable enterprise-class storage solution, with the industry's most feature rich management tools and open storage nature versus competitive and limited proprietary solutions. SATABeast delivers the highest performance and utmost cost effectiveness in a single, scalable solution ideal for data-intense storage applications. An extreme density design – 21 terabytes of storage capacity in just 4U of rack space – provides a compact footprint and can scale to 210 cost-correct terabytes of capacity in a single rack. The SATABeast's unique design extends individual drive life and provides significant savings year over year, while its AutoMAID™ (Massive Array of Idle Disks) function allows SATABeast to place its disk drives to an idle state to conserve energy yet provide near-instantaneous access to data.

ExaStore - ICM offers automated storage management that simplifies system operation and maintenance, and dramatically drives down the total cost of ownership of enterprise NAS. The system's new virtual volume capability allows dynamic expansion or reallocation of storage capacity according to changing business needs, and provides an additional level of control and flexibility for capacity management and provisioning. Additionally, ExaStore's unique single file system and single storage pool ensure maximum utilization of disk space. Its performance-optimized architecture, together with its use of standard, off-the-shelf hardware, provides best-of-breed solutions for any application or budget, resulting in the best price/performance recorded by a NAS vendor.

“We are pleased to be partnering with Exanet to bring highly scalable, maximum-performance, yet cost-effective NAS solutions to enterprise customers around the world,” said Brendan Kinkade, Vice President of Marketing at Nexsan. “By qualifying the SATABeast with Exanet's ExaStore - ICM, we are showing our commitment to providing open access to integrated storage architectures that meet the needs of the most demanding enterprise users.”

“ ExaStore solutions, using open standards and designed to work with a wide selection of hardware vendors gives both partners and end users unique control and choice ,” said Rami Schwartz, Exanet's CEO . “Exanet is pleased to partner with Nexsan to provide certified storage NAS systems worldwide to enterprise companies who value critical management features, along with high-performance and unlimited scalability, such as those in graphic arts, manufacturing, media and entertainment, oil and gas, and telecommunications.”

For software and hardware manufacturers that complete the S 2 process, benefits include special pricing on the Nexsan products to be integrated into their solution, referrals to channel partners, co-marketing opportunities, and cooperatively produced white papers and collaterals. Total solutions will carry a “Nexsan certified” designation and be included in the Nexsan's award-winning family of products.

About Exanet
Exanet continues to break the storage limits with its ExaStore clustered NAS software solution. Designed for the most demanding enterprise customers, ExaStore boasts the industry's most complete feature set, along with a patented global distributed file system and intelligent clustering management. ExaStore delivers capacity-on-demand for data-intensive applications while simplifying network storage management. The system's breakthrough storage architecture enables unlimited on-the-fly scalability with unparalleled performance and the best cost-per-IOPS of any NAS cluster solution on the market today. Exanet is headquartered in Israel , with US headquarters in New York , and offices in Europe and Japan . ExaStore systems are available through Exanet partners worldwide. For more information, please visit www.exanet.com.

About Nexsan Technologies
Nexsan Technologies, headquartered in Woodland Hills , Calif. , has changed the way IT managers are storing and protecting corporate data. From the outset, Nexsan has moved to the forefront because it recognized the need for corporate managers to ‘do more with less.' Nexsan was the first to deliver award-winning storage solutions that provide correct-cost pricing, without sacrificing features and performance – attributes that make good business sense for virtually every size company. Every Nexsan product is a total solution, with unprecedented ease of use, features, performance and reliability, all priced to fit the requirements of IT managers worldwide. For more information, please see the company's website at http://www.nexsan.com.

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