Nexsan Partners With Select Storage Integrators

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Feb. 28, 2002 - Nexsan Technologies today announced it has signed additional high- end systems integrators to offer the company's award-winning enterprise storage products. ANB, Rave Computers, Stonebridge Networks and TapeLabs will now be supplying their customers with Nexsan's full line of InifiniSANT network storage and disk-to-disk (D2D) backup solutions.

"These additions to our systems integrator roster play an important role in our highly efficient business model, because we are able to deliver enterprise-class features and reliability at a low cost without relying on a direct sales force or scattered field offices," said Diamond Lauffin, Nexsan executive vice president. "By outsourcing sales and distribution to these experts, we keep our focus on product and technology development, manufacturing and service - which is ultimately where we excel."

ANB (www.disk2disk.net / www.tapebackup.net)
Automated Network Backup is a storage design company with expertise in delivering complete data management and data protection solutions for the networked enterprise. ANB consults, designs, builds, and deploys end-to-end solutions for storage area networks (SAN), network attached storage (NAS), and server attached storage (SAS). The company also specializes in delivering full automation for backup, archive and disaster recovery processes. ANB is based in Camas, Wash.

"Information technology has grown in complexity with the increase of distributed storage and heterogeneous computing," said Adam Maguire, President of ANB. "Nexsan's InfiniSAN line addresses this complexity with advanced, full-featured products that are easy to deploy, use and maintain, and operate with an extraordinary amount of environments and applications."

Rave Computer (www.rave.com)
Rave Computer Association, Inc., an ISO-9002 certified company based in Sterling Heights, Mich., is an elite global OEM specializing in custom hardware and software integrated solutions including fit, form, function alternatives, private labeling, multi-vendor integration and legacy product management. Rave Computer offers high availability, high-density UltraSPARC and Intel/AMD rackmount and tower servers or workstations. To augment mission-critical applications and data, Rave Computer offers storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions.

"Nexsan's products enhance Rave Computer's product line of storage and backup solutions for networked storage and disaster recovery applications," said Tony Scicluna, director of sales, Rave Computer. "Our customer's initial response to Nexsan's D2D and ATAboy products were tremendously positive and as a result, Rave Computer incorporated the full InfiniSAN product line into its high-end data storage offerings."

Stonebridge (www.stonebridgenetworks.com)
Stonebridge Networks is committed to providing customers with a Total Network Solution. Stonebridge Networks offers the best options available by combining the latest technology with the highest level of technical expertise. Some areas of particular expertise include network storage, security and Wide Area Network solutions. Located in Ashburn, Va., Stonebridge Networks works with both commercial and federal government customers throughout the Washington Metropolitan area.

"InfiniSAN disk-based storage solutions are innovative in function and form and deliver superior value," said Craig Boerger, President of Stonebridge Networks. "We've added Nexsan to our lineup to leverage their strengths in product design, and our strengths in providing services and training for the customers who look to us for total network solutions."

Tape Labs (www.tapelabs.com)
Since 1990, Tape Laboratories, Inc. - a Los Angeles-based ISO 9001 company - has been supplying corporate end users, major computer OEMs and system integrators with custom and/or feature-rich storage solutions. TapeLabs designs and manufactures a wide variety of solutions for UNIX, Windows NT/95/98/2000, OS 400, and Compaq/Tandem NSK platforms. TapeLabs is recognized as a leading supplier of interface, emulation and enclosure technologies.

"We chose Nexsan because their size and market position accords them flexibility that enables a very fast time to market, among other reasons," said Brian Ignatin, Chairman and CEO at TapeLabs. "They understand and recognize the needs of users and understand the difference between primary storage requirements, backup, and archiving and have innovative approaches to these three different requirements."

Nexsan's award-winning InfiniSAN 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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