Nexsan Welcomes Competitors Into Its D2D Space

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., April 1, 2002 - Nexsan Technologies, the industry leader in disk-based backup technology, today acknowledged such companies as Maxtor (NYSE: MXO), Network Appliance (NASDAQ: NTAP) and Quantum (NYSE: DSS), for adding disk-to-disk (D2D) backup technologies to their product offerings after Nexsan successfully opened the market space with its innovative line of InfiniSANT storage solutions.

"We appreciate those suppliers that have seen the value in the D2D backup model and have joined us in offering this technology to organizations facing the zero backup window," said Diamond Lauffin, Nexsan's Senior Executive Vice President. "And while we still set the standard and price point in D2D solutions, our overwhelming success along with the competitive offerings verify that this is a technology whose time has definitely come."

"The number of players taking the field indicates that there is a strong case for widespread adoption of these technologies," said Steve Duplessie, president and senior analyst for Enterprise Storage Group. "Enhanced backup systems such as Nexsan's D2D will dramatically alter the ability of users to improve restorability - which means real money to the bottom line."

Nexsan was the first vendor to recognize the compelling business case for affordable D2D backup. According to the META Group, downtime costs can run as high as $2 million per hour. Nexsan's InfiniSAN D2D solution virtually eliminates downtime with a hot database snapshot capability for real-time, on-line protection. In the event of a server crash or a virus attack, an administrator can immediately redirect the data path to the last known best version. This provides the ability to be up and running immediately allowing for an off-line server restore or rebuild.

Nexsan has received rave reviews for the InfiniSAN D2D backup systems ever since their debut late last year, with the InfiniSAN winning 'Best of Show' at Comdex Fall in the enterprise storage category. The product also received high praise in an InfoWorld review and won #1 Resellers Choice in Computer Technology Review.

Even with new competitors entering the market, Nexsan continues to offer the most affordable and scalable D2D backup solutions available. With complete solutions available for less than a penny per megabyte, Nexsan's InfiniSAN solutions are less than half the price of competitive products. Nexsan's market-leading affordability includes a complete integrated backup-and-restore software suite, eliminating the cost of purchasing add-on backup applications as required with competitive D2D hardware products.

InfiniSAN D2D backup systems scale from 160 GB to multi-petabytes for environments ranging from entry-level to the most demanding mid-range and enterprise-class applications. The Nexsan-designed GUI interface, NexScanT, provides the latest in web-based, centralized management and monitoring features. Tele-GuardT, Nexsan's phone home manager, configures operator-selectable parameters, enabling pre-emptive degradation monitoring for all system conditions.

"While we welcome the arrival of our competitors to an exciting and dynamic market, we remain convinced that the performance, reliability and scalability of the InfiniSAN platform will continue to keep Nexsan at the forefront by offering the best D2D solution for entry-level to the most demanding mid-range and enterprise-class applications," said Lauffin. "At some point in the future, we expect these new competitors to offer D2D products that satisfy the performance, availability and scalability requirements of enterprise storage customers, just like our first-generation InfiniSAN solutions. Even then, with the high reliability and exceptional data availability for less than 1 cent per megabyte from Nexsan, we'll be a tough act to follow."

About Nexsan Technologies
Nexsan Technologies is an engineering design and manufacturing technologies company based in Woodland Hills, Calif. 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 online transaction data, music and voice, video security, digital film, and document imaging. On the Net: Nexsan site: http://www.nexsan.com

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