Nexsan Signs New Deals With Top IT Resellers

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., May 7, 2002 -- Nexsan Technologies today announced it has signed four new systems integrators to offer the company's award-winning enterprise storage products. ARKAY Storage Solutions, Chi Corporation, Lighthouse Technology and VeriStor Systems, Inc. will now supply their customers with Nexsan's full line of InifiniSAN(TM) network storage and disk-to-disk (D2D) backup solutions.

"A part of our mission has always been to build a network of channel partners and leverage their expertise in the field instead of taking on the top-heavy overhead and inefficient distribution models of marketing directly to the end user," said Diamond Lauffin, Nexsan executive vice president. "By adding these resellers to our roster, we've fulfilled a key area of our business objectives while deepening our foothold in the marketplace."

ARKAY ( www.arkayinc.com )
ARKAY Storage Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1989 to provide memory and data storage products for the Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics and Unisys markets. Since then ARKAY has grown to fill the data storage requirements of nearly every open systems platform. Today ARKAY has the experience and technical expertise to help any size organization design and implement the ideal data storage solution for their unique environment. ARKAY is based in Akron, Ohio with additional offices in Melbourne, Fl., and Charleston, S.C.

"Now is the time to look for value and reliability, and our customers have responded well to InfiniSAN and its capabilities," said Rich Kuhar, Sr., President of ARKAY. "SAN, NAS and DAS approaches each have particular benefits and InfiniSAN is well suited to accommodate a large variety of storage requirements and functionality."

Chi Corporation ( www.chicorporation.com )
Since its beginning as a corporation established by the Case Institute of Technology in 1968 (today known as Case Western Reserve University), Chi Corporation has been a leader in the development and marketing of data management and storage solutions. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Chi Corporation is a global supplier of innovative data storage solutions and CD/DVD publishing systems. Chi specializes in addressing diverse and complex IT requirements and delivering comprehensive solutions that store, distribute, manage, and protect your organization's chief asset -- information. Chi Corporation sells its products worldwide through a direct sales channel as well as commercial distributors, storage integrators and value-added resellers.

"The company's versatility at delivering primary storage, backup and archiving make this an ideal choice for the diversity of requests we see in today's environments," said Greg Knieriemen, Vice President at Chi. "The product's strengths are well tuned to the realities of the marketplace, so we're happy to represent Nexsan."

Lighthouse ( www.lht.com )
Lighthouse Technology, based in Carlsbad, Calif., specializes in supporting its clients in the UNIX, Linux and Windows NT/2000 client-server market with highly integrated mass primary and secondary mass-storage and computing solutions. Lighthouse provides the market with reliable solutions for the 24 x 7 data and network intensive computing environments; enabling a much higher degree of streamlined data management, network data access and a healthier bottom line for their customers.

"The affordability, availability and performance of the Nexsan InfiniSAN allows us to deploy InfiniSAN in mass storage situations that were formerly the domain of tape and magneto-optical technologies," said Michael Sedlmayer, Director of Marketing at Lighthouse. "We are constantly looking toward ways to bring value to customer installations, and Nexsan helps us do that."

VeriStor Systems, Inc. ( www.veristor.com )
VeriStor Systems.Inc., based in Atlanta, Ga., is a leading independent provider of high-availability, high-performance storage solutions. VeriStor specializes in the design and implementation of solutions for SAN, NAS, backup, replication, and storage management.

"Nexsan delivers enterprise-class disk storage capacity at a price point previously unavailable," said Murray Granger, Vice President of Sales at VeriStor. "This allows our customers to significantly reduce costs for SAN, NAS and DAS configurations and enables them to consider on-line storage for applications where it would have been previously cost-prohibitive."

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. The company creates and delivers correct cost storage- centric hardware and application-based solutions worldwide through one of the most diverse and established networks of professionals in the storage industry. The company, which was founded in the U.K. in 1998, and has shipped over 4,000 storage systems in Europe, established its US headquarters in 2001. 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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