Nexsan and Diligent Join Forces To Offer Enterprise-Class Data Protection Solution

Diligent Technologies becomes latest member of Nexsan's Strategic Solutions (S²) Program

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., June 2, 2004 - Nexsan Technologies and Diligent Technologies are partnering to provide customers with an enterprise-class disk-based data protection solution that achieves high availability, rapid recoverability and a higher degree of data protection at a very attractive price point. With this announcement, Diligent becomes a member of Nexsan's Strategic Solutions (S²) Program.

Diligent's Virtual Tape Facility for Open Systems (VTFT Open) with Nexsan InfiniSANT ATA solutions enable customers to implement disk instead of tape in their backup and recovery operations without changing existing policies, practices or procedures of the existing backup application. The combination of Diligent's VTF Open software and Nexsan ATA disk arrays create an enterprise virtual tape solution that appears to the backup application as one or many physical tape libraries. This solution eliminates much of the burden, complexity and difficulty of using tape for backup and restore, providing users with shorter backup windows and faster and more reliable recovery of their data.

"We welcome Diligent Technology into our family of S² partners," said Brendan Kinkade, Vice President of Marketing at Nexsan. "In addition to providing our disk-to-disk products, teaming up with Diligent adds virtual tape solutions to our offerings, which allows our customers to augment or replace their existing tape-based solutions thereby improving reliability, performance and availability of their enterprise-class data."

"Traditional backup and recovery solutions are failing because tape technology has not progressed with the data storage needs of businesses. The role of tape is evolving from being the primary backup medium to now serving as the main archiving function with disk playing an active role in the backup and recovery process," said Mike Parise, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Diligent. "Becoming a member of Nexsan's S² Program enables us to dramatically improve the backup and recovery operations for our users as well as significantly reduce the overall cost of such a solution."

Diligent Technology, like other software and hardware manufacturers that complete the S² process, is entitled to 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 Nexsan's award-winning family of products.

About Diligent Technologies Corporation
Diligent delivers scalable, proven virtual tape software providing customers with faster recovery, reliability and guaranteed data protection at a lower cost. Diligent's VTF software leverages existing tape infrastructure and is seamlessly integrated into data center environments of all sizes. VTF helps customers utilize disk storage as a backup and restore medium, without disrupting existing policies, practices and procedures. Information on Diligent Technologies is available at www.diligent.com.

About Nexsan Technologies
Nexsan Technologies, headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calif., is the leader in innovative and correct-cost storage solutions. The company creates and delivers award-winning, 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/on-line/off-site storage, Internet delivered content, digital film and video, financial online transaction data, music and voice, video security, and document imaging. For more information, please see the company's website at: http://www.nexsan.com.

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