Nexsan Extends InfiniSAN ATAboy2 Into Storage Area Network Arena With New Fibre Channel Connectivity Option

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., June 17, 2002 - Nexsan Technologies today unleashed an enhanced version of its InfiniSAN ATAboy2 that dramatically boosts throughput, includes 2-Gigabit Fibre Channel connectivity and opens up the unmatched value of the company's latest storage solution to the full range of Storage Area Network (SAN) applications.

The ATAboy2F, Nexsan's newest addition to its award-winning product line, couples the industry-leading affordability (less than 1 cent per megabyte) and performance of the InfiniSAN ATAboy2 platform with the speed and flexibility of 2-Gigabit Fibre Channel connectivity to deliver a multi-Terabyte SAN-ready storage solution designed to meet the demands of high-bandwidth, data-intensive applications such as broadcast, pre-press and other graphic arts and digital content creation environments.

ATAboy2F is designed to handle the full range of Fibre Channel configurations, including support for fabric login as well as Arbitrated Loop. Incorporating dual Small form-factor pluggable (SFP) 2-Gigabit Fibre Channel ports with backward compatibility for 1-Gigabit Fibre Channel hardware, the ATAboy2F delivers data throughput of 400 MB/s peak and 170 MB/s sustained RAID 5 reads with 25,000 IOPS performance. Nexsan delivers this enterprise-level performance in a compact 3u rack mount unit with up to 1.68 Terabytes of SAN-ready capacity, enough for more than 100 hours of digital video.

"Bringing Fibre Channel functionality to the InfiniSAN ATAboy2 instantly changes the economics of deploying SAN technology," said Diamond Lauffin, Nexsan's Senior Executive Vice President. "The unprecedented value of the ATAboy2F brings high-performance, high-capacity based SAN-ready storage into the price range of a new class of customers who can now benefit from SAN-based storage without busting their IT budgets."

ATAboy2F Overview
The InfiniSAN ATAboy series provides enterprise-class features and functionality in an advanced ATA disk-based solution than can scale from a correct cost, entry-level solution to over 2 TB in a single 3u configuration for the most storage intensive mid-range and enterprise applications. Nexsan designed enterprise-class reliability into the ATAboy2F, utilizing redundancy, advanced ATA disk drives and the latest in RAID technology. The Nexsan designed GUI interface, NexSCANT, provides the latest in centralized management and monitoring features for all Nexsan subsystems. Tele-GuardT, Nexsan's phone home manager, offers operator selectable parameters to monitor all system conditions. Tele-GuardT provides the vehicle to notify single or multiple system operators of not only component warnings, but also preemptive alerts. InfiniSAN ATAboy2 ATA disk-based systems provide the maximum uptime operation and data protected environment available today.

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 5,000 storage systems Worldwide, 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 www.nexsan.com.

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