NEXSAN'S SATABLADE WINS STORAGE PRODUCT OF THE YEAR AT 2005 STORRIES AWARDS

Second year in a row that company has received top product award

WOODLAND HILLS , Calif. , June 20, 2005 - For the second straight year, Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative storage solutions, was awarded a top Storage Industry Award for one of its powerful and cost-effective storage products, having taken the "Storage Product of the Year" prize for its SATABlade announced June 16 as part of the Storage Conference and Awards presented by Storage Magazine.

The "Storries" award was based on votes from readers of the publication, who chose Nexsan's SATABlade as the top storage product, hardware or software, over product offerings from fellow finalists Computer Associates, Network Appliance, Quantum, Sony, StorageTek and Veritas. Nexsan was awarded "Best Product - Disk Technology" for its ATABeast enterprise disk array at last year's Storage Industry Awards.

"For the past two years, real-world users of storage products on the market today have selected Nexsan for top product awards at the annual Storage Awards from Storage Magazine," said Brendan Kinkade, Vice President of Marketing at Nexsan. "We are pleased at the continued achievements of our innovative storage technologies and understand that our success can be attributed to providing exceptional product design, performance and value to our customers. Nexsan's recognition of excellence through the winning of top Storries Awards year after year is extremely gratifying."

Nexsan's award-winning SATABlade is a powerful and cost-effective Serial ATA (SATA) storage system that delivers stunning performance for businesses requiring a scalable, high-performance storage solution.

Supporting the latest 10,000 RPM SATA drives in an extreme density, low-profile form factor, SATABlade delivers exceptionally high performance for data-intensive storage application and the small footprint solution can be easily optimized to meet either performance or capacity requirements. Featuring individual drive independence within a unique 1U physical architecture that maximizes airflow and allows easy access to eight hot-swappable SATA drives, a single SATABlade can easily store up to 3.2 terabytes of data.

About Nexsan Technologies
Nexsan Technologies, headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calif. has changed the way IT managers are storing and protecting corporate data. From the outset, Nexsan has moved to the forefront because it recognized the need for corporate managers to "do more with less." Nexsan was the first on the scene to deliver award-winning storage solutions that provide, for the first time, correct-cost pricing, without sacrificing features and performance, and ones that make good business sense for virtually every size company. Every Nexsan product is a total solution, with unprecedented ease of use, features, performance and reliability - all priced to fit the requirements of IT managers worldwide. For more information, please see the company's website at www.nexsan.com.

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