Nexsan's ATABeast Wins Best Product Of 2004 Storries Awards

Enterprise-class RAID array tops 'Disk Technology' category

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., June 21, 2004 - Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative storage solutions, was awarded "Best Product - Disk Technology" for its InfiniSANT ATABeastT enterprise disk array at the 2004 Storage Industry Awards June 17 as part of the Storage Conference and Awards presented by Storage Magazine.

The "Storries" award was based on votes of readers of the publication, who chose Nexsan's ATABeast over product offerings from fellow finalists EMC, HDS, Hewlett Packard, Network Appliance and Storagetek.

"We are honored to have been selected as the top disk technology solution by the readers of Storage Magazine in a field of heavy hitters," said Brendan Kinkade, Vice President of Marketing at Nexsan. "Our customers know that Nexsan will provide them with secure and highly available data protection along with a common sense price point to meet their individual business needs. We are pleased that the ATABeast was so deservingly recognized with a prestigious Storrie."

ATABeast a compact multi-terabyte disk array that delivers enterprise-class capabilities in a low-profile, cost-correct package built around the latest award-winning ATA technology from Nexsan and high-capacity ATA disk drives. It is OS independent, needing no special software drivers or server-based management applications. Each component is redundant with individual components online hot swappable. ATABeast provides the highest density per square inch - 10.5 drives per U, 3.15 TB per U (using 300 GB drives). Utilizing Nexsan's D2D backup software, ATABeast delivers access to data up to 100 times faster than tape libraries.

This is the latest honor for Nexsan's ATABeast, having previously been named Best of Comdex 2003 by the editorial and labs staff of PC Magazine.

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/ online/off site storage, Internet delivered content, digital film and video, financial on-line 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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