Nexsan Products Available To U.S. Government Through Northrop Grumman's SEWP III Contract

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., July 16, 2002 - Nexsan Technologies, the leader in disk-based network storage and backup, today announced that Nexsan products are now available to the U.S. Federal Government on the NASA Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement III (SEWP III) contract through Northrop Grumman Information Technology.

The NASA SEWP III contract is a government-wide acquisition contract for indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) procurement. One of several government-wide acquisition contract (GWAC) vehicles, the SEWP contract eases the purchasing process and verifies that products available satisfy the security and reliability needs of federal agencies. Nexsan's award-winning InfiniSANT products fully comply with the requirements set forth in the NASA SEWP III contract.

"We have set the standard and price point in robust, cost-correct solutions, and our successes verify this is a technology appropriate for high-level federal agencies," said Nexsan executive vice president Diamond Lauffin. "Nexsan products easily handle the daunting data protection needs of the most challenging environments, be it storage management, disk-to-disk backup or disaster recovery."

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.

Northrop Grumman Information Technology is a trusted leader and premier provider of advanced IT solutions, engineering and business services for government and commercial clients. Headquartered in Herndon, Va., the company has more than 22,000 employees and annual revenues of approximately $4 billion. Northrop Grumman IT's expertise spans such areas as information systems integration; command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR); enterprise hardware and software solutions; training and simulation; base and range support; signals intelligence; space systems; and specialized scientific, engineering and technical services.

About Nexsan Technologies
Nexsan Technologies, headquartered in Woodland Hills, California 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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