Nexsan Wins Honors in Korea From Leading Industry Publications

Enhanced Image to Lead to Promising Second Half

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., July 17, 2003 - Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative storage solutions, today announced that two leading Korean industry publications named the company's ATAboy2 storage array among their recent "First Half of the Year" awards. The increased visibility brought by these awards is expected to lead to a promising second half for the Nexsan Korea sales office.

Electronic News Daily named the ATAboy2 one of its HIT IT Products of the First Half of the Year 2003 in its June 20 edition, while the Digital Times included the ATAboy2 as a "Recommended Product" in its June 18 special report of Popular Products of the First Half of the Year. Digital Times is a leading newspaper in the IT field. Electronic News Daily is Korea's No. 1 newspaper in the industry.

"The selection of Nexsan's ATAboy2 by two industry-leading publications in Korea -- a country that is a hot-bed for innovation in technology -- further proves that we have a hot product that is well regarded by those looking to leverage cost correct ATA disk systems for their high-performance, low-cost storage needs," said Diamond Lauffin, Nexsan senior executive vice president. "With the increased visibility Nexsan has received from these two awards in three days, we expect the second half of the year to be extremely promising."

About ATAboy2
The InfiniSAN ATAboy2 series provides enterprise-class features and functionality in an advanced ATA disk-based solution than can scale from a correct-cost, entry-level solution up to meet the demands of the most storage intensive mid-range and enterprise applications. Nexsan designed enterprise-class reliability into the ATAboy2, utilizing redundancy, advanced ATA disk drives and the latest in RAID technology. The Nexsan designed GUI interface, NexSCAN(TM), provides the latest in centralized management and monitoring features for all Nexsan subsystems. Tele-Guard(TM), Nexsan's phone home manager, offers operator selectable parameters to monitor all system conditions. Tele-Guard(TM) 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, 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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