Nexsan's ATABeast Making Its Mark

Enterprise-class RAID array garners favorable reviews in leading IT publications

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., November 1, 2004 - One might expect a product named the ATABeast to make a deep, resonating roar, but the noise it actually generates is more of a considerable buzz. Nexsan Technologies' award-winning, enterprise-class disk-based storage solution is currently winning rave reviews from leading industry resources, such as the U.K.'s Storage Magazine and Techworld.

The review in the September/October edition of Storage Magazine declares that the ATABeast "offers an impressive storage capacity and delivers it at a highly competitive price that will make a number of fibre channel (FC) SAN vendors sit up and take notice." It concludes that the ATABeast lives up to its name for performance, is easy to use, has good management and fault tolerance and "it scores heavily over the competition with its unbeatable storage density and value." The publication previously awarded the ATABeast the "Disk Technology Product of the Year" at the 2004 Storage Industry Awards.

Techworld, a leading infrastructure and networking knowledge center, also praised the ATABeast's performance and pricing. "Along with top management facilities and fault tolerance the ATABeast scores highly for sheer storage capacity as you're unlikely to find anything else that can match it at the price point," writes Dave Mitchell in the October 21 review. "Nexsan targets it particularly as a high-capacity, high-performance replacement for tape based backup systems - a job the ATABeast clearly has the credentials for."

"The ATABeast has been a monster at earning positive reviews in not only the trade press but also at our customers' installations," Brendan Kinkade, Vice President of Marketing at Nexsan. "As always, we are honored by the accolades that these leading IT publications have heaped upon the ATABeast and we will continue to vindicate the reviewers' praise for Nexsan's outstanding performance and affordable price point throughout our entire line of disk-based storage solutions."

Nexsan's ATABeast an extreme density disk array that delivers enterprise-class capabilities in a low-profile, cost-correct package built around the latest award-winning 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, 4.2 TB per U (using 400 GB drives).

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 http://www.nexsan.com.

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