NEXSAN VICE PRESIDENT ELECTED TO SNIA'S DATA MANAGEMENT FORUM BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Brendan Kinkade also named chair of Speaker's Bureau

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., November 19, 2005 - Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative storage solutions, today announced that Brendan Kinkade, the company's vice president of marketing, has been elected to a two-year term on the Storage Networking Industry Association's Data Management Forum Board of Directors where he will serve as the chair of the group's Speaker's Bureau responsible for DMF's participation in global conferences and events.

Kinkade joins Nexsan CEO Philip Black, co-chair of the Information Lifecycle Management Initiative (ILMI) as a member of the Data Management Forum's leadership team. Prior to being elected to the DMF Board, Kinkade served on the market development teams of the Data Protection Initiative and ILMI.

"Brendan is a valuable asset to SNIA and the DMF. He's been involved since 2003 in various leadership roles and has made many contributions," said Michael Peterson, Program Director of SNIA's Data Management Forum. "We are pleased to see him take a more substantial role in leading DMF by being both a member of our board of directors as well as in his responsibilities, heading up the Speaker's Bureau. We are confident that his further participation will be beneficial not only to the members of our group, but also in making a contribution to the industry."

"I am pleased to be contributing my experience as a marketer at Nexsan into a more proactive role in the storage networking community," said Kinkade. "By participating as a member of the Board of Directors on the DMF, as well as heading up the group's participation in conferences and events around the world, I am confident that the benefits of increased adoption of these important storage initiatives will be realized."

SNIA's DMF is a cooperative initiative of IT professionals, integrators and vendors working to define, implement, qualify and teach improved and reliable methods for the protection, retention and lifecycle management of electronic data and information. DMF is dedicated to education, as well as defining and building data protection and management capabilities in data centers.

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 to deliver award-winning storage solutions that provide correct-cost pricing, without sacrificing features and performance - attributes 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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