Nexsan CEO Philip Black To Speak At Storage Networking Summit

Co-Chair of Data Protection Initiative and ILM Initiative for the Data Management Forum of SNIA to present at Bangalore storage conference

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., December 6, 2004 - Philip Black, CEO of Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative storage solutions, will present on the Information Lifecycle Management Initiative at the Storage Networking Summit at the Leela Palace in Bangalore, India December 8.

As co-chair of the Data Protection and ILM initiatives for the Data Management Forum of SNIA, Black will speak on the goal to organize and unify the emerging marketplace for disk-based data protection by defining new metrics, implementation guides and reference models at the 2 p.m. presentation of Technical Track 1.

The ILM Initiative allows industry leaders and participants to come together into a community to focus on unifying, defining, implementing and teaching the world about its vision for ILM and its impact on information and storage management. The ILMI operates as an online virtual community, sharing work efforts, training programs and outreach services such as research, whitepapers and training, and educational courses.

As part of the Summit's Vendor EXPO, Nexsan will display its SATAblade scalable disk-based storage solution
- at the forefront of performance and capacity at cost-correct prices.

Supporting the latest 10,000 RPM SATA drives in an extreme density, low profile form factor, SATAblade delivers exceptionally high performance for data intensive storage applications and the small footprint solution can be easily optimized to meet either performance or capacity requirements.
Featuring individual drive independence within a unique 1U high physical architecture that maximizes airflow and allows easy access to eight hot swappable SATA drives, a single SATAblade can easily store up to 3.2 terabytes of data.

Storage Networking Summit is a business-driven educational and networking event for IT executives and professionals planning or deploying storage networks. Attendees receive a broad industry view encompassing the state of products, applications, solutions, training and support available today, as well as future technology and business directions. The Summit is focused on the business advantages of storage networks by practical examples from end user executives themselves. More information about SNS is available online at www.storagenetworkingsummit.com.

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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