Nexsan And SANRAD Announce Turnkey Scalable iSCSI Storage Solution SANRAD Joins Nexsan Strategic Solutions (S²) Program

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., December 17, 2003 - Nexsan Technologies and SANRAD Inc. today announced they will jointly market a complete, turnkey automated storage solution incorporating Nexsan's advanced disk-based storage systems and SANRAD's iSCSI V-Switch, which combines the functionality of a multi-protocol switch, storage virtualization engine, storage router and Fibre Channel gateway. With this agreement, SANRAD has become the newest member of Nexsan's Strategic Solutions (S²) Program.

The SANRAD/Nexsan partnership will result in a product ideal for resellers that deliver complete iSCSI data management solutions, and will carry a "Nexsan certified" designation as an indication of its quality when it joins Nexsan's award-winning family of products.

iSCSI advanced disk-based storage is rapidly becoming the top choice for a variety of industries and applications, such as universities and local government, as well as corporate customers looking to quickly, easily and affordably deploy IP SANs. Customers will benefit from the greatly reduced cost per managed terabyte of Nexsan's cost-correct storage systems and the iSCSI functionality of SANRAD's V-Switch.

With its intelligent storage routing and high availability, SANRAD's V-Switch allows users to build robust and high performance IP SANs that include security, multi-pathing and data replication, ensuring 24/7 access to storage and data resources at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions.

Nexsan's InfiniSANT line of disk-based storage is a perfect fit for SANRAD's V-Switch. The new ATAbabyT Twins bundle combines technical innovation and correct-cost pricing to deliver a best-of-breed storage solution to SMB customers. With up to 2.4 TB of storage in a mirrored RAID-5 configuration, the solution provides intelligent RAID protection in a compact package. ATABeastT, an award-winning enterprise-class ATA RAID, is OS independent, needing no special software drivers or server-based management applications. Every component is redundant with individual components online hot-swappable. ATABeast provides the highest density per square inch - 10.5 drives per U, 3.15 TB per U (using 300 GB drives). Nexsan's award-winning ATAboy2T ATA disk-based solution provides next generation performance, reliability and high data availability. Utilizing storage virtualization, the ATAboy2 systems scale from a correct-cost, entry-level solution while providing unchallenged expandability and superior fault tolerance supporting the storage industry's most demanding midrange to enterprise-class applications.

About SANRAD's iSCSI V-Switch
The iSCSI V-Switch includes the iSCSI V-Switch and a browser-based management GUI. The iSCSI V-Switch provides iSCSI-networked hosts with secure and trusted access to a variety of logical volumes residing on diverse storage systems within a SAN architecture. Requiring no host agents, it operates in the data path of a storage network, independent of servers and storage, providing a highly scalable and easy to use connectivity and management platform for IT professionals responsible for administering small to enterprise class storage resources. V-Switch storage management and virtualization features gather all physical storage resources (SCSI, iSCSI and FC) into a single pool, enabling network administrators to define new logical volumes from these pooled resources independent of physical barriers such as enclosures, physical disks, protocols, and distance. Volume management includes volume mirroring, striping, remote copy, volume concatenation, precise LUN carving (as low as a few hundred kilobytes), snapshot, multi-patting, security, port performance aggregation, selectable quality of service per host, in addition to port, path, and switch failover.

About SANRAD
SANRAD is the leader in IP Storage Networking, enabling organizations to effectively access, share and manage storage across standard Ethernet environments. SANRAD delivers a new dimension in the continuity and simple management of vital business information by coupling standard IP connectivity with network-based storage services to create IP-based Storage Area Networks (IP SANs). SANRAD IP SANs enable full data availability, effective resource provisioning and complete data protection with excellent price/performance. SANRAD's U.S. sales, marketing and support offices are located in Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area, Calif., with research and development and international sales offices in Tel Aviv, Israel. SANRAD is a member of the RAD Group, a holding company that has founded 22 networking companies and is one of the largest multi-national revenue producers in networking.

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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