BiTMICRO NETWORKS, Storage 2000 Team Up to Showcase Emerging Fibre Channel and SAN Products at FOSE Trade Show.

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FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2001

Solid State Flash-Based Storage Solutions Provider Will Join Storage

Integrator and VAR To Demonstrate Emerging Storage Technologies at

Booth 1579 March 20-22

BiTMICRO NETWORKS Inc., a pioneer in intelligent storage, and Storage 2000, parent company of Storage Area Solutions -- a leading storage solutions integrator and VAR, will be joining forces at FOSE, a leading IT event serving the government IT market.

This pairing is to showcase Storage Area Solutions' integration of BiTMICRO's solid-state fibre channel E-Disk product into their Agility Flash Solid State Module (AFSM).

"We chose the BiTMICRO product as the core component in the AFSM," said Ken Tratar, president and CEO of Storage Area Solutions, "because flash-based solid state disks present a better value proposition, which we can pass on to our buyers."

"In addition," Tratar noted, "the BiTMICRO product provides a significantly better footprint for our use of a solid state product. Preliminary evaluations of specifications show that by utilizing the BiTMICRO product in our SAN/storage combination, we can provide our clients a significant increase in system performance.

"The power of utilizing Agility's virtualization feature is key to an elegant SAN that now allows the assignment of high performance solid state LUN's on a demand basis to a particular application," he concluded.

"Moving forward, we also see some very special utilizations in dealing with SAN-based video-on demand applications. This application places very specific demands on the computing system, and it is vital to have a high caliber product such as BiTMICRO's in place to provide the superior performance that our customers demand."

"Our E-Disk Fibre Channel series is a new class of all-electronic storage solutions with no moving parts, particularly suitable in mission critical applications on enterprise and departmental servers demanding 24 x 7 data availability under all conditions," said Tom Griffin, BiTMICRO vice president of marketing.

BiTMICRO NETWORKS Fibre Channel E-Disk storage products require no batteries for non-volatility and provide instant response by virtually eliminating seek time and latency. The products withstand operating temperatures from -40 to +85 degrees centigrade and 1,500 Gs of operating shock.

This E-Disk series is built on the patented and well-proven FlashBus technology and is a derivative of BiTMICRO's successful early series of E-Disk product line introductions. Like its early E-Disk predecessors, the plug-and-play E-Disk Fibre Channel series of solid-state flash disks features low power consumption and power saving commands.

It incorporates DataSentinel and PowerGuard, BiTMICRO's proprietary and the industry's most comprehensive data protection package. This package boasts an extremely powerful Error Correction Code logic and is capable of correcting multiple error bursts with no performance loss.

The Fibre Channel E-Disk product is fully compatible with Linux, Solaris, Windows, MacOS, and LynxOS. Other operating systems to be supported include AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, NetBSD, OS/2, QNX, VxWorks, SCO Unixware and OpenServer, Solaris X86 and Tru64.

About Storage Area Solutions

Storage Area Solutions (http://www.storageareasolutions.com) is an experienced and seasoned organization committed to serving the disk storage needs of any size end user, from initial consulting to the maintenance and long-term support of all components.

Storage Area Solutions' charter is to manufacture and represent a unique product offering and business formula, a combination that will culminate in the finest value based disk storage and storage area network solutions available.

About BiTMICRO NETWORKS

BiTMICRO NETWORKS Inc. (http://www.bitmicro.com/), a privately held California corporation, is the world's premier supplier of high performance solid-state disk and storage management solutions. BiTMICRO's storage solutions offer unmatched performance, data availability, and manageability across a spectrum of platforms from entry systems to super computers.

The company is a member of the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) and Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).

For more product information contact BiTMICRO NETWORKS. http://www.bitmicro.com.

Note To Editors: E-Disk(TM), FlashBus(TM), PowerGuard(TM), DataSentinel(TM) and BiTMICRO(TM) are trademarks of BiTMICRO NETWORKS, Inc. Others are trademarks of their respective companies or other countries.