DataDirect Networks Allies With Cambex Corporation to Deliver Interoperability to High Performance Computing Centers.

Business/Technology Editors

WALTHAM, Mass. and LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2001

Qualification Expands Cambex Reach in High Performance

Computing Environments

Cambex Corporation (OTCBB:CBEX), a leading provider of hardware and software solutions for building Storage Area Networks, and DataDirect Networks, the leading provider of the world's highest performance storage networking appliances, have announced that the Cambex FibreQuik PC1000 host bus adapter is qualified in conjunction with DataDirect's Silicon Storage Appliances.

The qualification of FibreQuik HBAs allows Cambex customers in high performance computing markets to take additional advantage of Silicon Storage Appliances for superior performance and availability in building mission-critical, heterogeneous SANs in IBM, Sun, Linux, and Windows environments. The ability to interoperate with DataDirect's Silicon Storage Appliance will deliver unmatched simplicity, high performance and lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to customers.

DataDirect's Silicon Storage Appliances bring substantial application acceleration, scalability and management benefits to the most highly sophisticated, computationally intensive and demanding national labs. DataDirect recently delivered 18 Silicon Storage Appliances and 124 Terabytes of storage for ASCI Tri-Lab use split between Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (November 5, 2001 and November 12, 2001).

"We are pleased to be working with DataDirect Networks to deliver best of breed solutions into the high performance computing arena," said Joseph F. Kruy, Chief Executive Officer of Cambex. "Many national labs are turning to SANs in large numbers to gain benefits of high bandwidth performance with the scalability they require; the Silicon Storage Appliance, coupled with Cambex FibreQuik host bus adapters, excels in these high performance computing environments."

DataDirect Networks has created highly scalable, simple-to-deploy and easy-to-manage Silicon Storage Appliances to accelerate application performance, simplify information management, and establish an intelligent platform for deploying application-specific storage solutions. With each appliance's ability to supply an aggregate bandwidth of 800 megabytes per second and support up to 512 servers and 180 Terabytes of storage, the Silicon Storage Appliance brings performance and scalability benefits to scientific and commercial supercomputing centers.

DataDirect Networks' Silicon Storage Appliance technology allows businesses to accelerate their applications, providing data at least three times faster than existing Storage Area Networking (SAN) solutions and ten times faster than Network Attached Storage (NAS) technology. The acceleration of data to applications and users -- simply and easily -- allows DataDirect Networks' customers to consolidate their storage; the Silicon Storage Appliance technology allows management of up to 100 Terabytes by a single system administrator, providing 10x lower Total Cost of Ownership.

"Governmental agencies realize that easy to deploy, scalable and centrally managed SAN infrastructures can provide tremendous competitive advantage over competing technologies," Robert Woolery, vice president, corporate development and strategic planning, DataDirect Networks, said. "The Silicon Storage Appliance and Cambex technologies combine to create a rock-solid high performance computing infrastructure that provides reliable, scalable, end-to-end solutions."

About DataDirect Networks, Inc.

DataDirect Networks is the leader in the rapidly growing market for intelligent storage networking appliances. DataDirect Networks' Silicon Storage Appliances make it easy, simple and trouble-free to accelerate and manage applications, dramatically reducing TCO and increasing ROI. For more information, contact DataDirect Networks at [phone] or visit www.datadirectnet.com.

About Cambex Corporation

Cambex, headquartered in Waltham, MA, develops, manufactures and markets leading-edge Fibre Channel hardware and software solutions for building SANs. The company offers high performance Fibre Channel host bus adapters, hubs, routers and switches, high availability software, Full-Fibre Channel RAID arrays and management software for the deployment of heterogeneous SAN solutions, providing companies the competitive advantage of constant data access, storage consolidation and centralized management. The Company also supplies memory for enterprise servers. Cambex is a member of the Fibre Channel Industry Association, the Storage Networking Industry Association, the FibreAlliance, and the HP Open SAN Initiative. Cambex can be reached at 781-890-6000, or on the World Wide Web at www.cambex.com.