Exanet Appoints Howard Janzen to its Board of Directors.

Telecommunications Industry Leader Joins Clustered NAS Storage Leader

NEW YORK -- Exanet, the leading provider of high-end clustered NAS software, today announced the appointment of Howard Janzen, a recognized leader in the telecommunications industry, to its Board of Directors.

Howard Janzen has over 30 years experience in both the telecommunications and energy sectors, including serving as President of Sprint Business Solutions. In this role, he led the business unit responsible for Sprint's worldwide $12 billion revenue customer base, ranging from small businesses to Sprint's largest domestic and international accounts. His responsibilities included integration of Sprint's wireless, wireline, and local voice and data services.

Prior to joining Sprint, Janzen served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer for Williams Communications, where he led the company in completing its $7 billion, next-generation fiber network.

"The addition of Howard to Exanet's board is an important milestone in the development of Exanet into a global company" said Dr. Giora Yaron, founder of Exanet and Chairman of its Board of Directors.

Rami Schwartz, Exanet CEO, added, "Telecommunications companies are actively seeking ways to deliver content, in order to offset increasing competition and declining revenues. We feel confident that Howard's expertise in telecommunications will be immensely helpful to Exanet, as we continue to expand our presence in this market with a system that offers effective solutions to the most demanding enterprise challenges."

"I believe that Exanet's prospects are bright", said Howard Janzen. "The company appears to be well underway in its global penetration of a wide range of market segments with a product that is poised to change the economics of data storage."

Janzen serves on the Governor's Science & Technology Council for the State of Oklahoma and is a Commissioner and Vice Chairman for the Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC). Janzen also serves as a board member for Anyware Mobile Solutions, Comsat International, GTT and Sonus Networks.

About Exanet

Exanet continues to break the storage limits with its ExaStore[R] clustered NAS software solution. Designed for the most demanding enterprise customers, ExaStore delivers capacity-on-demand for data-intensive applications while simplifying network storage management. The system's breakthrough storage architecture enables unlimited on-the-fly scalability with unparalleled performance and the best cost-per-IOPS of any NAS cluster solution on the market today.

Exanet is headquartered in Israel, with US headquarters in New York, and offices in Europe and Japan. ExaStore systems are available through Exanet partners worldwide. For more information, please visit www.exanet.com.

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