Procom Emerges as a Top Choice for Geographic Information Systems.

Business Editors

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 18, 2001

Scalable Capacity, High Performance NetFORCE Appliances Handle Extreme

Storage Requirements of GIS Applications

Procom Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:PRCM), a leading manufacturer of information storage appliances and a pioneer in network attached storage (NAS), announced that its NetFORCE(TM) product line has been field-proven in the data-intensive geographic information systems (GIS) industry.

NetFORCE products, which combine best-in-class performance and simple plug-and-play installation, offer an effective storage solution for data-intensive GIS materials such as maps, images and other topographic documents.

Geographic information systems technology is growing in demand among governmental and industrial users. The technology enables users to develop and manage database mapping systems that have a variety of uses from infrastructure management to topographic imagery. However, because they manage and manipulate large, specialized database files of maps, images and other topographic documents, GIS systems put an extreme burden on a user's storage capabilities.

Thanks to its unique architecture and proprietary software applications, the NetFORCE product line by Procom Technologies provides organizations with GIS system needs with a reliable, scalable and cost-effective solution. With their high scalability and plug-and-play connectivity, NetFORCE products accommodate the ever-increasing demand on storage resources while avoiding downtime.

"Customers looking for the capability to handle the type of challenging, data-intensive environments GIS systems demand, while achieving optimum performance and reliability will find that solution at Procom," said Parsa Rohani, Vice President of Marketing at Procom. "Our customers are finding that our NetFORCE products enable them to manage those loads and scale accordingly without adverse effects on performance."

Organizations benefit from NetFORCE deployment

Because NetFORCE combines ease of use with scalability and affordability, it provides a GIS solution that is equally attractive to large and small organizations. For example, El Paso Water Utilities deployed Procom's NetFORCE NAS filer to expand the storage, management and access capabilities of their GIS data while at the same time minimizing costs.

At the Land Records Department in Lincoln County, Wisconsin, IS managers used NetFORCE to consolidate the department's GIS data for land use planning, zoning, tax information and population density, and to make data more easily accessible by all users.

The ability of NetFORCE to operate in mixed network environments was key for the complex GIS systems operations of Aero-Metric, a North American leader in the acquisition and processing of digital aerial imagery. City and county agencies, regional planners, state transportation departments, utility companies and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers all rely on Aero-Metrics for storage-intensive services for aerial photography, scanning, mapping and other GIS information.

By deploying one NetFORCE NAS appliance, Aero-Metric was able to centralize the maintenance of production data and large amount of disk storage.

"Streamlining these functions onto one Procom NetFORCE NAS appliance has proven to be far more practical and cost-effective," said Michael Mertens, Aero-Metric IT manager. "Now we can keep entire projects on one system rather than on multiple servers and backup tapes."

For detailed NetFORCE case studies, please see Procom's web site at www.procom.com.

About NetFORCE

The NetFORCE product family addresses the full spectrum of enterprise storage requirements with scalable solutions ranging from 72 gigabytes to 1.8 terabytes for the NetFORCE 1000 Series and to more than 7 TB with the NetFORCE 3000 Series.

Every NetFORCE product features best-in-class performance and simple plug-and-play installation. Procom's latest NetFORCE innovations include the new NetFORCE 1700 appliance, that shatters industry standards by offering the highest storage density - 1.8 TB in 5U of space - at the lowest cost per megabyte in its class; and the highly-acclaimed NetFORCE 3100 HA, which deploys Fibre Channel storage technology, offering advantages in speed, reliability and ease of scalability.

About Procom Technology

Procom Technology is a pioneer in network attached storage (NAS). The company designs and produces information storage and management solutions based on Procom's Adaptive Network Storage Architecture (ANSA) which features optimized embedded software for seamless integration into all major networking environments. Procom's products are used by a number of Fortune 2000 companies. Information about Procom, its products and services can be found at http://www.procom.com.

This release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements about market acceptance of NAS appliances, future growth of NAS product sales and adoption of NAS as a storage standard. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. For a more detailed discussion of factors that affect the Company's operating results, interested parties should review risk factors set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.