TrueSAN Networks Recruits Louie Llamas as Vice President of Sales.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2000

Brings Strong Industry Track Record, Seasoned Management

TrueSAN Networks, Inc., a leader in Fibre Channel storage-area network solutions for the internetworked enterprise, today announced that it has recruited Louie Llamas to the position of Vice President of Sales.

Louie brings to TrueSAN a strong and long-standing background in storage and disk technology sales leadership, team building, and strategic management.

From 1998 through 2000, Louie served as the Vice President of Sales for Terastor, a developer of near-field recording (NFR) disk technology. Prior to Terastor, Louie was the Vice President of Enterprise Storage Sales for Western Digital, a manufacturer of rigid disk subsystems. Prior to Western Digital, Louie also served as Executive Director of Sales for the northwest region for Seagate Technology, the world's leading supplier of hard disks to the Fibre Channel storage networking industry. Louie received a degree in marketing from the University of Texas, El Paso.

"Louie is an incredible and very exciting addition to the TrueSAN team," stated Thomas Isakovich, President and CEO of TrueSAN Networks. "Louie's strong sales leadership, keen industry perspective, and track record of success will be instrumental in growing TrueSAN into the global leader in storage networking solutions."

"I'm excited about the opportunity to build a sales organization whose charter will be to provide the marketplace with what they have requested: a truly open SAN framework," stated Mr. Llamas. "Combined with its revolutionary storage networking infrastructure solutions and world-class support, TrueSAN will truly redefine the means by which customers leverage their most crucial asset: information."

About TrueSAN Networks, Inc.

TrueSAN Networks, Inc. is a Silicon Valley pioneer delivering open, maximum-performance end-to-end enterprise Fibre Channel storage-area network (SAN) solutions for bandwidth-critical applications, enterprise networks, and Internet datacenters. When TrueSAN announced its ground-breaking TrueFibre(TM) technologies, it set new standards for network storage performance, architecture scalability, cross-platform integration, and data-centric storage management. TrueSAN's extensive SANcare(TM) program offers flexible and thorough service and support options. Additionally, TrueSAN offers SANdesigner(TM), the exclusive graphical SAN configuration tool, which enables users to design complete storage networks online. For additional information, visit http:\\www.truesan.com or contact the company directly at [e-mail] .