Strategic Alliances

About Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.
Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. conducts engineering and marketing activities in Sunnyvale, CA and sales operations throughout the United States. Fujitsu Computer Products of America currently offers products and services including hard disk drives, scanners and scanner maintenance, Magneto-Optical drives, palm vein recognition technology, 10Gb Ethernet switches and degaussers. Fujitsu Computer Products of America is located at 1255 East Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94085. For more information about Fujitsu products and services, call us at 800-626-4686 or 408-746-7000.

For more information, please see: us.fujitsu.com/fcpa.

Seagate is the world抯 leading provider of hard disc drives, delivering products for a wide range of Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, and Consumer Electronics applications. Seagate leverages its technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers. www.seagate.com

About Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is a storage technology leader, founded in 2003 through the combination of Hitachis and IBMs hard disk drive businesses. Hitachi GST enables users to fully engage in the digital lifestyle by providing high-value hard disk storage in formats suitable for the office, on the road and in the home.

With its legacy in hard drive invention, Hitachi GST will lead the industry in celebrating the storage technologys golden anniversary in 2006. The hard drive has had a profound effect on the computing and consumer electronics industries after five decades of innovation. That heritage lives on at Hitachi GST today through products that define the standard for hard drive miniaturization, capacity, performance and reliability.

With approximately 26,000 employees worldwide, Hitachi GST offers a comprehensive range of hard drive products for desktop computers, high-performance servers, notebooks and consumer devices. For more information, please visit the companys web site at www.hitachi.com.

Count on Adaptec for the most reliable, easy-to-use storage, data protection and connectivity solutions, built on 25 years of industry leadership.

Adaptec SCSI, Serial ATA (SATA) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) host bus adapters and RAID controllers simplify and centralize management across platforms, and also provide the industrys most trusted RAID software, proven over years of use in demanding environments.

Our Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controllers offer a Unified Serial Architecture which supports both next-generation SAS and SATA disk drives to deliver storage solutions that fit performance, capacity, and budget needs now and as they change. www.adaptec.com

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About LSI Channel
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. LSI supplies its worldwide channel partners with access to the broadest line of storage adapters available on the market today, including 6Gb/s SATA and SAS HBAs (host bus adapters) and MegaRAID® and 3ware® controller cards. LSI provides channel partners, including distributors, vertical OEMs, resellers, system integrators, system builders and direct market resellers (DMRS), with sales support, tools and resources that help make a difference in a successful business.

"LSI is committed to providing our channel partners with a broad portfolio of best-in-class storage solutions," said Brent Blanchard, director of worldwide channel sales and marketing, Engenio Storage Group, LSI. "By being first to market with a complete lineup of high-performance 6Gb/s HBAs and RAID controllers, we're enabling channel partners to build systems for a wide variety of applications." www.lsi.com/channel www.lsi.com/channel

As a pioneer in the SCSI market, ATTO combines years of experience with next generation advancements and progressive technologies to bring to market a family of ExpressSAS RAID adapters. A trusted industry leader in storage connectivity, ATTO continues to satisfy the most stringent data protection requirements with the ATTO line of SAS/SATA RAID adapters. Using next generation technologies, Serial Attached SCSI and PCI Express (PCIe) connectivity, these adapters deliver blazing fast data throughput giving you the fastest access to your most critical asset - your data. www.attotech.com

Vitesse designs, develops and markets a diverse portfolio of high-performance, cost-competitive semiconductor solutions for communications and storage networks worldwide. Engineering excellence and dedicated customer service distinguish Vitesse as an industry leader in Gigabit Ethernet LAN, Ethernet-over-SONET, Advanced Switching, Fibre Channel, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Optical Transport and other applications. Vitesse innovation empowers customers to deliver superior products for Enterprise, Access, Metro and Core applications. www.vitesse.com

Open-E®, Inc is a leading provider of unified file and block storage management software solutions. The Open-E Data Storage Server (DSS™) offers support for Network Attached Storage (NAS), iSCSI, InfiniBand and Fibre Channel SAN (Storage Area Network) functionality all in a single, easy to use storage application. Open-E DSS also provides, at no extra cost, Automatic Failover and Failback for high-availability, Remote Mirroring for disaster recovery, WORM (Write Once Read Many) support for digital archiving, and NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) support for universal backup - ensuring better data security, increased fault tolerance, and improved availability of all data, ultimately delivering better overall performance and value.

For more details about Open-E please go to: www.open-e.com