NETEX SHOWCASES DATA REPLICATION OPTIMIZER (DRO) AT THE NETWORK APPLIANCE WORLDWIDE SALES KICKOFF

Company’s HyperIP supercharges replication applications
to deliver minimum 300 percent performance boost

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 11, 2005 — NetEx, the worldwide leader in high performance data transport solutions, showcased the company’s HyperIP at the NetApp® Worldwide Sales Kickoff Partner Fair in Las Vegas this month.

NetApp Worldwide Sales Kickoff brings together the company’s entire sales force to hear from NetApp leadership in preparation for selling in the upcoming fiscal year. NetApp partners demonstrate their latest compatible products and solutions for conference attendees at the event’s Partner Fair.

“Our involvement with the NetApp Sales Kickoff is an important avenue for showcasing our latest technological advancements with the team of one of our most important partners,” said Robert MacIntyre, Vice President Business Development and Marketing at NetEx. “By bringing HyperIP to an intimate setting, such as the NetApp Partner Fair, we are able to increase visibility, educate an enthusiastic audience and effectively promote synergistic opportunities for our heterogeneous storage solutions.”

NetEx’s HyperIP supercharges NetApp unified storage systems, a minimum of 300 percent, to deliver to customers industry-leading performance, application support and data integrity for WAN-based IP data transfers. No other IP solution offers comparable application acceleration and bandwidth conservation with the highest end-to-end throughput. HyperIP ensures that challenging data transfers are consistently completed on time between distributed servers and/or storage controllers for remote IP storage networking, bulk data transfer between servers, high performance technical computing, financial, medical and digital video images transfers. HyperIP brings the same benefits to extended iSCSI replication applications, providing better performance over distance, improved link utilization and a shield against packet loss.

About NetEx
Formed in 1999 as a spin-off of Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek®), privately-held NetEx has provided the world's fastest data transport in the industry, along with guaranteed data delivery, for over 20 years to more than 100 of the world's largest and most sophisticated organizations, including some of the most prestigious providers of financial, transportation and telecommunications services and government entities. Customers include Telstra, NTT, Verizon, BellSouth, Qwest, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, LloydsTSB, NDC Health, IRS, American, Lufthansa, Northwest, United Airlines and Kellogg. For more information about NetEx, NetEx/IP or HyperIP, visit www.netex.com or call +1 763-694-4300.

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