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IMPERIAL TECHNOLOGY OPENS SALES OFFICE IN JAPAN

The new office will enable Imperial to better support existing channel partners and is in response to growing demand in the region for Imperial's leading acceleration solutions.

"The number of Imperial resellers in the Asian Pacific region has doubled over the past six months," said Imperial president and CEO Robert David. "The growth has exceeded expectations to a point where local management is a business necessity."

Imperial's new sales office is located 30 minutes from Tokyo by train and will be under the guidance of Imperial's Managing Director of Asia Pacific, Muneo Kobayashi. Mr. Kobayashi has over 20 years experience in the storage industry and has worked extensively in Japan with OEM and channel sales. He will oversee Imperial resellers in Japan, Thailand, Korea, Taiwan, China, and Australia.

"Companies in Asia are discovering the strategic advantage Imperial's products deliver in this competitive economy," said Kobayashi. "The devices eliminate I/O bottlenecks, reduce wait time, and allow users to perform more work without upgrading to faster servers or incurring higher CPU-based licensing fees. They represent an excellent value proposition."

Imperial's MegaRam and SANaccelerator systems have been recognized by industry analysts and trade journals as cost-effective solutions for data-intensive businesses like financial services, e-business, telecommunications, insurance and health care. The systems provide performance increases from 200-800% and are installed worldwide.

About Imperial Technology Inc.

Headquartered in El Segundo, CA., Imperial Technology has over a decade of experience designing and manufacturing high-performance storage systems that shatter I/O bottlenecks to supercharge traditional storage. Imperial's products are installed on Sun, HP, Compaq/Digital, IBM and Unisys systems. They integrate and install seamlessly in environments that run Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft, Veritas and EMC products.

Imperial Technology is available online at www.imperialtech.com.