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NeoScale NAMED THEME LEAD FOR STORAGE SECURITY AT SNW 2002

NeoScale Systems Inc, a provider of enterprise storage security solutions for the burgeoning network storage market, has announced that it will be demonstrating its transparent storage security solution at Storage Networking World's Interoperability and Solutions Demonstration lab. NeoScale has also been named Theme Lead for the security-focused portion of the demonstration. The demonstration is entitled, "Securing Your Storage Network." Storage Networking World takes place Oct. 27-30 in Orlando, Florida.

"Users of storage networks have identified security as one of their primary concerns. That is the reason why the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) launched the Storage Security Industry Forum earlier this year. The SSIF complements the existing work of the SNIA Security Technical Working Group," said Mike Alvarado, NeoScale's senior product manager and chair of the SSIF. "Together, these two SNIA entities enable SNIA members to collaborate in a vendor-neutral environment and create a focal point for industry and user interchange on secure storage networks."

Employing a multi-tier defense strategy enables a more cost-effective approach to safeguard enterprise storage investments. SNIA, which co-presents Storage Networking World with Computerworld, has been actively working with vendors across the whole spectrum of hardware and software components to enable storage networks to be trusted, reliable, and mature elements of IT infrastructure. Storage Networking World's Interoperability and Solutions Demonstration lab will enable NeoScale to showcase its CryptoStor family of storage security solutions which offer simple, reliable and secure stored data protection.

NeoScale will showcase CryptoStor in both the lab's Data Protection Theme, as well as the Security Theme. The focus of the demonstration is to illustrate the transparency and ease of use of an appliance-based approach to storage security. As well, demonstrating how storage security appliances provide tremendous flexibility to enough global organizations to easily scale and precisely calibrate how they deploy data protection into existing storage infrastructures.

About NeoScale

Founded in June 2000, NeoScale Systems is a leading provider of enterprise storage security solutions, which provide robust, cost-effective data protection for networked storage. NeoScale CryptoStor is a wire-speed, policy-based storage security appliance that delivers network storage and media privacy. NeoScale is backed by Bay Partners and LightSpeed Venture Partners, two top tier venture capital firms specializing in network infrastructure. NeoScale is located at 1500 McCandless Drive, Milpitas, California, 95035. The company can be reached by telephone at 408-586-1300, by email at info@neoscale.com or on the Web at www.neoscale.com.

Contact: Mike Alvarado, NeoScale Systems Inc, 408-586-1358, mike@neoscale.com.