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RORKE DATA AND NuView PARTNER ON WINDOWS STORAGE MIGRATION

Rorke Data, a subsidiary of San Jose-based Bell Microproducts Inc, and a leader in SAN, RAID, and Archive storage solutions for the digital Post-Production, Broadcast, Healthcare, and Prepress industries, and NuView, a provider of software that simplifies enterprise storage, have announced a strategic partnership between the two companies. Through their partnership, Rorke Data will incorporate NuView StorageX automated file management software into its portfolio of enterprise networked storage solutions and services.

"We are excited about this partnership with NuView," said Herb Rorke, CEO, Rorke Data. "Rorke Data selected StorageX to manage high-speed migrations of data from legacy storage systems to new Rorke-delivered SAN and NAS solutions. Rorke Data is focused on delivering storage systems to the broadcast and post-production, healthcare, and digital publishing markets; as well as corporate enterprise. The addition of StorageX to our solution set allows us to increase overall installation and deployment efficiencies to these customers, while delivering an increase in their capacity utilization, reducing data administration costs, and completely eliminating any need for client reconfiguration during the deployment process."

NuView StorageX is software for managing and optimizing distributed file storage in Windows environments. Companies can use StorageX to address their needs for enterprise-wide file management, building and managing global namespaces, rapid disaster recovery, and heterogeneous replication. StorageX products are designed to help Windows customers manage their explosive file storage requirements by optimizing capacity, increasing availability, reducing client downtime, and dramatically simplifying file management while reducing storage costs.

NuView CEO, Rahul Mehta, said, "The integration of NuView StorageX with Rorke Data's expertise in providing value-added, state-of-the-art storage management solutions will deliver significant value to Windows customers in key vertical markets. Rorke Data's leadership in providing storage solutions to these industries makes them an ideal partner for NuView. We are very happy to be working with the Rorke Data team."

StorageX-based solutions and related services are available immediately through all of Rorke Data's U.S. sales locations.

About Rorke Data

Rorke Data is a full digital storage solutions provider with expertise in Fibre-Channel RAID, SAN, DVD, tape and optical libraries, Unix, NT and Mac environments, high bandwidth networks, and related professional services. Founded in 1985, Rorke Data is a subsidiary of Bell Microproducts in San Jose, CA, and is composed of four divisions: Medical Diagnostic Imaging, Digital Video & Broadcast, Digital Prepress & Publishing, as well as a Technical Services division. More information about Rorke Data can be found at www.rorke.com. Rorke Data is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bell Microproducts Inc.

About Bell Microproducts

Bell Microproducts is an international value-added provider of a wide range of high technology products, solutions and services to the industrial and commercial marketplace. The company's offering includes semiconductors, computer platforms, peripherals, and storage products of various types including: desktop, high-end computer and storage subsystems, Fibre-Channel connectivity products, RAID, NAS & SAN storage systems and back-up products.

Bell Microproducts is an industry-recognized specialist in storage products and is one of the world's largest storage-centric value-added distributors. The company's products are available at any level of integration from components through subsystem assemblies, to fully integrated, tested and certified system solutions. The company adds value with a broad range of services including testing, software loading, kitting, mass storage system integration, and computer system integration. Trained and certified technical personnel complete each of these processes at Bell Microproducts' ISO 9002 facilities. Bell Microproducts markets and distributes more than 150 brand name product lines, as well as its own BellStor storage and TradeMark computer brands, to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), contract electronic manufacturing services (EMS) customers, value-added resellers (VARs) and system integrators in the Americas and Europe. More information can be found in SEC filings, or by visiting the Bell Microproducts Web site at www.bellmicro.com.

About NuView

NuView, www.nuview.com, is a provider of software that simplifies enterprise storage. In partnership with some of the world's leading companies, NuView is delivering enterprise technology that makes it easier for companies to find and manage the information they need when they need it while also reducing the cost and complexity of networked storage. With an experienced management team drawn from leaders of the technology industry, NuView is a rapidly growing, privately held company with headquarters in Houston.

Contact: Teri Golas of NuView, Houston, 281-497-0620, terri@nuview.com.