FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

iQstor Qualifies Brocade SilkWorm Intelligent Fabric Switches
for its iQ1000 Family of SAN Products

Qualification Delivers Additional Storage Infrastructure Benefits
for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

Newbury Park, Calif. – April 29, 2003 – iQstor Networks, Inc., developer of integrated Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, has announced the qualification of two leading Brocade Silkworm® fabric switches as interoperable with its iQ1000 family of SAN products. iQstor’s iQ1000 Storage System provides cost-effective, automated SAN solutions that deliver enterprise-level data services features to small and mid-sized businesses (SMB). Qualification of the Brocade SilkWorm 3200 8-port Entry Fabric Switch and SilkWorm 3800 16-port Enterprise Fabric switch products allows iQstor to leverage additional SAN management and Fibre Channel fabric discovery features of the Brocade switches to extend the existing iQstor SAN Manager capabilities.

“The qualification of Brocade’s SilkWorm 3200 and 3800 switches is part of our continuing effort to extend the reach of our iQ1000 product family to interoperate with industry-leading SAN infrastructure devices that are in use at SMB facilities today,” Jason Lo, president and CEO, iQstor Networks, said. “With the iQ1000, we will provide the small and mid-size market a cost-effective storage solution that includes a wealth of enterprise-level data services, and this qualification will allow more of the small and mid-size market to build larger, more flexible and more affordable enterprise-level storage area networks using iQstor’s iQ1000 in conjunction with Brocade’s industry-standard fabric devices.”

Management of SAN devices and storage fabric is made available through the iQstor SAN Manager, an intuitive network based central management utility. As a member of the Brocade Fabric Access program, iQstor has developed the ability for its SAN Manager utility to communicate with the Brocade Fabric Access API for switch management and fabric topology discovery. The iQstor SAN Manager enables the storage administrators to monitor and dynamically configure and manage a network of iQ1000 storage systems from a single management console. The iQstor SAN Manager features a Web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) utility that provides simple point-and-click mouse operations to configure and monitor the SAN.

iQstor has embedded storage management and data services into the storage processors, allowing their SAN solutions to reduce the workload of storage administrators at small and mid-size enterprises and optimize their storage resources, increasing productivity and reducing operating costs. The company is committed to making enterprise-level data services features -- such as storage virtualization, snapshot, mirroring, remote replication, and policy based storage provisioning -- affordable for the small and mid-size market, enabling storage administrators to benefit from greater ease of integration and improved cost-efficiencies as they manage their storage growth requirements.

About iQstor Networks, Inc.

A privately held company, Newbury Park, CA-based iQstor launched in January 2002. The company's core management team possesses more than 50+ collective years storage industry expertise in engineering, product development, global management and marketing. The iQstor vision is to embed expertise into the storage subsystem that significantly reduces the workload of storage administrators in small and mid-size environments. These automated tools can manage ever-increasing amounts of data as well as the different storage policies that each company maintains. The ultimate goal is storage that is intuitive to use and scales without disruption. For more information on iQstor, visit the company's web site at www.iqstor.com.