Newbury Park, CA – February 14, 2006 - iQstor Networks, Inc., a leading developer of intelligent and integrated Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, today announced that it has qualified the QLogic SANbox® 5600 4Gb Fibre Channel switch and SANblade® 4Gb Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapters (HBAs) with the recently announced iQ2280, the industry’s first all-in-one 4Gb FC-SATA II storage platform with enterprise level data services software.

“Qualification of the end-to-end QLogic SAN infrastructure is part of iQstor’s commitment to ensure interoperability with industry leading manufacturers of storage networking products,” said Albert Saraie, Director of Marketing at iQstor Networks. “The iQ2280, SANbox 5600 and SANblade HBA combination greatly simplifies deployments while providing higher performance, robust reliability and ease-of-use, while bringing significant value-add to OEMs, VARs and integrators.”

The iQ2280 storage platform from iQstor Networks delivers an economical FC to SATA II solution for the small to mid-sized enterprise customers and combines high availability, manageability, data protection and enterprise-level functionality. The iQ2280 Storage System, housed in a 19” 3U rack mountable enclosure, provides 7.5TB of storage capacity and touts a 3 Gb/s disk data transfer rate.  To ease support issues while ensuring constant data protection and delivery, all key internal components are hot-swappable with dual active-active storage controllers offering transparent fail-over, 4 x 4Gb/s FC host ports, RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 3, 5, 50, 6 and support for Native Command Queuing (NCQ). 

"Both our companies are committed to bringing to market higher performing products that are aimed at reducing integration time, while having the ability to interoperate with standard industry offerings,” added Frank Berry, Vice President of Marketing at QLogic. “QLogic delivers ‘a better 4Gb’ to our mutual customers with a suite of technology advancements that help storage administrators ensure complete business continuity, maintain application performance and cost-effectively scale their networks.”

The iQ2280 is well suited to applications that require storage with varying performance and availability, but where cost is a strong consideration. With the iQ2280, storage administrators can quickly and cost effectively optimize storage solutions for diverse applications in media and entertainment, broadcasting to near-line and archiving applications for financial, legal and educational institutions.

About iQstor Networks, Inc.
A privately held company based in Newbury Park, CA, iQstor is a leader in the innovative design and delivery of storage solutions with embedded enterprise level functionality to channel partners worldwide. Its storage solutions include Fibre Channel, iSCSI and SATA intelligent storage systems and expansion enclosures, policy based storage management, data services software, professional services, support and training. For more information on iQstor, visit the company’s web site at www.iqstor.com.

Press and Analyst Contact:
Albert Saraie
iQstor Networks, Inc.
Ph: 805-376-1010
Email: asaraie@iqstor.com

Curtis Chan
CHAN & ASSOCIATES, INC.
Ph: 714-447-4993
Email: cj_chan@chanandassoc.com