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nStor Signs Strategic Technology Partnership With InoStor for Advanced Data Protection Patented Technology Maintains Data Integrity, Bolstering High Availability Storage Solutions CARLSBAD, Calif., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- nStor Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of nStor Technologies, Inc., (AMEX:NSO) and InoStor Corporation, a Tandberg Data Company, today announced a strategic technology partnership to incorporate InoStor's advanced data protection capabilities into nStor's storage solutions. As part of the partnership, nStor will initially embed InoStor's patented RAIDn technology into its NexStor(R) 4700S SATA series to deliver economical yet powerful data availability, reliability and capacity for meeting the growing requirements of storage-intensive applications. With InoStor's innovative RAIDn technology, nStor can provide enterprise-class functionality, including high-density, multi-drive protection and built-in scalability more affordably and much easier than typical high-end RAID systems. The addition of nStor's StorView storage management software streamlines deployment and management of the integrated storage platform. As the market for disk drives explodes there is increasing demand to provide an added level of protection to ensuring the data is continuously available. As drive capacities grow, so does the time required to rebuild the data and restore data protection. This expands the window of vulnerability where critical data is at risk during the rebuild process. RAIDn significantly reduces this vulnerability by maintaining data integrity. According to Lisa Hart, nStor's executive vice president of marketing and alliances, InoStor's patented RAIDn technology complements nStor's NexStor 4700 SATA family to bring cost-effective, continuous data protection and advanced storage management to small-to-medium-sized businesses. "Together, nStor and InoStor are lowering both technology and cost barriers by enabling companies of all sizes to benefit from sophisticated high-availability features without sacrificing ease of use or flexibility," she said. "We are extremely pleased to leverage our collective strengths and offer a full-featured, economical storage solution that meets a wide variety of business demands." nStor's NexStor systems currently are deployed across a broad spectrum of video, investment banking, healthcare and defense applications. Introduced in October 2004, InoStor's RAIDn is a software library with a set of patented algorithms that efficiently implement a parity scheme across an array of disk drives to protect the most rigorous data environments against random, multiple drive failures. "The market imperative for multi-drive redundancy is apparent with vendors scrambling to provide so-called RAID 6 two-drive protection," said David Licosati, InoStor's vice president of business development. "RAIDn goes well beyond RAID 6 providing not only efficient two-drive protection but multi-drive protection against data loss for two, three or more drives. nStor's NextStor 4700 SATA family has the feature functions set that positions it as an industry leader." About InoStor InoStor Corporation, a Tandberg Data Company, is a network storage technologies company. Its innovative products include network attached storage (NAS) appliances, tape-based automation, plus tape drive and media solutions. The Company's patented RAIDn(TM) technology, available in InoStor's NAS devices and also available to licensees, delivers new standards of reliability and performance at an affordable cost. InoStor is also the exclusive Western Hemisphere supplier of the highly reliable line of Tandberg Data automation solutions, tape drives and media including SLR(TM), DLTtape(TM) and LTO technologies. InoStor's corporate headquarters are located at 13000 Gregg Street, Poway, Calif. 92064. For more information call (858) 726-1800 or visit http://www.inostor.com/. About nStor Corporation, Inc. Headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif., nStor is a wholly owned subsidiary of nStor Technologies, Inc. (AMEX:NSO) and developer of data storage solutions that are ideally suited for both large enterprises as well as small to mid-sized businesses. The Company's flagship controller technology and StorView software form the foundation for the NexStor family of turnkey solutions that support Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX and Macintosh operating environments. Designed for storage-intensive environments and mission-critical applications, nStor's products are offered in various architectures including Fibre Channel, SCSI and SATA and are focused on addressing customers' business needs and applications. The Company markets its storage solutions through a global network of OEM partners and systems integrators. For more information, visit http://www.nstor.com/. This press release includes statements that may constitute "forward-looking" statements, usually containing the words "believe," "estimated," "project," "expect," "anticipate," or similar expressions. These statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that would cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the Company's inability to increase sales to current customers and to expand its customer base, continued acceptance of the Company's products in the marketplace, the Company's inability to improve the gross margin on its products, competitive factors, dependence upon third-party vendors, outcome of litigation, insufficient funding and other risks detailed in the Company's periodic report filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release. nStor and StorView are registered trademarks of nStor Technologies, Inc. RAIDn logo are trademarks of InoStor. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: nStor Corporation, Inc. CONTACT: Veena Raman of nStor Corporation, Inc., +1-760-683-2500, ; or Sue Hetzel of HetzelMeade Communications, +1-760-434-9927, , for nStor Corporation, Inc. Web site: http://www.inostor.com/ Web site: http://www.nstor.com/

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