Storageflex Inc. partners with Texas Memory Systems to deliver Fibre Channel Solid State Disks for I/O Improvements Markham, Ontario, Canada, October 7, 2002 - To extend the amount of cache available on a RAID Subsystems to improve Database Application Performance, customers are revisiting the idea of implementing Solid State Disks for Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks. "To relieve the bottleneck caused by slower disks in a high I/O Database environment, only increased memory will solve the problem," said Vice President Paul Chan, “Unlike memory within servers which are volatile or memory within a raid that's limited in size, an addition of a Texas Memory RAMSAN Fibre Channel Solid State Disk is a cost effective method of alleviating such bottlenecks for Multiple Servers on a SAN. Customers will benefit from increased ROI in existing hardware investments for multiple servers” Since 1978, Texas Memory Systems has designed, manufactured, and marketed the fastest storage subsystems available. TMS provides solutions that offer the best value and highest performance available in the solid state disk and digital signal processing markets. More information is available at http://www.texmemsys.com. Storageflex Inc. is a Canadian manufacturer of high performance, high availability enterprise storage products since 1983. The company pioneered many of the IT industry's first tape backup and RAID Systems through the 1980's. Storageflex's HFD DiskArray set the standards by which most of the IT industry's RAID Systems are designed. Storageflex Inc. sells its products through an international network of high-profile distributors and resellers in more than 30 countries around the world. For more information, visit the Storageflex Web Site at http://www.storageflex.com