San Jose, Calif. — November 14, 2002 — Alacritech®, Inc., the innovator of network accelerator solutions that enable fast and efficient servers and storage systems, today announced that IBM (NYSE:IBM) has selected the Alacritech Gigabit Accelerator to provide IBM TotalStorage Network Attached Storage (NAS) customers with efficient TCP/IP offload. The IBM TotalStorage NAS 200, 300 and 300G products running in conjunction with Alacritech accelerators are designed to provide enterprises with a powerful solution that supports rapid access to consolidated data.

Alacritech's Gigabit Accelerator is well known as providing industry-leading performance in NAS systems. The accelerator is based on the company's patented SLIC Technology® to offload network processing from host software to silicon to achieve outstanding performance in servers, NAS and iSCSI (Internet SCSI) storage devices.

"IBM's TotalStorage NAS servers were designed to provide customers open storage designed for the rigors of e-business collaboration," said David Vaughn, product marketing manager, IBM Storage Systems Group. "We selected Alacritech server accelerators based on the company's architecture for offloading network processing to improve system efficiency. Our customers can now purchase systems that support better performance and increased efficiency, along with investment protection as they migrate to IP-based storage."

"Alacritech single- and multi-port Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet accelerators are ideal for NAS implementations as they are based on a scalable architecture that allows all network interfaces to run in parallel at wire speed," said Kim Peyser, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Alacritech, Inc. "As data capacity is added to the NAS device, corresponding network bandwidth can be added as well, greatly improving overall system performance and supporting a strong return on investment for IBM's customer base."

About Alacritech Acceleration Technology
Alacritech's SLIC (session-layer interface control) Technology, a data-path TCP/IP offload and acceleration technology eliminates network throughput, compatibility and scalability issues. This technology enables data movement to be performed by the Internet Protocol Processor, an Alacritech-developed ASIC on the adapter, and TCP/IP connection management and error handling to be handled by host software. Alacritech's complete line of chip- and board-level products is based on the company's SLIC Technology. All Alacritech products offer industry-standard failover and link aggregation. The Alacritech Gigabit Accelerator is the only Integrated Storage Network Interface Card (IS-NIC) to provide hardware acceleration for both iSCSI storage and standard Ethernet traffic.

About Alacritech, Inc.
Alacritech, Inc. was founded by Larry Boucher, creator of the SCSI interface, to deliver upon his vision of eliminating the server bottleneck. Today, Alacritech is the innovator of network accelerator solutions that enable fast and efficient servers and storage systems. Alacritech's chip- and board-level products are based on the company's patented SLIC (session-layer interface control) Technology to optimize the performance of servers, network-attached storage and iSCSI storage devices. SLIC Technology is the first fully compatible and scalable technology to offload network protocol processing, primarily TCP/IP, from software on the host system to silicon on the adapter. Based in San Jose, California, Alacritech is privately held. Alacritech is a member of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance, the iSCSI Consortium and the Storage Networking Association (SNIA) as well as a founding member of the SNIA IP Storage Forum. Alacritech site: http://www.alacritech.com.

Alacritech, the Alacritech logo, SLIC Technology, and the SLIC Technology logo are registered trademarks of Alacritech, Inc. in the United States. IBM and TotalStorage are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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