BiTMICRO and Lodinaccess Join Forces to Accelerate Proliferation of Solid-State Storage Technology in France

Partnership to Address High Performance and Reliability Requirements of Scientific Research, Military, Aerospace, Avionics, Industrial and Enterprise Applications with BiTMICRO's Comprehensive Line of Flash Memory Solid-State Disk (SSD) Solutions

PARIS, France - March 31, 2004 -- BiTMICRO^® Networks, a pioneer in intelligent ATA / IDE, SCSI, USB, VME, Compact PCI, Firewire, Ethernet, and Fibre Channel flash solid-state storage solutions and Lodinaccess, provider of secure network and storage competencies and channel knowledge to large enterprises, VARs and vendors, announced today an agreement to jointly develop the solid-state market in France. Consummated during the Semaine Européene des Technologies de l'Information (SETI) 2004 being held from March 30 - April 1, 2004 in Paris, France, the partnership is one of the intiatives resulting from BiTMICRO's strategic development of a mature channel-based business model in France and the surrounding European nations.

BiTMICRO's flagship product is the multi-patented E-Disk^® line of solid state storage solutions -- renowned for its security features, small form factor, ruggedness and extreme reliability under hostile environments and field deployments typically found in military and industrial applications. On the other hand, enterprise applications stand to benefit from the E-Disk^® flash drives' high performance FlashBus™ technology, highest storage densities and extremely low power consumption.

Lodinaccess is the latest member of FlashCIRCLE™, BiTMICRO Networks channel partner program that provides partners with the four critical pillars of support; namely: Sales, Skills, Technical and Marketing. The program is geared to make BiTMICRO^® resellers successful in selling BiTMICRO^® solutions in their territories.

"BiTMICRO Networks provides a unique set of high reliability products that provide very fast access to critical data. We are very excited about the distribution of the leading edge E-Disk^® line of products in France from the smallest SSD devices for embedded computing systems to terabyte-sized high performance SSD enclosures for scientific research applications," says Bernard Le Moing, Managing Director of Lodinaccess.

"We are extremely pleased to have Lodinaccess spearhead our business development program for France. Lodinaccess' market and industry expertise in government, finance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and telecommunications will prove to be extremely valuable in penetrating the high technology and military customer base in France," states Rudy Bruce, President of BiTMICRO Networks.

For pricing and more E-Disk^® technology information, visit http://www.bitmicro.com or contact BiTMICRO at 45550 Northport Loop East, Fremont, CA 94538 USA. Sales Telephone: +510-74E-DISK / +510-743-3475. Fax: +510-623-2342. E-mail: info@bitmicro.com.

About Lodinaccess

Lodinaccess' mission is to import, promote and distribute leading edge hardware and software product solutions aimed at securing the information system of the enterprise, to a dedicated network of well-trained VARS. Located in France, Lodinaccess (www.lodinaccess.com) was formed from a Shiva Corp Subsidiary after Intel Corporation acquired Shiva. Lodinaccess carries ADSL routers, VPN Gateways and SSL cards from Shiva; intrusion detection NID from NFR Security; NAS & back up solutions based on Intel and Maxtor components; and TAP from Network critical. The company offers more than standard support to VARs. It plays the vendor role in the market dealing with education, relations with the press and offering first class marketing, sales and technical assistance, so that their VARs can concentrate on identifying, qualifying and closing complex deals.

BiTMICRO Networks (http://www.bitmicro.com), a privately held California corporation, is the leading provider of rugged and high performance non-volatile solid-state disk, flash disk drive, and network storage and management solutions. E-Disk^® storage solutions are offered with SCSI, IDE / ATA, Fibre Channel, USB, Firewire, Compact PCI, VME, PMC and Ethernet interfaces in 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch hard disk drive footprints, single-wide PMC, 3U and 6U board, and 19-inch rack mount configurations scalable up to several terabytes of pure solid state storage.

E-Disk^®SAN StorView is a web-based SAN storage management software. E-Disk^® SafeCapacity-Hotfile software complements E-Disk^® storage solutions by effectively managing different types of disk subsystems and increasing complex data sets such that a constant high level of file system I/O performance is maintained.

E-Disk^®, BiTMICRO Networks^®, BiTMICRO^®, securErase^®, DataSentinel and FlashBus™ are registered trademarks or trademarks of BiTMICRO Networks, Inc. Other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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