Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 13th 2002, International Broadcaster’s Consortium (IBC), Hall 7, Stand 535 – Rorke Data, Inc., a subsidiary of San Jose-based Bell Microproducts, Inc. (NASDAQ:BELM), and a leader in SAN, RAID, and Archive storage solutions for the digital Post-Production, Broadcast, and Prepress industries announced today that it will demonstrate the first ever file-level SAN management application developed for Apple Computer’s Macintosh OSX operating system.
Rorke Data, in partnership with it’s sister organization, Bell Microproducts Enterprise Solutions Europe, located in Almere, The Netherlands, will introduce the new SAN management software to a wide range of digital content application developers and their worldwide reseller organizations at this year’s IBC 2002 trade event.
"ImageSAN OSX is the next logical development milestone for the ImageSAN product suite, and the IBC trade show is the perfect venue for the roll-out“ explained Joe Rorke, Vice President of Marketing for Rorke Data. Rorke continued, “ImageSAN was developed specifically for the world-wide digital content market space that includes non-linear editing and special effects for film and video; it is a data storage-intensive vertical market where the Macintosh is a dominate force.”
The benefits of SAN-based workflow for content creation is now an accepted premise, however typical SAN application developers are focused on general IT Enterprise applications” said Bob Herzan, Vice President of Sales for Rorke Data’s AV Markets, “ImageSAN OSX is the direct result of Rorke Data’s 15 year history and association with key content creation application developers that focus on Film, Video and Broadcast. A large proportion of the content users are perfect candidates for a robust, yet easy-to-use SAN solution; they live in a world without MIS Directors, where large-sized data files are the norm, and collaborative Macintosh workgroups drive the workflow”. Herzan concluded, “Our application is designed to emulate a local drive look and feel familiar to editors and effects specialists. This local drive implementation greatly simplifies the ImageSAN installation and usage when compared to competitor’s networked drive-based deployments inherent to the traditional MIS environment.”
Rorke Data will make an upgrade program available for Macintosh OS 9-based SAN application users, regardless of the brand of the SAN application or the original point of purchase.
ImageSAN PC’ and the new ImageSAN OSX are available exclusively through Rorke Data and it’s worldwide Authorized Resellers. The MSRP is $1500 USD/user license. Demonstrations will be available at IBC 2002 in Amsterdam this September 13th-17th at Hall 7, Stand# 535. For more information go to: www.imagesan.com
About Rorke Data
Rorke Data is a full digital storage solutions provider with expertise in Fibre-Channel RAID, SAN, DVD, tape and optical libraries, Unix, NT & Mac environments, high bandwidth networks, and related professional services. Founded in 1985, Rorke Data is a subsidiary of Bell Microproducts in San Jose, CA, and is composed of four divisions:
Medical Diagnostic Imaging, Digital Video & Broadcast, Digital Prepress & Publishing, as well as a Technical Services division. More information about Rorke Data can be found at www.rorke.com. Rorke Data is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bell Microproducts, Inc.
(Nasdaq: BELM).
About Bell Microproducts
Bell Microproducts is an international value-added provider of a wide range of high technology products, solutions, and services to the industrial and commercial marketplace. The company’s offering includes semiconductors, computer platforms, peripherals, and storage products of various types including: desktop, high-end computer & storage subsystems, Fibre-Channel connectivity products, RAID, NAS & SAN storage systems and back-up products. Bell Microproducts is an industry-recognized specialist in storage products and is one of the world’s largest storage-centric value-added distributors.
The company’s products are available at any level of integration from components through subsystem assemblies, to fully integrated, tested and certified system solutions. The company adds value with a broad range of services including testing, software loading, kitting, mass storage system integration, and computer system integration. Trained and certified technical personnel complete each of these processes at Bell Microproducts’ ISO 9002 facilities. Bell Microproducts markets and distributes more than 150 brand name product lines, as well as its own BellStor storage and TradeMark computer brands, to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), contract electronic manufacturing services (EMS) customers, value-added resellers (VARs) and system integrators in the Americas and Europe. More information can be found in SEC filings, or by visiting the Bell Microproducts website at www.bellmicro.com.
About Bell Microproducts Solutions Europe
Bell Microproducts Solutions is the European value-added distributor in the area of enterprise storage technology products, solutions and services.
Bell Microproducts Solutions markets and distributes an extensive portfolio of enterprise storage solutions from the world’s leading storage manufacturers a.o.’s Adic, Brocade, HDS, HP, IBM, Legato, Tivoli and VERITAS as well as its own BellStor and Rorke Data storage solutions.
Products are available at any level of integration, from components to subsystem assemblies and fully integrated, tested and certified SAN, NAS and enterprise storage solutions.
Bell Microproducts Solutions markets and distributes the storage solutions via a comprehensive network of value-added resellers (VAR’s), system integrators, service providers and original equipment manufactures (OEM’s) in all major European countries. Within Europe subsidiaries are located in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, The Netherlands (HQ) and the UK. Bell Microproducts Solutions is part of Bell Microproducts, Inc. (NASDAQ: BELM), the world’s largest Storage-centric value added IT distributors. (www.bellmicro.com)
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This release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements, which reflect the Company’s current views of future events and financial performance, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results or facts to differ materially from such statements for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to: the ability to successfully integrate the operations of recent acquisitions, industry conditions, changes in product supply, pricing, and customer demand, competition, other vagaries in the computer and electronic components markets, changes in relationships with key suppliers, foreign currency fluctuations and the other risks described from time-to-time in the Company’s reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission (including the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K). Investors should take such risks into account when making investment decisions. Shareholders and other readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. The company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements.
For more information, contact: Rorke Data, Inc., 7626 Golden Triangle Drive, Eden Prairie, MN
55344; 800/328-8147 or 952/829-0300; fax: 952/829-0988; website: www.rorke.com.
