Medical Imaging Thrives With Rorke Data And StorageTek
Alliance Extends Access to HIS/RIS Community

Through this alliance, StorageTek, the storage services and solutions expert, is extending its product offerings to a wider customer base within the Picture Archival Communications Systems (PACS), HIS, and RIS industry segments of the health care market. Rorke Data, which works with health care IT organizations to integrate departmental infrastructure with PACS, will now be able to provide health care organizations with a centralized data storage solution using StorageTek products. This relationship with Rorke Data underscores StorageTek’s commitment to the health care community by offering storage solutions from a trusted company that has first-hand knowledge of the IT challenges facing health care organizations.

“As the medical community experiences a convergence of IT systems and PACS, there is a growing need for health care professionals to have access to shared archives of patient information related to imaging records, pathology reports and pharmaceutical information. To do this, they need a centralized and integrated IT infrastructure,” said Bob Koecheler, vice president of Global Partners, StorageTek. “Rorke Data’s strong medical imaging and HIS background as a systems integrator and its storage-centric focus makes them ideal to work with StorageTek in delivering comprehensive IT solutions that meet a health care organizations’ PACS, HIPAA or other IT requirements.”

“Health care providers are consolidating islands of data for easy access across their networks. This alliance with StorageTek enables us to provide them with a comprehensive solution for data storage and retrieval,” said Joe Rorke, vice president of Marketing, Rorke Data. “We are pleased to help providers address their critical IT issues so they can focus on patient care.”

The alliance, currently active in the U.S., is expected to expand globally later this year.

About StorageTek
StorageTek (Storage Technology Corp., NYSE:STK), a $2 billion worldwide company with headquarters in Louisville, Colo., delivers a broad range of storage solutions that are easy to manage, that integrate well with existing infrastructures, and that allow universal access to data across servers, media types and networks. StorageTek provides practical and safe storage solutions in disk, networking, tape and tape automation, and services. StorageTek is a voting member of the SNIA. For more information, see http://www.storagetek.com/, or call 1.800.786.7835

TRADEMARKS: StorageTek is a registered trademark of Storage Technology Corp. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners

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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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.

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