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SBE’s PyX iSCSI software selected for integration into IP SAN appliances

SAN JOSE, CA – February  9, 2006 – Genstor Systems, Inc. customized solution provider for Server, Storage, Clusters, PC/Workstation, OEM Appliance and High Performance Computing and High Availability needs has started offering SBE’s PyX iSCSI software as an offering for integration into IP SAN. SBE Inc., (NASDAQ: SBEI), a leading provider of high-performance IP-based networking solutions for next-generation storage and communications systems, today announced that Genstor Systems, has been chosen to license and integrate SBE’s PyX iSCSI target software into their Internet Protocol (IP) based storage area network (SAN) systems.

Genstor Systems is utilizing SBE’s iSCSI solutions into its series of Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron based IP SAN storage servers. Specializing in the customization of systems that suit the unique requirements of specific market sectors, the Genstor team has served fortune 500 corporations, small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs), educational institutions, and the government.

 “Given the advanced networking features and superior performance of SBE’s iSCSI target software, we’ve decided to proactively offer our customers iSCSI solutions based around it,” remarked Kedar Rajadnya, Vice President of Business Development at Genstor Systems. “We expect that incorporating SBE’s reliable, feature-rich iSCSI stack will significantly enhance the iSCSI functionality and performance available with our storage servers. Our customers will also have the added benefit of downloading SBE’s highly stable open source initiator to utilize with our target offerings.”

“We look forward to working closely with Genstor Systems during the integration, testing, and launch of their next generation IP SAN appliances,” commented Nelson Abal, Vice President of Sales at SBE. “These wins further support and advance the traction that our innovative iSCSI software solutions are gaining in the marketplace. We are pleased to see that our sales efforts to seed the market over the past six to eight months is beginning to show returns,” continued Abal.

PyX iSCSI Protocol Stack
The advanced features designed into the architecture of the PyX iSCSI protocol stack enables efficient and cost-effective storage transport by optimizing bandwidth usage, enabling unlimited storage to be attached to each target device, and leveraging existing network technologies. The iSCSI technology, fully compliant with the IETF RFC 3270 standard, enables an enterprise-level IP storage platform that transports data to and from networked storage with full error recovery (ERL2), automatic load balancing, and multi-path capabilities previously available only in costly Fibre Channel architectures. Because of the ubiquity of IP networks, iSCSI transmits data from any storage (SATA/SAS/SCSI, Fibre Channel/etc.) over LANs, WANs, or the Internet and enables location independent data storage and retrieval.

About Genstor Systems, Inc.: Genstor provides customized solutions for your Server, Storage, Clusters, PC/Workstation, OEM Appliance and High Performance Computing and High Availability needs. Genstor specializes in customizing hardware around the OS and applications of your choice. The Genstor team is well versed with Linux (Redhat, Fedora, Debian etc.), BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD etc.), Microsoft, x86 Solaris, JDS and other open source Operating Systems. We excel at providing quality hardware at competitive prices. Genstor team has served fortune 500 Corporations, SMB, Educational institutions, and the Government. We customize systems and solutions based on the requirement of each market.

Contact : Ph: 408-383-0120 Email: mktg@genstor.com

About SBE
SBE designs and provides IP-based networking solutions for an extensive range of applied computing applications. SBE delivers a portfolio of scalable, standards-based hardware and software products, including iSCSI and VoIP, designed to enable optimal performance and rapid deployment across a wide range of next generation communications and storage systems. Based in San Ramon, California, SBE is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: SBEI) with products sold worldwide through direct sales, OEMs and system integration partners.  For additional information, please visit www.sbei.com.

SBE and the SBE logo are registered trademarks of SBE, Inc. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

San Diego, California – Dec 8, 2005 — Genstor Systems, Inc. along with its strategic partner BSDMall attended the 19th LISA ‘05 (Large Installation System Administration Conference) held at San Diego, CA from December 4-8.
The exhibit was a great success and visitors were impressed with the variety of offerings from Genstor and BSDMall for their Servers, Storage, OEM Appliance and packaged Open Source OS offerings.

The hardware offerings from Genstor attracted very good response from the corporate and small to mid size companies because of the flexibility and customizing capability (Linux, BSD, Solaris, MS etc.) of Genstor team and to provide industry standard quality solutions as per the budget and technical needs of their customers. In addition to Servers Genstor’s Storage and custom OEM Appliances also attracted a big response from most system Administrators.

“Genstor Systems is committed to provide top of the line customized solutions to BSD and Linux community for their Server, Storage and Appliance needs. We are 100% committed to serve this community pro-actively and are glad to have partners like BSDMall. This will help the growth of Open Source movement,” said Raj Chahal – Vice President, Product Marketing of Genstor Systems.

BSDMall’s offerings of the current releases of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD also attracted the Open Source community. Genstor will be providing *BSD customized solutions to the community as one of the BSDMall’s preferred Hardware vendor.

Contact : Ph: 408-383-0120 Email: mktg@genstor.com

About BSDMall :
The BSDMall is dedicated to the support and expansion of the BSD community which includes Darwin, Dragonfly, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and those that are yet to evolve. The BSDMall supplies each BSD OS via a subscription list. In addition to the software and embroidered clothes distribution, the BSDMall will provide access to many BSD products not available anywhere else. The BSDMall will also be the source of new technology and work with vendors to migrate the technology to BSD operating systems.

Contact: Email: sales@bsdmall.com

Genstor Systems, Inc. has entered into Technology License Distribution Agreement, Java System Software Masters Terms and StarOffice/StarSuite Software OEM License and Distribution Agreement with Sun Microsystems. In addition to building X86 Solaris based servers, Genstor Systems now offers Sun's software portfolio including the Sun Java System Software products; Sun's Java Desktop System; Solaris (Sun's Unix operating system offering) for X86 platforms; and its entire suite of software application development tools. This includes Sun's Java System software products, such as the Sun Java System Web, Application, Directory, Portal and Messaging Server software for identity management, portal, messaging and other advanced web services; in addition to Java Desktop System and Sun's complete line of software application development tools. Through Sun’s expanded relationship, Genstor Systems will now be qualified to sell and deliver the most of Sun software portfolio to their customers, and help Sun expand its reach into the OEM market'.