Milpitas, CA and Bingen,
Germany (March 26, 2001) - DISC®, Inc. (NASDAQ: DCSR), a manufacturer
of automated library solutions for enterprise storage, announced today
a strategic alliance with NSM Storage of Bingen, Germany, a leading provider
of CD and DVD storage libraries. Under the new agreement, NSM Storage
will resell DISC's automated storage libraries to its worldwide customer
base outside North America. The agreement includes Disc's D20, D40, D150,
D245, D280, D525 and D1050, which range in capacity from 182GB to over
9TB of storage.
"NSM and DISC make outstanding partners, with both companies having
been successful in their own respective markets," stated Wilfried
Beckmann, Managing Director of NSM Storage. "This strategic alliance
enables NSM Storage to add a series of sophisticated and highly reliable
MO jukeboxes to its CD/DVD-based storage products, thereby enhancing NSM
Storage's customer and market potential. DISC products will help make
NSM Storage even stronger."
"This move extends the successful partnership which has existed
between DISC and NSM in the U.S. market, where DISC has resold the NSM
line of CD and DVD libraries since April of 2000," stated Richard
Ellis, DISC President and CEO. "Both NSM and DISC are committed to
the same high level of quality and to providing users with the best possible
solutions for their storage requirements. The partnership with NSM also
gives DISC a presence in the European Community that we have not previously
had. This presence will allow us to compete in markets that were not previously
available to DISC."
The strategic alliance will allow DISC and NSM to extend their product
offerings with a complete line of products for storage applications based
on the most reliable storage technologies ever built. Disc's optical library
will be on display at NSM Storage's stand at Cebit 2001 from 22-28 March
(stand A37, Hall 12).
About DISC:
Established in 1986, DISC, INC., a manufacturer of automated solutions
for enterprise storage, provides companies with nearline storage devices
that add capacity to networks for a fraction of the cost of RAID. DISC
storage solutions range in capacity from 180 GB to 9.5 TB and are designed
for high performance and maximum reliability. Headquartered in Milpitas,
CA, DISC, Inc. can be found on the World Wide Web at www.disc-storage.com.
Sales and engineering offices are located in Northern California, Dallas,
Chicago, Boston, Phoenix, Washington D.C. and the United Kingdom. DISC,
Inc. can be reached by calling (800) 944-3472 or (408) 934-7000 or by
e-mail at sales@disc-storage.com.
About NSM:
NSM Storage GmbH is a subsidiary of PSi Printer Systems international
GmbH. It was founded in 1994 as a subsidiary of NSM AG and, up until its
takeover by PSi in November 1999, went under the name of NSM Jukebox GmbH.
Subsidiaries in the US and the U.K. and representatives in 40 further
countries gives users access to a worldwide sales, service and support
network.
NSM Storage is a pioneer in the development of jukebox technologies and
for many years has played a leading role in the field of jukebox systems
for optical data media which can be used wherever large quantities of
data need to be managed, archived and accessed. These applications include
libraries (provision of non-changeable data), archiving (saving onto non-rewritable
media), storage (storage and provision of data on rewritable media) and
backup.
NSM Storage's customers include numerous banks, local authorities and
insurance companies as well as well-known businesses from a whole range
of industries. Further information can be found at the company's website
at http://www.nsmstorage.de.
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DISC is a registered trademark. Any other product names are trademarks
or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Statements made in this news release are forward looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainties. These forward looking statements include
statements relating to our product leadership, the integration of our
products with NSM Storage's products, the potential market for our products,
improving sales and marketing efforts, new business development and obtaining
new accounts, rapid growth of the storage market and increasing market
share. As discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ending December 31, 1999 and the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for
the first, second and third quarters of fiscal 2000, the Company's future
operating results are uncertain and may be impacted by the following risks
and uncertainties, among others: market acceptance of our products, our
ability to keep pace with technological innovation and competitive developments,
our ability to respond to changes in the data storage market, our ability
to raise future capital which we anticipate will be required to finance
our operations, the loss of key personnel, our history of losses, the
loss of customers or distributors and increased competition and pricing
pressure. |