Press Release

ExaGrid Announces Reseller Referral Program

Designed to help resellers offer Intelligent Disk-based Data Protection products with short training session, generous referral bonuses

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. November 30, 2005 - ExaGrid Systems, Inc., announced a new, innovative reseller referral program designed to help resellers quickly penetrate the rapidly growing Intelligent Disk-based Data Protection market.

Resellers can now offer ExaGrid® Intelligent Disk-based Data Protection, which works in conjunction with existing backup applications to provide cost effective, disk-based data protection. With ExaGrid, organizations can leverage technology investments while supplementing or replacing their tape libraries with a disk-based solution. ExaGrid provides data reduction through its unique byte-level delta technology, delivering a turn-key, plug-and-play solution that costs 50% to 80% less than the cost of SATA or ATA disk.

ExaGrid's new reseller referral program is targeted towards resellers seeking to offer disk-based data protection products to new or existing customers. With just a fifteen minute training session, reseller sales representatives can learn about ExaGrid's Intelligent Data Protection products and gain an understanding of where ExaGrid fits in the market. When the reseller identifies an opportunity, they simply pass the contact information to ExaGrid, who will log the referral and perform all selling and support activities. Resellers who refer successful sales leads to ExaGrid will receive a finder's fee of five to ten percent of the sale.

"In today's fast paced environment, resellers are stretched for time and it's difficult to take on new products and to prove whether those products will sell to our customers," said Charlie Haber of The Haber Group. "ExaGrid's new reseller referral program takes a low-level of involvement, and enables us to take a 'walk before you run' approach."

"As with all resellers, we are stretched for time and it's difficult for us to find the cycles to take on new vendors," said Mike Fanelli of TreTempo. "With the ExaGrid program we can bring new solutions to our customers and receive margin dollars, while minimizing the amount of time to ramp-up. Customers are looking to move to disk-based backup systems, and we're excited to be working with ExaGrid in this growing market."

"ExaGrid understands how busy resellers are and how much effort it takes to bring on a new vendor or product," said Josie Kaufmann, ExaGrid's Alliance Manager. "Our new reseller referral program takes virtually no time for the reseller but provides them margin if they find customers who want to move from tape-based data backup to disk-based data backup."

ExaGrid Referral Program Highlights

15-minute, Web-based ExaGrid phone introduction
Registration system to log all referrals with a confirmation email
5%, 7.5% or 10% referral fee depending upon the size of the opportunity

Referral Partner Information
Resellers interested in learning more about ExaGrid's partner referral program can go to http://www.exagrid.com/partners/partner_program.html. Once there, resellers are encouraged to fill out the simple reseller referral form and an ExaGrid partner program representative will contact the reseller directly.

About ExaGrid
ExaGrid Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of Intelligent Disk-based Data Protection Systems. ExaGrid® works in conjunction with existing backup applications to provide cost effective, disk-based data protection. With ExaGrid, organizations can leverage technology investments while supplementing or replacing their tape libraries with a disk-based solution.

Extremely cost effective, ExaGrid provides data reduction for each version through byte-level delta technology, which requires far less disk storage than traditional data protection solutions. Storing deltas for each version instead of storing full file copies reduces the amount of disk space needed to at least 20 to 1, and can be much higher depending upon retention periods. ExaGrid delivers a turn-key, plug-and-play solution at 50% to 80% less than the cost of SATA or ATA disk.

With ExaGrid, organizations can replace onsite tape backups with a disk-based solution and still retain or supplement their existing offsite tape strategy.

The company is located in Westborough, Massachusetts, and is privately held with funding from top-tier investors Highland Capital Partners and Sigma Partners. ExaGrid Systems is located in Westborough, Massachusetts. For more information, call 800-868-6985 or visit us online at www.exagrid.com.

2000 West Park Drive, Suite 110
Westborough, MA 01581
508-898-2872

For additional information contact:
Wayne St. Amand
ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
(508) 898-2872 ext. 286
wstamand@exagrid.com