ECCS Receives U.S. Army Orders Totaling $1.2 Million

Business Wire, April 3, 2001

Business Editors

TINTON FALLS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 2001

ECCS Inc. (NASDAQ: ECCS) today reported that it has received orders from Federal Integrators for the United States Army for its fault tolerant storage products, which totals in excess of $1.2 million for an imaging storage application. This order is expected to ship and be included in revenue within the 2nd Quarter 2001. (ECCS follows a calendar fiscal year.)

ECCS products continue to offer the high performance and fault tolerance of name branded products, along with greater flexibility to support data storage needs for direct attached, network attached, and storage area networks for significant savings when compared to its larger competitors.

About ECCS, Inc.

ECCS, Inc., an innovative high-technology company serves e-commerce, major corporate, government, and other customers by supplying fault-tolerant systems and software that store, protect, and manage data in complex networks with greater ease and cost savings. ECCS data storage systems - including Synchronix(TM)2000, Synchronix 2500, Synchronix 3000, Synchronix SAN and the Synchronection(TM) 2 systems, and the Raven(TM) systems are modular units that can be tailored and stacked to meet customer's specific and expanding data storage requirements.

ECCS competes against large corporations including EMC (NYSE:EMC), Network Appliance (NASDAQ:NTAP), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW) and Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 storage systems. Trademarks mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

This release contains forward-looking statements under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could vary materially. Factors that could cause actual results to vary materially include, but are not limited to: component quality and availability, changes in business conditions, changes in ECCS' sales strategy and product development plans, changes in the data storage or network marketplace, competition between ECCS and other companies that may be entering the data storage host/network attached markets, competitive pricing pressures, continued market acceptance of ECCS' open systems products, delays in the development of new technology, changes in customer buying patterns, one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time-to-time in ECCS' filings at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.