ECCS Announces $400,000 Order for the U.S. Air Force

Business Wire, April 4, 2001

Business Editors/Hi Tech Writers

TINTON FALLS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2001

ECCS today announced that it has received orders for its high performance fault tolerant storage products from Federal Integrators for the United States Air Force that totals in excess of $400,000.

ECCS products include many unique features as compared to its larger competitors in the storage market. ECCS products are open system based and available for direct attached (DAS), network attached (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN). ECCS specializes in designing, architecting, supporting, managing, and customizing fault tolerant data storage systems for the enterprise, including imaging and e-commerce business solutions.

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.