Hie Electronics' New Green Data Storage Product Reduces Storage Footprint by 75 Percent

Business Wire, April 14, 2008

DALLAS -- Hie Electronics, Inc. announces the sale of its TeraStack([R]) Solution product to HKS, Inc., a top-three international architecture and engineering firm. The TeraStack([R]) Solution is a leading green tech data processing and storage product. Nationwide there is a focus on decreasing IT data center electric power use. The EPA recently reported that 2 percent of our electric grid is consumed annually by data centers. The TeraStack([R]) Solution significantly reduces environmental requirements of data centers and for all data storage users.

"As a leading designer of green architecture, addressing our own data storage requirement with a green solution was the way to go," said Rod Lanham, AIA, vice president/director of IT, HKS, Inc. "The physical footprint of the TeraStack Solution is only 1/4 rack in size and requires the same amount of electricity as a personal computer - eliminating the space, power and hard disk drive recycling requirements typical of major data storage arrays."

"The social, environmental and economic impact of our highly green product is significant. The TeraStack Solution extends and expands data storage for users with long-term and large data object size storage demands," said Pat Humm, CEO of Hie Electronics.

The product does not require a dedicated data storage room or traditional RAID back-up. The TeraStack([R]) Solution offers 50 terabytes (extendable) of online, near line and offline storage using Blu-ray discs in a structured optical solution. The scalability (into multiple petabytes) of the TeraStack([R]) Solution provides for rapidly expanding data storage and allows ample room for future application growth.

About Hie Electronics

Hie Electronics manufactures and sells its TeraStack([R]) Solution, a 50-terabyte optical data storage device useable in a variety of applications where exponential storage is required, to commercial users and government agencies for security applications, medical imaging and healthcare data and for other data retention requirements. See www.hie-electronics.com.

About HKS

HKS, Inc. is a leading architectural design firm ranked among the top-three architectural/engineering firms, according to Building Design & Construction magazine. Since its founding in 1939, HKS has completed construction projects totaling more than $45 billion in more than 900 cities located in 46 states, the District of Columbia, and 54 foreign countries. Headquartered in Dallas, the firm has 23 worldwide offices. See www.hksinc.com.