NovaStor Enters Into Distribution Agreement With En Pointe

NovaStor, a leading provider of software solutions for data availability and protection, announced today a strategic partner agreement with En Pointe Technologies, Sales Inc., a national technology solutions provider that supplies IT products and services. The agreement enables NovaStor to significantly expand its reach to more mid-market and enterprise accounts, government agencies, and educational institutions nationwide, featuring its comprehensive Workstation, Network and Online backup solutions through En Pointe.

NovaStor is a leading provider of software for data protection and availability, including world-class online backup solutions, with a proven track record of innovative solutions for over two decades.

"We're excited to be offering NovaStor data protection and disaster recovery products," said Doug Williams, Director of Marketing at En Pointe. "Our primary objective is to provide the best value in business solutions and services. We are exceptionally pleased to be able to offer NovaStor's award-winning data protection solutions to our commercial, government and education customers."

"The expansion of the NovaStor and En Pointe relationship provides customers with the power of choice," stated Mike Andrews, Managing Director and EVP of Worldwide Sales at NovaStor. "Leveraging En Pointe's expertise and established customer base, NovaStor can continue to provide best-of-class technology to all sized organizations, meeting their data protection needs."

NovaStor products are available through En Pointe immediately.

About En Pointe Technologies, Inc.

En Pointe Technologies, Inc. provides the information technology marketplace, including mid-market and enterprise accounts, government agencies, and educational institutions nationwide, with computer hardware, software, information security, and managed and professional services. En Pointe has the flexibility to customize information technology services to fulfill the unique needs of each of its customers.

En Pointe employs SAP, Clarify(TM), and AccessPointe(TM) (an e-procurement application), proven and dependable software applications, to support its broad customer base. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Los Angeles, En Pointe maintains an ISO 9001:2000 compliant configuration center in San Bernardino County, California and is well represented in leading national markets throughout the United States. En Pointe has the experience and the technology to help organizations simplify the management of their information technology infrastructure.

About NovaStor

NovaStor ( www.novastor.com ) is a leading, international provider of software solutions for data availability and protection. NovaStor provides software and services for the backup, restore and retention of business-critical data which together cover a wide application area -- ranging from home, mobile users, SMB users, all the way through Enterprise users, globally. NovaStor's cost-effective solutions are platform- and hardware-independent and ensure that optimal technological and economical use is gained from the customers' existing and future IT environments.

NovaStor is headquartered in Switzerland (Rotkreuz), has offices in Germany (Hamburg) and the USA (Simi Valley), and is represented in numerous other countries through partnerships.

For Further Information: NovaStor Mike Andrews Tel.: 805 579 6700 Fax: 805 579 6710 E-Mail: Email Contact www.novastor.com