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Aristos Logic Appoints Joe Colgate as Vice President of Sales
Storage Industry Veteran to Head Sales Organization at Aristos Logic

Foothill Ranch, California - May 20, 2002 -Aristos Logic, the industry leader in Intelligent Storage Processors, announced today that Joe Colgate has been named the Vice President of World Wide Sales, reporting directly to Aristos Logic CEO, Anil Gupta. Colgate brings over 24 years of industry experience to Aristos Logic, with 13 of those as a senior sales executive with companies such as Vixel, Arcxel and StorageTek.

"Aristos Logic is very pleased to add an individual of Joe's caliber to the Aristos management team," said Anil Gupta, CEO of Aristos Logic. "Joe is a seasoned sales executive, and he brings with him a wealth of experience with storage OEM customers and end users. We look forward to building a strong customer base under his leadership," added Gupta.

"This is an exciting time to be joining Aristos Logic. We are delivering a technology that brings unprecedented performance and manageability to networked storage," commented Colgate. "OEMs that are developing traditional RAID storage as well as storage virtualization solutions are highly interested in deploying our technology. I look forward to working with these customers and further expanding business opportunities for Aristos Logic," continued Colgate.

As Vice President of Sales, Joe Colgate will be responsible for building and expanding customer base and creating a sales infrastructure for future growth. Most recently, he held the position of Vice President of Sales, Americas, at Vixel Corporation where he led the company's transition to embedded switch products and secured key OEM business. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Arcxel Corporation, a start-up that was later acquired by Vixel. Colgate also spent 18 years at StorageTek, where he rose through the ranks and became Vice President of Sales for Western Region, consistently delivering to revenue targets.

Headquartered in Foothill Ranch, California, Aristos Logic is a leading developer of innovative, paradigm changing silicon solutions for the networked storage market. Aristos Logic is the inventor of the Intelligent Storage Processor, a technology designed to bring a whole new level of performance, manageability, flexibility and scalability to networked storage. Founded in February 2000, Aristos is staffed by industry professionals with extensive experience in System on Chip (SoC) design, hard disk drives, networked storage, RAID controllers, networking, storage management and I/O interface technologies. For further information, please visit our Web site at www.aristoslogic.com.

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Aristos Logic Corporation
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