INFORTREND RAID STORAGE NOW AVAILABLE IN GERMANY THROUGH BELL MICROPRODUCTS

Basingstoke,UK and Dreieich Germany - October 12, 2004 – Infortrend Europe Ltd, the RAID storage expert, today announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Bell Microproducts in Germany. Infortrend will now provide direct support to Bell Microproducts for distribution of their range of cost-effective, enterprise-performance EonStor™ storage solutions throughout Germany.

Bell Microproducts already have distribution agreements with Infortrend in many parts of the world. This new partnership complements Infortrend’s current distribution strategy in Germany to increase the focus in the heart of the European market. Infortrend will allocate sales and technical resources to ensure that Bell Microproducts is fully equipped to serve their customers.

“Infortrend have been working with Bell Microproducts for many years and together we have developed an excellent track record of providing innovative RAID storage solutions to meet customer needs,” stated Tony Perng, Managing Director for Infortrend Europe. “We are pleased to strengthen our relationship with a direct agreement in Germany to extend this partnership across Europe,” Perng added.

“Infortrend offer networked storage solutions with feature-rich designs that are affordable for small to medium enterprises,” said Patrick Eichstädt, Country Manager for Bell Microproducts in Germany. “The addition of Infortrend’s RAID solutions is an excellent extension to our external storage product portfolio providing greater choice to our customers”.

About Bell Microproducts

Bell Microproducts is an international, value-added provider of a wide range of high-technology products, solutions, and services to the industrial and commercial markets. The company is an industry-recognized specialist in storage products and is one of the world's largest storage-centric value-added distributors with offices in the Americas and Europe. More information can be found in the company's SEC filings, or by visiting the Bell Microproducts Web site at www.bellmicro.com.

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About Infortrend

Focused on RAID storage technology since its founding in 1992, Infortrend designs, manufactures and markets cross-platform, high performance RAID storage solutions. The company specializes in firmware, driver, ASIC design and development of RAID controllers and subsystems that are storage area network (SAN) ready, and support Fibre Channel, SCSI, ATA and SATA interfaces. Designed to be flexible, cost-effective and feature-rich, Infortrend products are available through a worldwide network of OEMs, distributors, and storage integrators for high availability storage applications and distributors. Infortrend is traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (Taiex), ticker number 2495 and is on the web at www.infortrend.com.

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