Press Release

Idealstor Signs Distribution Agreement in Australia

Websecure Technologies is Appointed Premier Distributor of Idealstor Disk to Disk Storage System for Australia

Websecure Expands its Security Services for Corporate Backup Environments by Becoming a Premier Reseller and Distributor of Idealstor Products in Australia

Sydney, AU September 9. 2004 – Websecure, a leading Australian IT security specialist, today announced that they have been appointed as the premier Australian Distributor for Idealstor?, the inventor of Storage Hardware using Removable IDE ATA Disk for any size storage environment.
Idealstor products were released in the United States in 2002 and have seen rapid growth in both sales and market share in the storage marketplace. Idealstor initially decided to focus on the domestic market so that they could fully develop their technology and increase the amount of vertical specific clients. Having developed a successful Value Added Reseller (VAR) Channel model in the US, Idealstor has recently begun to focus its efforts on the Global Marketplace. Idealstor has successfully transferred their domestic sales model to the United Kingdom through the development of a distributor and VAR Channel for the UK. Australia becomes the next international market that Idealstor has committed to developing and has decided to accomplish this through its new alliance with Websecure.

“Websecure provides Idealstor immediate entry into the tech savvy Australian market. We have already discovered that Australia is willing to embrace our technology as Websecure has successfully tested the product with a few key end user accounts.” said Ben Ginster, Channel Marketing Manager for Idealstor. “With the momentum increasing and the word getting out about these successful installs, we have decided to team up with the professionals at Websecure to develop not only end user business, but also to focus on the VAR market in Australia. This provides us with the luxury of having in country sales and technical staff as well as local express exchange and warranty repairs. We view this as the launching point for other new business in the Pacific and we feel that with Websecure, we have found the perfect partner to accomplish this task.

“Data Storage, retrieval and recovery is a very real issue for our customers as the amount of data increases constantly and the legal requirements to keep all corporate documentation (including email) threatens” says Lisa Powell, Marketing Manager, Websecure. “We see our customers struggle daily with the time it takes to complete their systems backup, not to mention the sheer weight of time and effort required should system recovery be required. We believe that Idealstor D2D appliance can significantly reduce both storage & retrieval costs as well as dramatically reduce the amount of time required for systems backup. This relationship provides WebSecure with a truly innovative product to take to the Australian market. www.websecure.com.au


Idealstor has revolutionized the storage industry through the development of its patent pending storage technology. Idealstor – Ejectable Disk to Disk Backup Appliance allows clients the flexibility of offsite data storage combined with the backup and restore speeds provided by Disks. IdealStor is a quantum leap forward in performance and backup and perhaps more importantly in data restore time. www.idealstor.com


About WebSecure Technologies
WebSecure Technologies is a specialist security provider that draws together world class teams, products and solutions in the emerging and technically challenging area of e-business security

About Idealstor
Established in 2002, Idealstor is the leading manufacture of ejectable Disk to Disk storage solutions. Idealstor offers a Disk to Disk backup platform that for the first time outperforms tape drives and libraries in performance, reliability, scalability, ease of use and functionality. Idealstor can be easily deployed and is compatible with all existing major backup software. We take away the headaches, pain and expenses normally associated with tape based backup systems and offer you peace of mind.

Press Contacts:

Jyotsna Arora
Idealstor USA
301-947-8737
jarora@idealstor.com


Lisa Powell
WebSecure
(612) 8752 7100
lpowell@websecure.com.au