KOMunity program offers business incentives and focuses on
technology, solutions and channel partnerships

Ottawa, ON Canada – August 25, 2005

KOM Networks, Inc., a global leader in Compliance, Archiving and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions, today introduced enhancements to its KOMunity Partner Program. The program is a close network of partners, pooling their resources and working together to provide exceptional products, solutions and services. KOMunity focuses on offering comprehensive solutions through partnerships with leading technology vendors, solutions providers and channel partners including distributors and resellers.

"The significant improvement of our KOMunity Partner Program is a further indication of our continued commitment to the evolving needs and requirements of our partners and clients," said Dr. Taher Shaath, Chief Executive Officer, KOM Networks . "The program's new format, expanded features and benefits allows KOM Networks to provide better, more focused support to a broader base of partners and the diverse clients they serve."

KOM Networks has been an innovator of storage management software since 1983. KOMworx, KOM Networks' industry leading software, provides policy-based, dynamically managed storage solutions that help a wide range of organizations archive and protect digital assets across multiple storage devices and operating platforms. KOMworx innovative software provides Hard Disk Fixed Content Archiving (e-WORM), e-WORM++ (which combines UDO, WORM permanence with high performance disk storage), ILM, NAS aggregation and dynamic capacity management. KOMunity program allows partners to leverage KOM Networks storage management products in delivering compliant, efficient and secure solutions, protecting, preserving and securing customer's digital assets.

KOMunity Partners can be categorized in three categories —Technology Alliance, Solution Provider and Channel Partners.

• KOMunity Technology Alliance Program features global software and hardware technology companies that collaborate with KOM Networks to develop best of breed storage solutions.
• KOMunity Solution Provider Partners are system integrators and OEMs that integrate our software solutions with their own products and services to provide end-to-end solutions globally.
• KOMunity Channel Partners are distributors and resellers delivering solutions by integrating industry standard storage hardware with KOM Networks products to offer complete solutions.

KOMunity is a unified partner-focused program providing dedicated sales, marketing and technology support to our partners. The KOMunity Teamwork approach provides our partners with the opportunity to interact in a collaborative environment to develop, deploy and deliver storage management solutions. Regardless of the business model, KOMunity is targeted towards providing partners access to the necessary tools and resources ensuring business's success.

"We are very excited in joining the KOMunity Partner program and look forward to a mutually successful and prosperous relationship," said Arsenio Batoy, President of Optical Laser, a national solutions value added distributor. "Today, we see across the board demand within our IT infrastructure VARs and document imaging integrators for competitively-priced, capacity-flexible, hard-disk based storage management solutions that meet regulatory compliance requirements. There's plenty of excitement in the channel when they hear that the eWORM feature in KOMworx Governance can allow their user's existing disk-based IT assets as well as new proposed systems meet regulatory compliance requirements for storage. For tomorrow, we like what we see in the KOM Networks product roadmap and know that our resellers will be equally excited about new technologies in the pipe," he added.

About KOM Networks

KOM Networks is a world leading provider of flexible, secure data archiving and storage management software. Over 10,000 of the world's leading corporations have recognized KOM Networks as the most logical, unobtrusive and secure way to store, access and protect their data. KOM is enabling enterprises large and small a cost effective way to improve productivity and meet compliance requirements without altering their network infrastructure or daily business routines. The industry pioneer holds vital industry patents for electronic file lifecycle management, virtual file management and eWORM fixed content hard disk archiving. Find out how KOM Networks can help you implement a comprehensive information lifecycle solution to optimize your existing storage environment and meet your compliance requirements.

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