Zzyzx Mission Statement

        The Zzyzx mission is to provide customers with leading-edge technologies and innovative solutions that meet or exceed individual needs. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality components available, while offering competitive pricing and the greatest benefit to our customers and the industries we serve.

        We are committed to establishing and growing true and solid partnering relationships with technology industry leaders in order to provide our customers with leading-edge technologies and innovative solutions, as well as multiple levels of support from both our manufacturing partners and ourselves. We will constantly strive to provide our customers with a technically trained support staff that includes our sales force, technical support, customer service and administrative staff. This commitment also extends to providing our staff with the necessary tools and technology to make ease of use, ease of support, and ease of product upgrade a requirement.

        Zzyzx values its loyal employees and pledges to provide these employees with a safe, quality environment where opportunity, individual growth, education and good health are encouraged.

        We are obligated to create an ethical business environment and provide a product offering which meets or exceeds pre-determined corporate goals, sustains acceptable profits, and fosters continuous growth in order to provide an appropriate return for the investors of our firm.

The Zzyzx Philosophy

        Zzyzx (pronounced ZEE-ZIX) is committed to providing customers with innovative products and services, using leading-edge technology to meet or exceed their requirements. This includes providing high-quality components, competitive pricing and unparalleled customer support that distinguishes Zzyzx from its competitors.

        The company has a firm commitment to building high-availability, fault tolerant storage solutions. In addition, Zzyzx focuses on developing solid partner relationships with technology industry leaders such as Qualstar, Tatung, Quantum, CMD, Veritas, Legato and others in order to provide customers with the most advanced, sophisticated solutions, as well as multiple levels of customer support. This support is enhanced by the development and training of a dedicated team in sales, technical support, customer service and administration. This commitment also extends to providing Zzyzx personnel with the necessary tools and technology to make ease of use, ease of support and product upgrades a Zzyzx requirement.

Corporate Overview

        Founded in 1991 and privately held, Zzyzx continues with its foundation in place - a strong commitment to the customer. By offering its customers an unparalleled level of technical support and customer service, while also providing the latest technology and focusing on the highest quality hardware and storage solutions, Zzyzx has clearly set itself apart from the competition. By listening to customers and delivering a high level of customer satisfaction and loyalty to the marketplace, Zzyzx has enjoyed extraordinary growth.

        The company's upward growth curve is escalating and it is forecasting a substantial increase in sales for 1999. Since enhancing its management team and ownership structure, Zzyzx has strengthened its market position and significantly grown in both gross profits and overall profitability to record levels.

        Zzyzx corporate headquarters are in San Diego, where sales and marketing, technical support, customer service, finance and engineering are located. The company operates satellite sales offices in Dallas, Boston, San Jose, Washington D.C. and Orange County, CA.

Zzyzx Product Offerings

        The Zzyzx storage solutions are platform independent with a focus on high end UNIX and NT markets. These products include SCSI-based disk drive subsystems in custom configurations, SCSI-based tape drive and tape robotic library systems, as well as the Zzyzx line of SCSI and Fibre Channel/hardware-based disk drive RAID solutions. Further, Zzyzx provides industry leading Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions. The company's wide range of tape storage solutions includes Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT), Digital Linear Tape (DLT), Digital Data Storage (DDS) and the upcoming SUPER DLT and Linear Tape-Open (LTO). In addition, the company offers a range of software solutions including Legato's industry-leading Enterprise Backup Software for UNIX and NT as well as a range of SunSoft products, including programming languages and Internet/intranet packages.

        The Zzyzx Power RAID II, Power RAIDLT and RocketRAID are the widely recognized industry leaders in SCSI-based hardware. The performance-focused and competitive priced Zzyzx RAID systems are custom configured, installed and supported and include custom configuration software - creating total, seamless solutions.

        Zzyzx is the nation's leading reseller of award-winning SPARC workstations which are compatible with the Sun Microsystems line of SPARC-based desktop workstations and offer features and performance that are equal to or better than the line of Sun workstations. In addition, Zzxyx adds value to the resale of these products by adding hardware solutions internally and externally. The company provides each customer with a custom integrated solution, delivered and sustained by a customer-driven support and technical staff that is unmatched in the industry.

        Zzyzx also resells a variety of other hardware peripherals for complete product offerings, including memory upgrades for workstations, optical storage products, printers and scanners, controllers and networking equipment and communications equipment.

Key Markets

        The markets Zzyzx serves are continually evolving and, because of the company's unique ability to custom fit its products to virtually any computing environment requirement, are extremely wide ranging. Specific target segments include Fortune 500 and high-technology firms; start-up companies; local, state and federal governments; schools and universities; medical institutions; and research facilities.

        Zzyzx markets its products through an aggressive direct sales strategy. Customers include Conoco Oil, Cigna FIS, Stanford University, Hughes Aircraft, the National Institute of Health, the Department of Defense, National Semiconductor and many other prominent organizations.