WHO IS JES.

 JES Hardware Solutions has been in business for a period of ten years. During this time JES has become the premier provider of NAS solutions. JES got it start in the CD ROM NAS business some 10 years ago and has become involved in NAS magnetic technology since then. We are not usually in print media because we believe in the Internet, where all of our customers go to buy products. Case in point you found us, because we are all over the Internet. Here then is a brief history of JES and its products.

 CD ROM NAS JES started designing CD ROM NAS systems back in 1989 with a company called Microtest. Dell computers got wind of what JES was up to and signed them on a their sole provider of this technology for their educational division at Dell. Since then JES has formed many strategic partnerships with various manufactures of CD ROM NAS technology, including Axis Communications, Allion and other companies who have long since removed themselves from the marketplace. JES now offers the latest in CD ROM/DVD technology with its old partner Microtest. The Lightning CD and Tornado CD products are selling well at JES’s prime distributor Ingram Micro.

 NAS a brief history on the beginning of an industry. JES was involved in the concept of NAS since its beginnings. JES at one time was working hand in hand with Network Power and Light (NPL) a division of Mylex. Mylex came out with a product called Autonet. This was an I960 product (we can talk about I960 later) and was wholly underpowered, its firmware was a little shaky, but with the help of JES it was improved. The Snap server then came on the scene and it spelled the end for NPL as the Snap server was just as fast and a whole lot cheaper. NPL had depended on the I960 RISC chip and it do not come thru. JES was displeased with the Snap Server because basically it was a toy and not to be taken seriously. The Snap server was a hack product developed from another NAS company that was acquired by Meridian Data, then Meridian was acquired by Quantum. You have to give them credit they sold a lot of them, but JES still believes it gave NAS a bad name.   We then started working with Creative Design Solutions (CDS). They had a product called CDS 300, this was a tiny controller that gave off way too much heat. We tried to work with the CDS 300 and had a few successful products with it namely the NET Raptor. During the 90’s when everybody had a Billion dollars, CDS was acquired by Maxstor. They discontinued the CDS300 and went the IDE route like the Snap. JES was once again without a NAS controller. Our old friend Microtest came out with a product called Disczerver, we looked at and decided that it was a great product. This product was great because we could compete with Snap server on lower level and blow it out of the water and also offer a fine SCSI based product  to compete with Network Appliance at 1/3 the cost. JES now offers a complete line of NAS IDE RAID and NAS SCSI RAID products on a stable platform. If you have never herd of JES it is because Quantum and Maxstor have a great deal more money than we do, but we are certainly more experienced in NAS than they are, Hewlett Packard and all of the other companies coming out with what they think NAS should be.

 RAID and why you should get your monies worth.  Some of the larger RAID companies, take their time changing to newer technologies. Compaq for example is still using Ultra drives and not 160. Customers come to us because we can change to the newer technologies faster than some of the other RAID companies. We always offer the latest in RAID technology. That is why customers like NASA and others call us when they need high speed modern RAID. Our enclosures are of the finest quality and design, why because we suggest changes to the enclosure manufactures and follow closely their development of newer ones. We are often the Guinea pig for new enclosure technologies. RAID controllers we are active in the development as well. We often have faster RAID controllers on the marketplace months before other larger RAID companies catch up and by then we are still ahead of them. Why because we do not enter into any long term contracts with our suppliers. We want to stay cutting edge.

 Now that you know who we are, you can have confidence in our products like so many other resellers and end-users have.

 James Sessions

President

JES Hardware Solutions