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BlackBall® and Sabio Storage Announce Strategic Alliance

BlackBall® and Sabio Storage Announce Strategic Alliance

Award-Winning Company Embeds Intelligent Data Access In Network Attached Storage Products

SAN DIEGO - May 3, 2006 - BlackBall® Inc., a leading provider of unstructured data management solutions, and Sabio Storage™, a provider of network storage products, today announced a strategic alliance allowing small to medium-sized business (SMB) users and network managers to more effectively manage unstructured data. The solution combines BlackBall's SearchIn™ application with the Sabio Storage CM-4 Network Attached Storage (NAS) Appliance, resulting in a powerful search tool that enables quick access to stored information. By utilizing the integrated product, SMBs will dramatically reduce response time to requests from customers, partners or co-workers.

"We're excited about this opportunity to apply BlackBall's technology to the SMB market with the Sabio NAS Appliance," said Patricia Brown, President of BlackBall. "Integrating SearchIn's real-time indexing and organization of unstructured data provides a complete solution for managing digital storage and performing fast accurate searches."

"BlackBall's SearchIn takes the Sabio CM-4 to the next level of usability and functionality, as it significantly improves the way SMBs access what could be their greatest asset - their own data," said Ajay Gupta, general manager, Sabio Storage. "The power and performance of BlackBall's SearchIn is a natural complement to the security, flexibility and capacity of the Sabio CM-4 NAS Appliance."

BlackBall's SearchIn Server Edition retails for $695.00 and runs on 32-bit Windows Server Operating Systems, RedHat, Debian, and SuSE Linux, Sun Solaris and Mac OS X. SearchIn Agent Edition retails for $395.00 and support the above plus HP-UX, AIX, and Novell NetWare. SearchIn Network Storage Edition retails for $695.00 and runs on Windows Storage Server and ApplianceWare's NAS OS. SearchIn Archive Edition software retails for between $2,995.00-$99,995.00 and runs on 32-bit Windows Server Operating Systems, RedHat, Debian, and SuSE Linux, Sun Solaris and Mac OS X. SearchIn Professional Edition and Seat Licenses retail for $29.95. SearchIn is available as a free trial download at www.blackball.com..

About BlackBall, Inc.
BlackBall, Inc., located in San Diego, California, is the industry leader in Unstructured Data Management solutions, receiving awards from Networld+Interop and Red Herring Magazine. BlackBall was also named one of the Top 100 Private Companies in North America for 2005. For more information visit the BlackBall booth #505 at Inter-op or to download a free 30-day trail version of SearchIn, please contact the BlackBall sales department at sales@blackball.com,, (877) 808-2288, or www.blackball.com.

About Sabio Storage
Sabio Storage is a part of Badger Holdings LLC, a multimillion-dollar technology incubator based in North Sioux City, South Dakota. Sabio Storage was established in early 2005 to deliver recoverable network storage solutions for small businesses, sole proprietorships, home office and a range of customers without the hefty price tags typically associated with such storage solutions. More information is available at www.sabiostorage.com or by calling (800) 675-8191.
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