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InTechnology PLC
13 November 2001

13 November 2001

InTechnology plc Announces Partnership with Hewlett Packard UK
to Supply Top Level Storage

InTechnology plc has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Hewlett
Packard to provide high-end management storage solutions for major corporate
enterprises.

Under the terms of the agreement InTechnology becomes an HP Elite Services
Provider creating secure services for the large scale storage requirements of
major clients.  Solutions will incorporate HP's powerful XP storage technology
within InTechnology's groundbreaking Managed Storage Services (MSS) portfolio.

"Major corporate clients have a critical need for high availability storage
solutions that provide resilient, secure, and high performance data storage
capable of scaling to many terabytes in capacity; we will be offering managed
storage services to meet these requirements," explains Steve Pearce,
InTechnology Chief Operating Officer.

A Storage Area Network (SAN) and an XP storage unit deployed on the client
site will be remotely managed from an InTechnology Network Management Centre.
For clients that require real-time replication of their data, the information
in their SAN can be replicated via a high performance telecoms connection to a
second SAN at an InTechnology Data Centre, with the entire solution managed by
InTechnology storage experts.

"For banking clients, for example, where thousands of transactions are
recorded every minute, data replication is vital - even a few seconds of data
loss for whatever reason causes severe business damage," explains Steve
Pearce.

Data security and business continuity can be assured. In the event of a
hardware failure or disaster at the client site, the client can continue
operations from the duplicate site with no loss of data.

InTechnology has a track record of technical excellence in data storage
services, secure Data Centres and high performance telecoms links. Hewlett
Packard have the high performance technology, the technical support services
and customer service level agreements required.

ENDS

For further information please contact:

Peter Wilkinson, Chief Executive                             020 7786 3400
Ann-marie Wilkinson / Susan Frost       Beattie Financial    020 7398 3300

About InTechnology plc

In the rapidly growing field of data storage, InTechnology is a technical
authority, a provider of storage solutions and now a lead player in the
important market for secure offsite backup, protection and recovery services.
All products and services are delivered to clients through a network of
resellers, which has grown through InTechnology's success as a value added
storage distributor, founded in 1984.  This Storage Solutions and Services
division of InTechnology provides the platform of technical excellence and
facilities for the Online Data Services division.  Protection of a company's
data has never been more relevant, or more important, and the Online Data
Services division offers backup and real time replication to remote and secure
InTechnology data centres.  Further information about InTechnology is
available at: http://www.intechnology.co.uk

About HP

Hewlett-Packard Company, a leading global provider of computing and imaging
solutions and services, is focused on making technology and its benefits
accessible to all.  HP had total revenue from continuing operations of $48.8
billion in its 2000 fiscal year.  Information about HP and its products can be
found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com