eMotion And Ciprico Provide Seamless Software and Storage Solutions For Managing and Storing Media Assets

Customers To Receive Highly-Optimized Software
and Storage Solution

Washington DC and Government Video Expo Booth #640 & 1040, November 27, 2001 - eMotion Inc., the global leader in digital media management (DMM) solutions, and Ciprico, Inc. (NASDAQ: CPCI), the leader in online storage solutions for digital media applications, today announced a comprehensive solution set based on eMotion MediaPartner™ 4.0 with Ciprico's Fiber Channel and SCSI storage solutions. The companies will market and deliver the solution to their joint channel and reseller partners.

The combination of MediaPartner 4.0's rich out-of-the-box feature set for managing digital assets and Ciprico's high-performance Fiber Channel and SCSI storage products, will allow a true end-to-end solution for managing and storing mixed media assets.

eMotion MediaPartner 4.0 powers the full lifecycle of digital media from content collaboration, deep storage, search and retrieval. Key product features include eMotion's patented natural language search technology and the ability to effectively move bandwidth-intensive media over the Internet.

Ciprico is a pioneer in Fiber Channel storage solutions and continues to be actively involved in further developing the industry. The company has redefined the standards for reliable, high-performance, large capacity digital storage by utilizing a flexible architecture to maximize performance for a wider range of applications.

"Our commitment to digital media management emphasizes sophisticated, integrated storage products and architectures," said Ciprico's President and CEO, Robert H. Kill. "Ciprico and eMotion understand each other's products, business and goals for customer success, and the client will now benefit from the seamless integration of our hardware and software solutions."

The media and entertainment industries will benefit the most from this partnership as they now have access to real-time, uncompressed storage and sustained performance, multiple video streams for broadcast applications, built-in redundancy for continuous operation and storage capacity ranging from a few gigabytes to multiple terabytes.

In addition, government, corporate, and web companies will benefit from fast transfer rates for data capture and high performance for video-on-demand and remote storage.

"The size and processing intensive nature of digital files, especially within the media and entertainment industries, dictates that DMM solutions integrate well into storage products and enterprise architectures," said Bob Griffin, President and CEO of eMotion, Inc. "Nobody else offers workgroup storage and software solutions that easily scale into the enterprise. This partnership proves that eMotion and Ciprico are far ahead of the competition.

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About eMotion, Inc.

eMotion, Inc. is the global leader in digital media management software and services, with customers that include blue-chip companies, the advertising industry, entertainment and broadcast industries and government agencies. eMotion MediaPartner ™ 4.0, the company’s out-of-the box software solution with patented technology, powers the entire lifecycle of media management - from creation and collaboration to searching, storage and distribution. The technology is available either as a product license or in a hosted environment. eMotion is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, London and Birmingham (U.K.) Most recently, President and CEO Bob Griffin was named the 2001 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the software category for the Greater Washington area.

About Ciprico, Inc.
Ciprico (Nasdaq: CPCI) designs, manufactures and markets storage and system solutions for digital media applications within the government and military, entertainment and media and enterprise markets. Ciprico solutions combine storage, networking and computing technologies to simplify and accelerate digital media workflows. Ciprico is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN. More information is available on the web at www.ciprico.com.