Mountains West to Acquire NDS

CHICAGO -- Mountains West Exploration, Inc. , today announced it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Net Direct Systems, LLC (NDS). NDS is a premier global IT systems integrator with approximately $30 million of revenues offering innovative, customer driven solutions and services designed to meet the individual needs of large enterprise IT organizations. With nine years of extensive experience and deep expertise developing data center, network and security solutions on a variety of platforms and devices, NDS excels at comprehensive, mission-critical enterprise systems development. Utilizing a wide range of industry-leading product offerings and strategic partnerships, including HP, Riverbed and Secure Computing, NDS has the proven expertise to architect and implement highly secure systems, storage, and network infrastructures.

Lee Wiskowski and Doug Stukel, co-chief executive officers of Mountains West Exploration, said, "Partnering with a proven, successful systems integrator like NDS along with Secured Digital Storage (SDS) will accelerate the implementation of our vision of becoming a world class provider of remote, high density, secure and survivable online backup storage integrated with NDS' proven capability of providing mission-critical enterprise solutions."

Phil Santoni, CEO of NDS stated, "I have worked with Bill Lynes at SDS and his team for several years. SDS' business model will result in a paradigm shift in the remote online backup storage of mission critical and compliance driven data."

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