With compliance requirements such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley forcing businesses to think about the security of their stored data, Bell Microproducts' resellers can now better serve their customers by offering a broad range of technologies that, when combined with Bell Microproducts' service and integration services around servers, storage and software, ensure seamless security deployments.

Reseller technical services offered by Bell Microproducts will include pre-sale, integration, post-sale, implementation, and lab services support. Currently offering a multitude of security options to resellers including anti virus spam filter, SSL virtual private networks, unified threat management, firewall, email firewall, and intrusion detection and prevention, Bell Microproducts plans to extend its offerings in the future to serve as a one stop shop for VARs, eventually providing value add services and integration for security offerings.

Bell Microproducts offers multivendor expertise within a single organization, best in class enterprise field organization, leading financing options, and a highly qualified inside technical sales teams for quoting and configuration with an approximately four hour response timeframe.

Key security vendors already signed by Bell Microproducts include AEP Networks, Barracuda, Bloxx, Clearswift, Utimaco and SunBelt Software.

"Bell Microproducts is committed to the needs of its customers and to adapting and changing with the times to stay on the cutting edge of technology," continued Hume. "Storage and security go hand in hand, and the addition of the North American security division is a logical next step as we continue to grow the company."

As further evidence of the company's commitment to the success of its partners, Bell Microproducts will be offering training opportunities for resellers to familiarize themselves with the latest offerings from leading security vendors. Bell Microproducts' 'Security Sales Academy' will assist resellers in gaining the knowledge they need to be successful, including developing a sustainable and profitable security business, building security sales expertise within the organization, and obtaining access to exclusive campaigns and offers from vendors.

For more information on Bell Microproducts' North American Security Division, please visit www.bellmicrosecurity.com.

About Bell Microproducts Inc.

Bell Microproducts (Pink Sheets:BELM) is an international, value-added distributor of a wide range of high-tech products, solutions and services, including storage systems, servers, software, computer components, and peripherals, as well as maintenance and professional services. An industry-recognized specialist in storage products, the company is one of the world's largest storage-centric value-added distributors.

Bell Microproducts is uniquely qualified with deep technical and application expertise to service a broad range of information technology needs. From design to deployment, its products are available at any level of integration, from components to subsystem assemblies and fully-integrated, tested and certified system solutions. More information can be found in the company's SEC filings, or by visiting the Bell Microproducts Web site at www.bellmicro.com.

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"There is a rising demand for cloud-based security services," said Neil MacDonald, Vice President and Gartner Fellow. "Service providers are looking for solutions that enable them to deliver a wide range of security services capable of scaling up as necessary while remaining reliable and cost-effective."

Optenet's full suite of high-performance security software protects networks, desktops and mobile devices with security capabilities including: Web filtering, anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-phishing and data leakage protection, anti-spyware ad filtering, malicious code detection, protocol management (i.e. IM, chat and P2P), MMS anti-spam and reporting tools. The heart of the integrated management platform is CCOTTA(TM) -- the Carrier Class Optenet Transparent Traffic Analyzer -- an intelligent classification engine that differentiates traffic and directs it to the appropriate security application based on administrative policies.

At the foundation of Optenet's service provider deployments is a carrier-class architectural design that is flexible, customizable and delivers the carrier-class performance and scalability that service providers demand. This architecture, unlike traditional one-to-many multi-tenant security services architectures, enables service providers to deliver policy-based, customized security down to the individual user -- all from a single, centralized management console.

Some of the key benefits of Optenet's solution for service providers are:

-- Optenet's multi-tenant platform, which provides customizable security for enterprises and individual users, reducing initial capital expenditure and ongoing operational and maintenance costs;

-- Optenet's central management and distributed operation, which enables scalability to hundreds of thousands of users from a single location and radically reduces hardware, space and power requirements; and

-- High performance in the form of industry-leading accuracy, ultra-low latency and high availability.

"Security-as-a-service is an emerging market in North America, but Optenet has been developing technology to meet the needs of service providers for over a decade," said Optenet's president and CEO, Paco Martin. "Our proven, carrier-class platform uniquely delivers the flexible management, high performance and extreme scalability that service providers demand. Optenet's success in Europe and Latin America with some of the world's largest service providers is a testament to our business model and the performance of our multi-tenant security solution."

About Optenet

Optenet provides intelligent, integrated content security solutions to service providers and large enterprises. Optenet's technology protects 75 million end users worldwide, including the customers of many of the world's leading ISPs and mobile operators, including Orange, O2 and Telefonica, as well as global enterprise organizations such as McDonalds, Daimler AG and Hilton. For more information, visit www.optenet.com .

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Twedt continued, "We are assembling a commercial unit to send to CSA-International to complete our certification process, after which we will begin production to deliver to our $21,000,000 purchase order backlog."

American Security Resources Corporation

ARSC is a holding company developing clean energy technologies. Its Hydra Fuel Cell Corp. subsidiary is developing high volume, mass producible hydrogen fuel cells. Its American Hydrogen Corp. subsidiary is developing a method to inexpensively formulate hydrogen from ammonia. For more information, please see: www.americansecurityresources.com

Safe Harbor Statement

This news release contains certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27a of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21e of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can provide no assurance that actual results will meet or exceed such expectations.

SOURCE: Hydra Fuel Cell Corporation

Hydra Fuel Cell Corporation 
Jim Twedt, 503-645-2523 
info@hydrafuelcell.com 
or 
American Security Resources Corporation 
Frank Neukomm or Bob Farr, 713-465-1001 
info@amsrcorp.com

American Security Resources Corporation

ARSC is a holding company developing clean energy technologies. Its Hydra Fuel Cell Corp. subsidiary is developing high volume, mass producible hydrogen fuel cells. Its American Hydrogen Corp. subsidiary is developing a method to inexpensively formulate hydrogen from ammonia. For more information, please see: www.americansecurityresources.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

This news release contains certain "forward looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27a of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21e of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in such forward looking statements are reasonable, it can provide no assurance that actual results will meet or exceed such expectations.

SOURCE: Hydra Fuel Cell Corporation

Hydra Fuel Cell Corporation 
Jim Twedt, 503-645-2523 
info@hydrafuelcell.com 
or 
American Security Resources Corporation 
Frank Neukomm or Bob Farr, 713-465-1001 
info@amsrcorp.com