CHICAGO, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mountains West Exploration, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: MWXI), 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.'

Steve Morrison, EVP and General Manager of NDS further added, 'Our existing company infrastructure, including a proven sales force, stellar technical consultants and premier partner relationships, coupled with Fortune 1000 clients, greatly enhances the implementation timeframe for the leading-edge SDS model.'

Bill Lynes, Chairman and CEO of SDS stated, 'I am truly excited about the partnership we will have with Phil and Steve at NDS. They understand our business model and will greatly accelerate our solution development and sales process. The combination of our two companies will offer our customers world- class customer support with a single point-of-contact to deliver an integrated solution for IT consulting and virtualized data-backup storage operations.'

About Mountains West Exploration, Inc.

Mountains West Exploration, Inc. is a New Mexico incorporated holding company which is publicly listed and traded on the Over the Counter Bulletin Board Exchange (OTC.BB) listed under the symbol MWXI.OB.

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    Mountains West Exploration, Inc.
    Lee Wiskowski
    Co-CEO
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