17/09-03   -   Pressmeddelande

Bakbone to demonstrate Enterprise-class features of Netvault 7 at Storage Expo 2003 Sweden

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Mariehamn Finland - September 17, 2003 — With only seven days to go until the start of this year’s Storage Expo show in Stockholm, BakBone has announced that it will be demonstrating advanced functionalities of its flagship backup and recovery software, NetVault 7 at the show which is held in conjunction with Networks Telecom 2003.

BakBone will be demonstrating the key features of NetVault which set it apart from more conventional backup software solutions. These include:
- NetVault’s flexible disk-to-disk backup strategy, which allows users to quickly backup their data to a pseudo library on disk and then migrate it off to tape for long-term retention. BakBone will be demonstrating this with the help of a StorageTek L40 library.



- NetVault’s recently-introduced Application Plugin Modules™ for NDMP Snap Mirror to Tape and SnapShot Manager, which were developed to support Network Appliance® environments. BakBone will demonstrate this using a Network Appliance® F825 filer.

- NetVault’s recently announced client software for Macintosh environments. As such, BakBone is now the only backup and recovery software vendor to offer truly heterogeneous support for enterprise computing environments with mixed operating systems. Support for Macintosh now complements NetVault’s support for Windows, Unix, Linux and Novell.

- NetVault’s Advanced Policy Management and Event Notification which provides data management with multiple protection options for enterprise computing environments.

- NetVault’s User Level Access which allows NetVault administrators to safely extend control of NetVault to other end users.

- NetVault’s Advanced Reporting which allows reports to be created on all aspects of the NetVault system including job execution, media utilization and system operations. No other product offers the comprehensive reporting capabilities for its backup and recovery operations. In addition to the twenty-nine pre-defined reports, users can define their own reports including powerful correlations from NetVault’s data gathering engine.

“NetVault disk-to-disk backup functionality, known as Virtual Disk Library™ (VDL), is increasingly sought-after by end-users who don’t have large backup windows for their data backups to tape," states Sean Jackson, EMEA Marketing Manager for BakBone.

“Moreover, when they then migrate their data to tape for retention purposes, they welcome the ability to restore their data directly from tape withouth having to re-stage to disk first. Several of our customers have noted the drastic reduction in time required to not only back up but, more importantly, restore their data when safeguarded in this manner."

BakBone’s Application Plugin Module™ SnapMirror to Tape (SM2T) provides additional data protection to Network Appliance® SnapMirror environments. NetApp® SnapMirror mirrors mission-critical data from a primary site to a remote, secondary site. In the event of a site-wide disaster, SnapMirror delivers fast access to the most up-to-date copy of the data.

The NetVault APM™ provides additional disaster protection by simplifying and automating the process of copying the mirrored data to tape media for offsite storage, thus minimising business interruption and catastrophic data loss.

“BakBone’s support for NDMP environments, especially Network Appliance®, has always been one of our key areas of focus," continues Jackson. “By extending that support with supplementary modules, NetVault is increasingly becoming the de-facto backup software standard for networked storage environments."

About NetVault
With support for a wide range of storage devices ranging from stand-alone drives up to multi terabyte libraries, NetVault is the perfect solution for medium and large-sized organisations who require a powerful and scalable backup/recovery solution that allows users, from workgroup through to enterprise, to combine high performance with ease of use across a wide range of data storage topologies (from LAN to NAS and SAN) and operating systems (UNIX, NT/2000, Linux) – and all at a fraction of the cost of other backup solutions.

Pricing and Availability
NetVault 7 is available from BakBone’s extensive network of channel partners throughout Europe. Pricing begins at €995 for an NT or Linux workgroup package and at €2595 for a similar package running on UNIX. Both include NetVault server software, and software for five clients, four tape drives and library support.

About BakBone Software, Inc
BakBone Software (OTCBB: BKBOF, TSE: BKB) is an international storage management software company that develops and globally distributes high-performance software solutions to the network storage and open systems markets. BakBone´s backup and restore software provides scalable data protection from the workgroup to the enterprise. Founded in 2000, BakBone Software´s products are used by companies worldwide, and are distributed through a network of OEMs and solution providers.

BakBone´s corporate headquarters is located at 10145 Pacific Heights Boulevard, San Diego, California 92121, with European headquarters in Poole, Dorset. Its stock is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.. For more information on BakBone products, call +358 18 17598, e-mail stefane@bakbone.com, or access BakBone´s web site at www.bakbone.com.

Safe Harbor
The statements contained in this press release that are not historical in nature are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees since there are inherent difficulties in predicting future results, and actual results could differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements.

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