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ManagedStorage/Front Porch Digital Target Broadcasters

Front Porch Digital Inc (FPDI) and ManagedStorage International Inc announced the companies will market each other's services to TV broadcasters and other Fortune 1000 companies around the world. FPDI, of Cherry Hill, N.J., is one of the leading information conversion companies with technology that-in a single capture-converts audio and video into a format that can be accessed, managed, and distributed via any digital platform. ManagedStorage of Broomfield, Colo., is one of the world's leading Internet storage service providers. Together, they will offer a cost-effective, one-stop solution for converting, indexing, archiving, storing and managing TV and film libraries so that these assets can be broadcast over broadband Internet, satellite, cable and advanced digital TV at the push of a button.

ManagedStorage and FPDI also plan to offer similar one-stop solutions to financial, commercial and industrial companies that need to manage large data libraries. Both companies will work on developing new conversion-storage products and services that will focus on additional document management solutions targeted at high storage growth industries. Both expect the relationship, once fully developed, to generate significant increases in annualized revenues.

"The agreement enables FPDI to quickly penetrate the lucrative TV and film market with our new technology," said Jean Reiczyk, FPDI chairman and CEO. FPDI's technology costs less to use than conventional methods; it is software based and requires only one capture for conversion into a common digital format versus conventional methods, which are hardware based and require multiple captures for conversions to formats. "The agreement also enables us to quickly penetrate other sectors for conversion and migration services offered by our Enterprise Data Management Service operations, which we recently acquired from StorageTek," Reiczyk added.

"ManagedStorage's Digital Archive services are the perfect complement to FPDI's digital media conversion services," said Daniel Coetsier, president of ManagedStorage. "These offerings will increase our companies' opportunities in the growing storage services market."

About ManagedStorage International

ManagedStorage International is a leading global provider of on-line managed information access and data protection. ManagedStorage's fully managed e-storage services, including Storage-on-Demand, Server Backup, PC Backup and complex Digital Archiving, enable fast-growing companies to focus on expanding their businesses. ManagedStorage offerings are managed from world-class global command centers located worldwide. ManagedStorage is "eStorage for eBusiness." For more information contact www.managedstorage.com, or call 720-566-5000.

About Front Porch Digital

Front Porch Digital Inc (www.fpdigital.com) is positioning itself as an industry leader in the emerging market for the conversion and formatting of text, images, audio, graphics and video, from any format to any other format, for access, management and distribution via any digital platform, including broadband Internet, DVD and ATV. The Company also is a leading provider of offline media conversion and data migration services to Fortune Global 500 companies that need to convert tape and optical assets from old to new formats to leverage technological advances.

Contact Jordan Gruener, ManagedStorage International Inc, 720-566-5778, jordan.gruener@managedstorage.com.

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