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BakBone Partners With StoreAge Networking Technologies

StoreAge Networking Technologies, a leading provider of Enterprise SAN Management software, has announced interoperability certification between StoreAge's SVM (Storage Virtualization Manager) and BakBone Software's flagship backup and recovery software, NetVault. The certification offers customers a fully tested and supported solution that will automatically backup business-critical data in SAN environments while production systems continue to operate.

By integrating StoreAge's network-based storage virtualization and data replication technology with BakBone's data protection capabilities, customers can now perform automated and non-disruptive backups of their SAN environments. Controlled by user-defined procedures, the automated backup process uses StoreAge's multiView snapshot and multiCopy replication products to create instantly addressable volume copies, and then directs BakBone's NetVault software to backup that data. The snapshot, replication and backup processes all occur non-disruptively in the background, while production servers remain online, thus maximizing application uptime and data availability.

"Many administrators are faced with the very difficult problem of backing up increasing amounts of data while trying to meet application Service Level Agreements that demand greater uptime," said Mark Spowart, president of StoreAge Networking Technologies Inc. "By partnering with BakBone Software, our mutual customers now have a complete data protection solution that allows their business-critical applications to remain online while their data is backed up quickly and non-disruptively.

We are pleased to be partnering with StoreAge. Their innovative technology combined with NetVault's modular architecture provide our customers with a lower overall total cost of ownership, said Keith Rickard, president and CEO of BakBone Software. With SVM and NetVault combined, we can deliver a cost effective way to protect critical data and maximize IT efficiency in complex SAN environments, he added.

StoreAge's SVM dramatically reduces the cost of SAN storage and SAN storage management by centralizing the provisioning, performance optimization and protection of storage across heterogeneous hosts and storage devices. Key business advantages of SVM include more efficient utilization of SAN resources, simplified management of disparate storage assets, data replication for enhanced business continuity, accelerated application testing and deployment, online data restores, and non-disruptive backup to both disk and tape.

BakBones NetVault is built upon an advanced modular architecture that provides IT managers the flexibility for growth and continued enhancements as information storage needs expand and change. With an intuitive and easy-to-use GUI, NetVault delivers enterprise-wide control in both distributed and centralized environments, operates in multi-vendor networks and supports a broad range of platforms, applications and high performance tape devices.

About StoreAge Networking Technologies

StoreAge Networking Technologies is a privately held company founded in 1999 as a spin-off from IIS Intelligent Information Systems and since then obtained over $28 million of equity investment from major strategic as well as leading financial groups. The Company has offices in Irvine, CA and Nesher, Israel, as well as strategic partners in several European and Far East countries. StoreAge develops and provides innovative storage management software with a focus on Storage Area Network (SAN) architecture. StoreAge is a technology leader in storage virtualization using an Asymmetric design implemented through a SAN appliance approach. The Company seeks to increase and expand its cooperation with major OEM partners, storage systems integrators and storage service providers to deliver advanced storage solutions to the enterprise market. StoreAge is a member of both the US and the European Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and of SNIA's IP Storage Forum. For additional information, please visit the StoreAge Web site at www.store-age.com.

About BakBone Software Inc

BakBone Software 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 near-line archival and backup/restore software suites provide 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. For more information on BakBone products, call 866-484-2663, e-mail sales@bakbone.com , or access BakBone's Web site at www.bakbone.com.