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ManagedStorage ENHANCES ITS DATA PROTECTION SERVICE

ManagedStorage International Inc recently announced a strategic partnership with CommVault Systems Inc, a provider of unified, enterprise data management solutions. Through this partnership, MSI has further enhanced its popular Remote Backup and Restore service now marketed as RemoteStor. RemoteStor is a guaranteed data protection service that ensures business continuity at an affordable cost by providing businesses a remote, off-site, enterprise-class tape backup solution that is 100% managed and monitored 24x7 by MSI's storage experts. RemoteStor now offers superior bandwidth utilization and reliability features that allow businesses to easily leverage their existing IP or private network broadband connections to automate their data protection process. The result is that customers can protect more data over lower bandwidth speeds while still benefiting from MSI's 100% service guarantee. In addition, the service eliminates the upfront expense for software, hardware, and their associated maintenance. Customers benefit from guaranteed data protection for a small monthly service fee that is up to 61 percent less expensive than do-it-yourself options.

"MSI's partnership with CommVault has enabled more companies to cost effectively and reliably protect their business by completely outsourcing their data protection functions," said Tom Sweeney, president and CEO of ManagedStorage. "With no upfront software costs and minimal monthly expense, there is no reason every business with a network connection shouldn't protect their company's valuable data assets."

RemoteStor utilizes high performance CommVault Galaxy backup and restore software to cost-effectively protect businesses' data remotely in secure data centers across the U.S. Through Galaxy, MSI provides a unified, seamless data protection solution for distributed, heterogeneous environments. With the Galaxy solution, MSI manages its policy-based actions across operating environments, applications and storage types, simplifying the management of complex storage networks. Through the MSI-CommVault partnership, RemoteStor users can also take advantage of Galaxy's superior Microsoft platform support and acknowledged 'best of breed' storage management solution for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, NT Server, Windows 2000 and .NET systems.

"Eliminating up front costs should be one of the primary advantages of outsourcing backup and recovery responsibilities to a service provider," said Gartner Sr. Analyst, Adam Couture. "The MSI/CommVault partnership helps deliver that advantage because it builds licensing fees directly into the cost of service and doesn't require users to pay up front license fees for every server they protect."

"MSI's RemoteStor service is an ideal complement to CommVault's offerings, because it now allows small and medium sized businesses to couple enterprise, high performance Galaxy backup and restore software with the best available data protection service," said Bob Hammer, president and CEO of CommVault. "This combination is so affordable, reliable and robust-it's a best-in-class solution that delivers data protection that customers can count on, now and into the future."

RemoteStor is currently available nationwide through more than 70 authorized resellers and located in over 20 public data centers. RemoteStor supports single location and multi-location businesses with data sets ranging from as little as five gigabytes, up to multiple terabytes per location. For further service information, please contact MSI at 800-397-1719 or visit www.managedstorage.com.

About ManagedStorage International

ManagedStorage International Inc, a premier provider of guaranteed data protection storage solutions, enables companies and leading service providers to strategically manage storage as a critical corporate resource. Its suite of turnkey Data Protection Services enables service providers and value added resellers to offer guaranteed storage services to their customers. ManagedStorage enables businesses to focus internal IT resources on initiatives that drive competitive performance. The company manages over three petabytes of data for companies throughout the U.S. and has been 100% successful helping companies restore lost data.

The company was formed in April 2000 when it was spun out from StorageTek, with funding from Great Hill Partners and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. ManagedStorage is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, USA.

About CommVault Systems

CommVault Systems provides unified enterprise data management solutions to ensure high performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of complex storage networks. The company's singular focus is creating and implementing fast, reliable and easy-to-use solutions to meet customers' data management requirements. CommVault's software products seamlessly ensure the reliable, rapid restoration of files, business-critical applications and today's most popular databases. Information on CommVault is available on the World Wide Web at www.commvault.com or by calling 732-870-4000. CommVault's corporate headquarters is located in Oceanport, New Jersey in the United States.