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NovaStor ADDS NEW SUPER-FAST NETWORK BACKUP OPTION

NovaStor Corporation introduces NovaStor Virtual Tape for the users of their popular NovaNET 8.5 backup software to enable network administrators to leverage the Direct Attached and Network Attached Storage (NAS) installed on their networks for faster backup and restore speeds.

NovaStor Virtual Tape emulates a tape library on the user's NAS system or Direct Attached Storage. By emulating a tape library, the user is able to handle any of the standard backup rotations, like basic 5-tape and Tower of Hanoi. Virtual Tape supports up to 1000 slots and 4 drives. NovaStor Virtual Tape allows the user to manage multiple tape magazines in the virtual library, allowing the user the greater flexibility of a larger backup rotation scheme without the added cost of the physical media.

"With many of our users adding NAS storage systems on their networks, we saw the need to take advantage of those systems as a part of a user's backup safety net. NovaStor Virtual Tape gives the user the benefit of a super-fast disk backup with incredibly quick restores, while maintaining data integrity with removable, off-site tape," comments NovaStor Founder and CEO Peter Means. "We have responded to an increasing demand of our users," added Means.

The Virtual Tape plug-in integrates NovaStor's own TapeCopy technology to allow any virtual tapes to be migrated to physical tape media for remote restoration or off-site archiving. This capability utilizes the speed and accessibility of hard drive storage to shrink the backup window while still allowing the convenience of tape storage for archival purposes.

NovaStor Virtual Tape supports Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, 2000, 2003, and XP, and is priced from $799 to $1099, based on the number of virtual drives supported. Supporting additional virtual drives will incrementally improve backup speeds.