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ASIGRA EXPANDS RELEASE OF SOFTWARE, SIGNS DEAL W/30 COMPANIES

Asigra announced that its powerful and innovative Asigra Televaulting software is shipping in volume through a network of resellers across North America.

In addition, Asigra's launch of the Assurance Reseller Program has attracted more than 30 channel partners interested in selling the Asigra Televaulting software either directly to their customers or as a storage service utility with recurring revenue based on the amount of data being managed. This unique dual-choice sales option has rapidly expanded Asigra's presence in the distributed backup and recovery segment of the enterprise data storage market.

"The response by the reseller community for the Asigra Televaulting solution has been quite staggering," said Ron Roberts, president of BluPointe DRS, Asigra's first North American distributor and point of contact for its Assurance Reseller Program. "Asigra's solution fills a void where many other data storage companies have failed to venture. Resellers have quickly realized the benefits of adding this centralized backup and restore option to their storage offerings because customers are in need of just such a protection scheme without the expense and complexity of traditional backup and recovery systems. As the saying goes, build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door."

"Asigra fills a vacuum for backup and restore solutions that protect the entire business, including the remote office," said Bobby Thomas, vice president of Carotek Inc. "The Televaulting software is ideal for ensuring the availability of mission-critical information across geographically dispersed locations, including servers, desktops, laptops and home-office PCs."

Asigra Televaulting is agentless multi-site backup and recovery software that combines utility service provisioning with a disk-based, WAN-optimized architecture to exceed the limitations of traditional distributed backup software. Asigra Televaulting provides grid-based performance and capacity scaling for virtually unlimited data growth, allowing the software to support any backup load.

Asigra eliminates many storage pain points through technology that is designed for enterprise-wide centralization. It is tested and certified compatible by leading infrastructure providers, not to take the place of data center backup software, but complement it for remote sites.