Press Release (U.K.)

Asigra First to Deliver Agentless CDP as Integrated Feature for ROBO Backup
Industry leader achieves another software technology milestone

London, 12th September 2006 – Asigra, the technology specialists in agentless remote backup and recovery software, today announced a major enhancement to its Televaulting software with the addition of agentless Continuous Data Protection (CDP) functionality, providing real-time backup of changed data to virtually eliminate data loss for Windows, Linux, and MS-Exchange environments.

Asigra's Continuous Data Protection makes Televaulting the first remote office/branch office (ROBO) distributed backup software to add agentless CDP functionality and to do so without charging users any additional licensing. Televaulting pricing is based on a ‘pay as you grow’ model where users only pay for the actual amount of compressed data stored in the repository.

Televaulting CDP provides a more efficient backup option based on its virtually unlimited granularity. Customers can now restore data from an infinite number of recovery point objectives, while the backup window and recovery time objectives are effectively reduced to zero. Asigra delivers these benefits without the need for excessive backend storage accumulation to support the CDP functionality, minimising capacity requirements resulting in additional customer cost savings.

Following is comment from a Service Provider of Asigra Televaulting and CDP, Stack Computer Solutions, which provides Bespoke IT solutions for companies and organisations with 10 - 10,000 staff, providing Network, Software, Document Management and email Archiving Solutions for the SME.

"CDP is going to radically enhance the level of protection we can provide for our customers' mission-critical data," said Steve Cobham, Technical Director, Stack Computer systems. "The ability to have real-time backups throughout the day is very important to our customers and the agentless nature of Asigra CDP solution makes this a very stable and cost-effective solution for both Stack and our customers. We have already had a very positive response from our customers, ranging from SMBs to Plc's, mainly because Asigra CDP can be deployed across various platforms and systems, including Windows, Unix, Linux and MS-Exchange, solving the problem for the IT administrator that has different systems to backup within the company."

“Continuous Data Protection further removes the data loss vulnerabilities between regular scheduled backups by optimising Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), adding another powerful feature to the Asigra Televaulting platform, without adding cost,” said Eran Farajun, executive vice president of Asigra. “At Asigra, we see CDP as an integral part of the backup solution not a separate add-on product to be purchased, installed and managed.”

CDP is deployed as a no charge integrated feature of the DS-Client component of Asigra Televaulting software which is installed at the remote sites. When CDP is enabled, the DS-Client monitors the specified data source and whenever changes are detected, data is automatically backed up offsite. The DS-Client maintains Asigra’s agentless architecture even when CDP is being performed, Agentless CDP is enabled for Windows and UNIX file systems, and for Microsoft Exchange using the Televaulting Message Level Restore functionality.

CDP operations are not impacted by occasional small data recovery and file restoration operations. The DS-Client allows these actions while CDP backup is still active, ensuring that no data is put at risk during a recovery. Restores can be performed from the local copy or from the offsite vault.

The DS-Client also provides automatic retention policies enforcement without manual intervention once the initial retention rules are set. Retention enforcement is enabled for both regular and CDP backup, and separate retention configurations can be established for both local and offsite data storage

To minimise the bandwidth demands for remote backup, including CDP, Asigra Televaulting incorporates a series of WAN optimisation techniques, including de-duplication, data compression, block level incremental backup and incremental forever backup. Additionally, backup data sent over a WAN from a remote site to a data centre is protected by encryption up to AES 256 in flight and at rest. Asigra has architected its CDP solution to mitigate anticipated WAN latency issues. For example, if the WAN speed cannot keep up with the CDP data load, Asigra CDP dynamically and automatically adjusts the RPO granularity based on the available WAN capacity. The objective is to do the best possible job with the available infrastructure, instead of not doing anything. While an administrator may want to capture 10GB of changed data per second, his DSL connection is not good enough to transmit that changed data successfully. But he may be able to transmit changes every 5 or 10 minutes. Bandwidth-throttling is also integrated into the solution.

Asigra CDP is currently available as part of the Asigra Televaulting remote backup software. Existing Asigra customers can add CDP functionality at no cost as part of an Upgrade Subscription to Televaulting version 6.2.

About Asigra
Asigra is the award-winning leader in remote office/branch office online backup/recovery with more than three petabytes of data under protection. Since 1986, the company’s agentless Televaulting solution has centralised data management and eliminated the pricing and performance problems created by agent-based tape backup software in multi-site enterprises. Televaulting addresses state, Federal and international regulatory compliance demands by backing up remote/branch office data to the data center. Data is encrypted both in-flight over the WAN and at rest. Televaulting is offered by leading resellers and service providers worldwide to deliver highly secure data protection. Privately held Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with partner offices located globally. For more information, visitwww.asigra.com.