Press Release (U.K.)

Asigra Unveils Latest Generation Remote Office Backup/Recovery Software
Televaulting 6.0 now delivers industry’s only hot agentless Oracle 10g, SQL 8.0 and VMware XML support, silent mass deployment capabilities and cross platform protection

London, 6th February, 2006, Asigra, the technology specialists in agentless distributed backup and recovery software for network computing, today announced Asigra Televaulting 6.0, delivering a host of upgrades and new capabilities including Oracle 10g and SQL 8.0 support, centralised mass deployment and cross platform protection for UNIX, Linux, Windows and Mac environments.

Tape-based backup for Remote Office / Branch Office (ROBO) is a less viable option for distributed enterprises because of the hardware/software costs involved, agent licensing and maintenance, level of onsite IT support necessary and reliability of the backup. Multiply these issues by the number of remote sites requiring data protection and simplified remote site protection becomes a high priority. For corporations with regulatory, performance, reliability, accountability and cost challenges, Asigra’s disk-based agentless software provides a single answer for distributed site backup management.

“For two decades, Asigra has focused on backup and recovery software for remote offices,” said Eran Farajun, executive vice president of Asigra. “The result is a software solution with business driven features, giving remote office data the protection and respect equal to information stored at the data centre, as well as providing a level of accountability that no other data protection technology can match.”

Televaulting 6.0, the industry’s only high-performance agentless backup/recovery software for remote office protection now features hot agentless database backup for DB2, Oracle 10g and SQL 8.0, allowing database users to operate while backup operations are in process without disruption. The software also includes a block level resume feature for Oracle, so that if a connection is lost, the backup session can be continued at the block level rather than the file level thereby maintaining a high service level.

To automate mass deployments of Televaulting 6.0 across remote and branch offices, Asigra now provides an online interface for monitoring and managing remote site implementations of the backup/recovery software. Automatic configuration improvements include the ability to implement and run Televaulting in silent mode, allowing the identification and protection of all network computer systems without disruption to network users.

Operating system feature enhancements for Televaulting 6.0 span UNIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows environments. Windows 2003 and XP operating environments have synchronisation speed improvements to accelerate backup and recovery operations and Bare Metal Restore (BMR) capability, allowing administrators to quickly recover lost, damaged or corrupted data in a highly streamlined fashion to any bare metal system (at any location throughout the enterprise) without having to manually reinstall operating systems or configure hardware prior to use. To facilitate data movement between platforms, a new data migration engine provides cross platform capability. The Asigra migration capability maintains a consistent data format across the backup infrastructure, giving the ability to move backup sets without restriction to simplify backup consolidation.

Asigra eliminates many backup pain points through technology that is designed for enterprise-wide centralisation, built from the ground up for superior remote office / branch office backup and recovery. Televaulting 6.0 is available as a complete software package or as an online backup utility service through service providers who license Asigra software. Televaulting is tested and certified compatible by leading infrastructure providers not to take the place of data centre backup software, but to complement it for multi-site backup and recovery. Business benefits that differentiate Asigra’s offering from other backup solutions include true regulatory compliance, reduction in worldwide IT management expenditures, encrypted data “in-flight” and “at-rest” and compounded reduction of both hardware/software capital and enterprise-wide license costs.

Asigra Televaulting Version 6.0 is now available through resellers and service providers with pricing starting at $11,250 (direct conversion to other currencies according to current exchange rates - £6,392.75 on 04.01.06).

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 government and international regulatory compliance demands by backing up remote/branch office data to the data centre. Data is encrypted both “in-flight” over the WAN and “at rest.” Televaulting is offered by leading resellers and service providers worldwide including HP, InTechnology and Zycko to deliver highly secure data protection. Privately held Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with partner offices located worldwide. For more information, visit the company's website at www.asigra.com.