Press Release (U.S.)

Asigra Named ‘Cool Vendor’ By Leading Analyst Firm
Vendors selected for the ‘Cool Vendor’ report are innovative, impactful and intriguing

TORONTO – March 21, 2006 – Asigra™, the technology leader in agentless distributed backup and recovery software for network computing, has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the March 6 published report “Cool Vendors in Data Protection, 2006” by Carolyn DiCenzo and Dave Russell of Gartner, Inc.

The Gartner Report states that “Disk-based backup and therefore disk-based recoveries will be the most significant technology impact on recovery in the next five years.” The report includes "A group of cool new data protection vendors are delivering disk-based solutions that capture data more frequently and that deliver faster recovery than traditional backup solutions."

“We believe Asigra being named a ‘cool vendor’ is confirmation that our Televaulting solution is focused on today’s demanding enterprises and delivers efficient, cost-effective and highly secure storage for remote office/branch office mission-critical data,” said Eran Farajun, executive vice president of Asigra.

Asigra eliminates many backup pain points through technology that is designed for enterprise-wide centralization, built from the ground up for superior remote office/branch office data 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 center backup software, but to complement it for multi-site backup and recovery. Business benefits that differentiate Asigra’s offering from other backup solutions include regulatory compliance features such as offsite vaulting and encrypted data “in-flight’ and “at-rest”, reduction in worldwide IT management expenditures, encrypted and compounded reduction of both hardware/software capital and enterprise-wide license costs.

About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designated to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including and warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

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 centralized 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 including HP and DS3 DataVaulting to deliver highly secure data protection. Privately held Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with partner offices located globally. For more information visit www.asigra.com.