Press Release (U.S.)

Asigra Televaulting to be a ‘Hot’ Technology in 2006, Experts at Storage Magazine Say

TORONTO – January 11, 2006 – Asigra™ Televaulting, the leading agentless distributed backup and recovery software for network computing, will be among the ‘Hot Technologies of 2006,’ TechTarget’s Storage magazine said in the December 2005 issue.

“In this assessment, ‘hot’ means those products IT organizations are most likely to need and will seriously consider in the coming year,” wrote Alan Radding, frequent contributor to Storage. The editors selected just five technologies that they predict will be most in demand in 2006 and singled out Asigra as a key provider of remote office support.

Greg Schulz, senior analyst at StorageIO and author of the book Resilient Storage Networks, agreed that remote vaulting and distributed backup, exemplified by Asigra’s Televaulting, will grow in prominence in the coming year.

“Managing data in remote sites, where there may be little or no IT staff present, and delivering acceptable levels of disaster recoverability while achieving regulatory compliance is clearly increasing in complexity. Approaches like Asigra Televaulting make these goals workable, and its agentless architecture and centralized administration make economic sense for a very large, multi-site network.”

“The year 2005 was a banner year for Asigra as we increased revenue 200 percent over the previous year, signed multiple customer and OEM agreements, won several product awards and passed the three-petabyte milestone of data managed by Televaulting,” said Eran Farajun, Asigra Executive Vice President. “If the experts say this trend is continuing, we welcome even more successes in 2006.”

Asigra’s Televaulting, an agentless WAN platform solution that delivers backup/restore service as a utility, brings an easy-to-deploy multi-site data protection solution for enterprise use. Providing a highly scalable and secure method for business continuity needs, Televaulting delivers a simplified management platform that provides backup and retrieval of corporate data for businesses, as well as the ability for service providers to expand beyond regional boundaries to open up new markets.

Just over one year ago, Asigra Televaulting received a bronze award from the editors of Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com in their annual Products of the Year competition.

About Storage
TechTarget’s Storage Magazine is the only monthly publication that provides IT executives, managers, and staff with in-depth analysis and forward-looking guidance on managing, storing, networking and safeguarding the data at the core of large organizations. TechTarget distributes the magazine to a controlled, qualified circulation of 50,000 storage-focused IT professionals. Storage has received numerous awards including eight ASBPE Awards for Editorial Excellence and two Folio: Show “Ozzie” Awards. In addition, the editorial staff of Storage has for two consecutive years been named a finalist for the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Awards for Excellence in Business Journalism.

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 agent-based software compliance, pricing and performance issues for multi-site enterprises. Televaulting is offered by leading resellers and service providers worldwide including HP and DS3Datavaulting to deliver highly secure data protection. Privately held Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with partner offices located worldwide. For more information visit www.asigra.com.