Press Release (U.S.)

Asigra Televaulting Solution to be Integrated into HP Electronic Vaulting Services for Enterprises
Asigra provides industry-leading enterprise technology, giving HP Services robust electronic vaulting service capabilities

TORONTO. – September 28, 2005 – Asigra™, the technology leader in agentless distributed backup and recovery software for network computing for more than 19 years, announced that its Televaulting™ solution will be offered as HP’s software of choice for production-hardened electronic vaulting capabilities to its enterprise customers.

Asigra’s Televaulting software will be incorporated into HP Electronic Vaulting Services for Enterprises, a managed service that includes installation/configuration and housing of the vault at HP data centers. Asigra’s Televaulting, with its focus on recoverability, is designed to ensure that customer data at all protected locations is fully validated, verified and recoverable.

Asigra Televaulting is an agentless multi-site backup and recovery solution that delivers backup/restore service as a utility and allows the protection of all corporate computers without the management concern or expense of agents. Televaulting’s powerful end-to-end data encryption provides for data security and allows enterprise-wide backup across the WAN or IP without concern to remote locations around the globe using existing infrastructures. Using Televaulting’s agentless architecture, deployment is fast and easy, with the installation of agentless client software on only one node of each data center in the enterprise, regardless of whether there is one server, fifty, or five hundred within a heterogeneous LAN environment. Asigra uses advanced WAN optimization techniques to consolidate data protection activities across multiple locations while reducing bandwidth requirements. Televaulting can help businesses to achieve regulatory compliance, reduce worldwide IT management expenditures, and realize a compounded reduction of both hardware/software capital and enterprise-wide licensing costs.

Key features include:

• Agentless architecture, simplifying management and enabling the protection of all corporate computer systems, whether there be 100 or 10,000, without increasing expense


• Bare Metal Restore (BMR), allowing administrators to quickly recover lost, damaged or corrupted data without having to manually reinstall operating systems or configure hardware prior to use


• Autonomic Healing verifies the validity of all backup data and automatically corrects third-party problems encountered to provide for readiness for data recovery, facilitating the maintenance of data integrity


• Advanced security features, including authentication, strong encryption for data “in-flight” and “at-rest”, and non-escrowed keys, provide the peace of mind customers expect


• Grid-based performance and capacity scaling, allowing the product to easily grow as data loads increase


• Open interoperability, allowing the protection of a wide range of platforms and systems


• Production hardened reliability, currently protecting more than three Petabytes across thousands of systems worldwide

“Our relationship with HP is a ‘win win’ for Asigra and HP. It immediately expands our global reach to existing and potential HP enterprise customers while providing their global customers with a proven, enterprise-class method to quickly deploy a robust and encrypted off-site archiving solution without the complexity and costs that businesses have been forced to accept in the past,” said Eran Farajun, executive vice president of Asigra. “With Asigra Televaulting at its core, HP Electronic Vaulting Services for Enterprises will offer efficient, advanced backup and restore capabilities for businesses worldwide.”

“Our relationship with Asigra will enable customers to take advantage of Asigra Televaulting’s unique functionality together with HP’s extensive portfolio of services,” said Shaun Mc Caughan, world-wide manager, managed storage services, HP. “IT administrators worldwide will enjoy a level of protection that can reduce corporate exposure and vulnerability, protect mission-critical operations against diverse downtime risks, and speed recovery if catastrophe strikes.”

About Asigra
Founded in 1986, Asigra is the award-winning leader in agentless distributed data backup and recovery solutions for network computing. With Asigra's Televaulting software, enterprises and service providers can reliably protect mission-critical information across all their geographically dispersed "data islands," whether those islands reside on servers, desktops or laptops. Leading all other distributed backup and restore disk-to-disk software vendors, more than 3 petabytes of data is protected with Asigra Televaulting. The privately held company is based in Toronto, Canada. For more information, visit the company's website at www.asigra.com.