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Asigra Receives Top Rating From InfoWorld Test Center Editors and Analysts for Televaulting 6.0 Software

SAN FRANCISCO, March 13, 2006 – Asigra Televaulting 6.0 receives “Very Good” award from InfoWorld Media Group, responsible for delivering award-winning technology and product news, research and analysis to the IT community for over 25 years.

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. Asigra Televaulting 6.0, delivers a host of upgrades and new capabilities including Oracle 10g and SQL 8.0 support, centralized mass deployment and cross- platform protection for UNIX, Linux, Windows and Mac environments.

A rating of “Very Good” recognizes companies whose products are reviewed and receive a score of 8.0 or higher based on a list of criteria most relevant to enterprise buying decisions. Receiving a “Very Good” rating assures IT professionals of a product’s quality and market readiness before they make a purchase.

“Our methodology for testing products is simple,” says Doug Dineley, InfoWorld Media Group’s Executive Editor for the Test Center. “We utilize real, working technologists and analysts with years of ‘in the trenches’ IT experience to construct tests in an - more - environment that mirrors the real enterprises of our readers. This ratings’ program gives IT buyers a quick sense of the top enterprise-ready products on the market today.”

According to Eran Farajun, Asigra Executive Vice President, “We are pleased that InfoWorld recognized the unique capabilities of our Televaulting 6.0 software. It verifies our belief that we have created a software solution that for the first time gives remote office data equal protection and respect as information stored at the data center.”

InfoWorld’s testing environment spans over 6,000 miles in seven locations, allowing test center analysts to realistically simulate environments of the IT professional. With multiple locations and true IT professionals conducting the tests, InfoWorld is able to accurately review products and services that require either a highly distributed or networked environments or a single, specialized testing facility. Using a unique rating system, the InfoWorld Test Center evaluates product based on the criteria most important to the specific technology category.

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.

About InfoWorld Media Group
For 25 years, InfoWorld Media Group has provided cutting-edge coverage and evaluation of IT products and services for technology experts in senior management. Through integrated channels including print, online, and events, InfoWorld reaches the most influential senior-level information technologists -- those who drive their enterprises' strategies and technology purchases. Powered by a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide both hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products.

About IDG
InfoWorld is a division of IDG, the world's leading technology media, research, and event company. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers and offers online users the largest network of technology-specific sites around the world through IDG.net (www.idg.net), which comprises more than 330 targeted Web sites in 80 countries. IDG is also a leading producer of 168 computer-related events worldwide, and IDG’s research company, IDC, provides global market intelligence and advice through 51 offices in 43 countries worldwide. Company information is available at www.idg.com.