Press Release (U.S.)

Asigra and Isilon Systems Team Up to Offer Agentless Multi-Site Backup/Recovery Solution Using Isilon's Clustered Storage

Toronto – November 15, 2005 – AsigraTM, the technology specialist in agentless distributed backup and recovery software for network computing, today announced that it has partnered with Isilon Systems. Asigra joins Isilon’s global Strategic Partner Program that delivers groundbreaking storage solutions to meet the demands of rapidly-growing clustered storage environments.

Isilon is the premier provider of intelligent clustered storage systems. By combining a distributed file system with modular, best-of-breed industry-standard hardware, Isilon provides customers high-performance network storage systems that deliver unmatched reliability, scalability, simplicity and performance.

“Isilon has some of the coolest distributed file system technology on the planet. Users need to be able to have a simple, scaleable backup and recovery solution that is just as easy to implement and distribute as their Isilon gear - and Asigra fits the bill perfectly. This is an excellent matchup,” said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.

“Creating a storage strategy plan with aggressive RPOs and RTOs is a must for enterprises with ever growing storage requirements,” said Eran Farajun, executive vice president of Asigra. “Isilon’s customers now have the assurance of a remote-office/branch-office backup/restore solution with Asigra Televaulting that consolidates backup and seamlessly scales in the data center as their data needs increase.”

“Asigra’s data protection software is a perfect match with our industry leading Isilon IQ clustered storage systems, said Brett Goodwin, vp of marketing and business development at Isilon Systems. “Our joint customers will greatly benefit from the partnership between Isilon and Asigra, providing them with the backup and restore solutions they need for their mission-critical data storage.”

Asigra’s Televaulting™ software eliminates many backup pain points through technology that is designed for enterprise-wide centralization, built from the ground up to perform on a global level. It is tested and certified compatible by leading infrastructure providers not to take the place of data center backup software, but 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, and compounded reduction of both hardware/software capital and enterprise-wide license costs. Asigra also offers a ‘pay-as-you-grow’ compressed-capacity-based licensing model, allowing users to pay only for storage under management. The initial implementation capacity is based on the amount of compressed data to protect. After that, customers are charged per compressed terabyte of additional storage.

About Isilon Systems
Isilon is the leader in clustered storage. Isilon’s award-winning family of Isilon IQ products consists of high-performance clustered storage systems that combine an intelligent distributed file system with modular industry-standard hardware to deliver unmatched simplicity and scalability. Isilon IQ was designed for unstructured data and for use in data-intensive markets such as media and entertainment, digital imaging, life sciences, oil and gas and government. The Seattle-based company is financed by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Atlas Venture, Madrona Venture Group and Focus Ventures. For more information, visit: www.isilon.com.

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.