Press Release (U.S.)

NWS Selects Asigra for Backup/Recovery of Critical Weather Service Data
DS3 DataVaulting Service Ensures Data Backup/Recovery for National Weather Service Southern Region

TORONTO March 28, 2006 – Asigra™, the technology specialists in agentless distributed backup and recovery software for network computing, announced today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) Southern Region utilizes Asigra technology in an automated backup/recovery solution implemented to protect critical email, financial, and observational weather data. Online data backup and recovery services are delivered through DS3 DataVaulting, a Virginia-based provider of scalable, enterprise-level data management solutions for data vaulting, backup, recovery, and archiving. Utilizing Asigra agentless backup/restore technology, the weather service ensures rapid, location-independent data recoverability, even in the event of a wide-impact disaster.

“The National Weather Service understands better than most just how devastating a natural disaster can be to business continuity and communications,” said Stacy Hayes, vice president of operations and business development at DS3 DataVaulting. “This backup/recovery solution ensures recoverability and at the same time meets NOAA requirements for data security, cost efficiency and administrative simplicity. Now at the weather service, backups run 10 times faster, they’ve reduced costs, and they report rock-solid reliability.”

“Events of the past several years have taught all of us the importance of maintaining more than localized data backup,” said Eran Farajun, executive vice president of Asigra. “The DS3 DataVaulting online backup service based on Asigra technology gives NOAA’s National Weather Service the protection of secure, offsite backup with vastly improved recoverability — it’s a necessary practice for disaster preparedness.”

About NOAA’s National Weather Service
The National Weather Service is an office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department. NOAA is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction and research of weather and climate-related events and providing environmental stewardship of our nation’s coastal and marine resources. Through the emerging Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), NOAA is working with its federal partners and nearly 60 countries to develop a global monitoring network that is as integrated as the planet it observes. For more information, visit www.noaa.gov.

About DS3 DataVaulting
DS3 DataVaulting solutions feature regulatory-compliant best practices and state-of-the-art offsite data vaulting facilities designed to ensure persistent availability of critical enterprise data. Leveraging DataVaulting service, clients can reliably protect all mission-critical information resident on servers, desktops, laptops, and home-office PCs. For more information, visit www.ds3datavaulting.com.

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, visitwww.asigra.com.