Press Release (U.S.)

Asigra Frees Veritas Customers From Backup Software Licensing Costs and Complexities

Toronto – November 29, 2005 –Asigra™, the technology specialist in agentless distributed backup and recovery software for network computing, today announced that Veritas NetBackup* users can escape new higher licensing fees by adopting Asigra Televaulting™ software, eliminating per-server agent licenses and allowing customers to pay only for the aggregate compressed stored capacity they use.

According to recent press reports, Veritas customers are struggling to cope with new budget–busting fees imposed by Veritas as the company is abandoning its existing discount policies as software licenses come up for renewal following its acquisition by Symantec Corp. The higher license fees are in addition to the complexity and management overhead that enterprise customers incur while managing hundreds or thousands of Veritas licenses. The license-based pricing model is also used by CA, Legato, CommVault, Tivoli and others, making backup and recovery for distributed enterprises expensive and difficult to manage.

Asigra Televaulting software eliminates licensing costs and administrative complexity altogether with innovative capacity-based pricing, allowing users to license Asigra like buying disk, by the terabyte. Asigra’s “pay-as-you-grow” compressed-capacity-based licensing model allows users only to pay 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.

“Asigra’s agentless backup solution and capacity-based pricing significantly reduce the complexity of managing a backup environment,” said Tony Asaro, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. “Simplifying backup management has a direct impact on lowering storage TCO and addressed the major customer complain about backup software.”

“The simple truth about Veritas-type software licensing is that it’s an outdated, costly model for distributed enterprises,” said Eran Farajun, executive vice president of Asigra. “As more companies move toward utility computing and delivering storage as a utility, Asigra is leading the way with a utility-type pricing model where customers only pay for the compressed backup capacity they actually consume, making distributed backup simpler to deploy, easier to manage and more cost effective.“

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, encrypted data “in-flight” and “at-rest” and compounded reduction of both hardware/software capital and enterprise-wide license costs.

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.