Connected Online Backup 2.0 earns PC Magazine's Editors' Choice Award for online backup services

Business Wire, April 8, 1997

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 1997--

Second Major Award Re-Affirms Connected as

Industry Leader in Online Backup

Connected Corporation, provider of the industry-leading Connected Online Backup service (formerly known as DataSafe), today announced that its Connected Online Backup service has earned the prestigious PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award in the magazine's April 8, 1997 issue.

Marking the second time in the last three months that Connected's automated, online backup service has been honored with a major industry award, the most recent PC Magazine article praised Connected Online Backup 2.0 as being "the clear leader for its range of services."

"We are extremely pleased that our second-generation online backup service has been recognized for its excellence by one of the industry's premier publications," said Howard Marson, vice president of business development, Connected Corporation. "The Editors' Choice award is widely recognized as the holy grail of high tech honors, and winning it demonstrates the robustness and value of our online backup solution for desktop and mobile PCs."

Following comprehensive testing, PC Magazine describes Connected Online Backup 2.0 as "a thorough, sophisticated, and reasonably priced backup system." The article goes on to praise the software for its ease of setup, flexible network connection options, ease and flexibility of restoring files, and ability to act as a secure, remote file server by allowing users to grant access to and share files with other users.

About Connected Online Backup

Most companies today do not back up their personal computers; certainly laptops, but not even many LAN-connected desktop systems. This leaves each day's work exposed to potential loss unless employees spend the time and effort it takes to secure their own data.

Connected Online Backup delivers "best practices" backup and recovery with no time or effort required from the user or IT personnel. Connected's patent-pending Delta Block(TM) technology automatically tracks and saves only those portions of each file that change from day to day, rather than having to backup entire files every time they change. This unique capability significantly reduces network load and transmission time needed to perform daily automated backups and is superior to, and more secure than any other available backup method. Delta Block technology also affords Connected's mirrored, state of the art data centers to maintain an infinite number of previous versions of each user's data files, any or all of which can be automatically restored by the user themselves at any time, quickly and easily.

Connected Online Backup - Features -- Automated intelligent file selection for each incremental backup

-- Patent-pending Delta Block file comparison technology for backing up only the changed portions of each file, rather than entire files

-- 24 hour a day, 7 day a week automated file restore capability with average access times of 90 seconds or less, and access to every version of every file

-- 56-bit DES encryption of all files before they leave the user's system

-- Automated generation of CD-ROMs (containing all versions of a user's files) for large volume restores and permanent data archiving

-- Completely mirrored, state-of-the-art secure data centers with fault-tolerant operations

-- Ability to backup network drives and dedicated server space

-- Built-in file sharing capability that delivers much of what is provided by more complex dedicated remote access systems

-- Access to Connected's secure data centers via the Internet or Connected's nationwide private network with local dial access (over 400 POPs)

-- Robust connection management including automatic reconnect on line drop, restarting transfers from within a file, and automatic rerouting to the alternate data center if the primary center is busy

About Connected Corporation

Connected Corporation develops, markets and operates a suite of automated online PC support services which provide best industry practices while reducing the total cost of support for desktop and mobile PCs. Connected is a privately-held company founded in October of 1995. Company investors include venture backing from Hambrecht & Quist, Applied Technology, Inc., SOFTBANK Holdings Inc. and Solstice Capital. The company is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts with a sales office in Palo Alto, California, and can be reached on the Web at www.connected.com or toll free at 800-353-3078.

CONTACT: Copithorne & Bellows Connected Corporation

Lisa Hahn/Kristen Wiltse Howard Marson

(617) 450-4300 (508) 270-0035

lisa.hahn@cbpr.com howard@connected.com

kristen.wiltse@cbpr.com