Announces Strategic Alliance with NCR; Expands NetVault as Teradata Backup Software Option

Business Wire, Sept 25, 2000

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SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000

BakBone Software (TSE:BKB.)(OTCBB:BKBOF), a premier provider of storage management software solutions, today announced a strategic alliance, under which NCR will offer BakBone's NetVault(TM) storage management software to users of NCR's Teradata(R) database.

Teradata is the database of choice for mid-to-very large data warehouse environments that require ad hoc and multi-user query performance and scalability. "NetVault software has repeatedly proven itself as storage management software capable of protecting the largest amounts of corporate-critical data," said Vickie Farrell, Teradata Marketing Vice President. "Its flexible capabilities, combined with its unparalleled ease of use, ensures that the information stored in Teradata-based warehouses will be there whenever our customers need it. And in today's 24/7 e-business economy," she continued, "that mandates constant availability."

Tony Cerqueira, BakBone's CEO, said the agreement confirms a long-standing relationship between NetVault and NCR. "NCR customers worldwide have relied on NetVault to help them guarantee that their data is safe in traditional client/server environments. Now those same capabilities are being made available for the Teradata Warehouse customers. Firms choosing Teradata do so because of its scalability and high availability implementation. It provides a unique, high performance environment for running a true enterprise data warehouse. The Teradata/NetVault combination provides a proven solution to companies that cannot afford to take chances with the data needed to make sure their business stays in business."

About NetVault

NetVault is centralized enterprise storage management software, featuring the ability to easily manage the most intensive backup, restore and archiving functions across a wide range of computer platforms. NetVault's scalable, advanced modular architecture operates across distributed heterogeneous client/server and multi-user environments, and is specifically designed for the next generation of network storage applications, such as storage area networks (SANs), as well as today's requirements. NetVault addresses the needs of every data center today. From workgroup environments to enterprise-level Fibre Channel storage area networking, NetVault has the capability needed to solve today's storage needs, and easily scales to meet the demands of future growth.

NetVault creates a new benchmark for simplicity and ease of use, breaking the frustrating bottleneck of traditional storage management solutions. They can be maddeningly complex to install, often taking up to several days to implement, due to the design complexity of configuration, device setup and multiple management utilities. With NetVault, these same requirements can now be finished within minutes and hours, rather than days and weeks, providing users with a significant time and cost advantage. The streamlined, easy-to-use software provides a simplified method of installation, auto detection of devices for easy configuration, advanced scheduling options and on-line help screens that are unparalleled in today's storage management environments.

NetVault's modular architecture features:

-    Point-and-click application plug-in modules (APM(TM)) for
     seamless interfacing with databases such as Teradata,
     Oracle, Informix, Sybase and SAP
-    DirecSAN(TM), a NetVault exclusive, that enables data to
     bypass backup servers on a SAN, dramatically simplifying the
     process, reducing potential bottlenecks associated with
     SAN-based backup and maximizing both performance and return
     on investment;
-    Modular Software Architecture; and
-    Scaleable device support for expanding the number of tape
     drives, libraries and slots.

These features ensure that customers have constant access to the mission-critical knowledge needed to run their business. As technology and software advances occur, NetVault rapidly integrates new applications and support quickly through a plug-in based architecture, without the need to modify its core component. This provides users with the assurance that the solution they implement today will grow with them as their data storage needs escalate.

About BakBone Software, Inc.

BakBone Software(TM) (TSE:BKB.) (OTC:BKBOF) is an international storage management software company that develops and globally distributes industry-leading storage management solutions to the open systems markets, providing data protection and management solutions scalable from office to enterprise that will grow with a company's needs.

BakBone's NetVault(TM) storage management software is designed to provide unparalleled robustness, and unmatched data protection and recovery to meet the challenges of today's computing infrastructures. NetVault's comprehensive but easy to use features include versatile modular design, advanced SAN support and specialized on-line application backup. The very core of the product is designed with high bandwidth data transfers in mind and designed to ensure that performance is not compromised.