Dantz Retrospect Named `World-Class Winner' by Network World Magazine; Company's Backup Software Touted for Speed, Convenience, Easy Management

Business Wire, May 1, 2002

Business Editors

ORINDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2002

Dantz Development Corporation, a premier provider of backup software, had the "World-Class Winner" designation bestowed upon its Retrospect Server product by Network World in an April 22 article entitled, "Dantz's Retrospect Server Edition: A New Twist to Windows Backup."

"By taking cataloged snapshots of aggregate data, Retrospect creates its own back-up filing system that combines for speed, convenience and easy management, giving us good reason to designate it a World-Class product," said article author Tom Henderson, principal researcher for ExtremeLabs of Indianapolis. Dantz's Retrospect Server Edition 5.6 received a total score of 4.55 out of a maximum of 5.

Calling Retrospect's methodology "unique," Henderson praised the software's speed and ease of use. He found Retrospect to be easy to install and restoring groups of files or an entire volume simple. Henderson also touted Retrospect's ability to perform speedy backup and restore operations.

"By earning the distinct honor of `World Class Winner' Network World further validates our strong backup solution for the small to mid-size enterprise market," said Tony Barbagallo, vice president of marketing at Dantz. "Our suite of Retrospect backup products are proven and efficient while delivering the performance, reliability and 100 percent restore accuracy companies are looking for to protect their business-critical information."

Retrospect Server Backup supported all of the writeable media in the testing lab, including tape drives, autochangers, CD-RW, DVD-RAM and other devices. Testing was performed on a Windows 2000 Advanced Server and a Windows 98SE PC using a variety of tape drives and CD-RW drives.

Network World is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.nwfusion.com.

About Dantz

Dantz Development Corporation is a leading worldwide provider of backup software. Since 1984, the Dantz Retrospect family of backup products has earned numerous awards for protecting business critical information on servers, desktops and notebooks. The company's patented technologies provide the reliability and efficiency that companies depend upon for business continuance. Customers of Dantz include small and medium size businesses, as well as workgroups and departments of larger companies, including British Telecom, Daimler Chrysler, Motorola, Nortel, Pixar and Walt Disney. Dantz is a privately held company located in Orinda, Calif. and backed by leading venture capital firms Mobius Venture Capital, ARCH Venture Partners and Madrona Venture Group. For more information, please visit www.dantz.com or call 1 925/253-3000.

Note to Editors: Retrospect is a registered trademark of Dantz Development Corporation. All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.