BakBone and Network Appliance Team to Bring Heterogeneous Disk-Based Data Protection Solutions; BakBone First to Provide an Integrated Management Application

Business Wire, Feb 18, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2003

BakBone Software(TM) (OTCBB:BKBOF) (TSX:BKB) today announced a strategic co-development and marketing agreement with Network Appliance (Nasdaq:NTAP), a leading provider of enterprise network storage solutions.

Through this agreement, BakBone will integrate its NetVault(TM) data recovery software with Network Appliance(TM) SnapVault(TM) software, enabling customers to consolidate their backup infrastructures for greater management ease and flexibility, providing them with a more robust data protection solution.

This collaborative solution helps fundamentally shift the way companies protect data in today's enterprise by offering a faster, simpler, standards-based, disk solution for heterogeneous storage and computer environments.

The agreement is a result of both companies' commitment to an open and collaborative business model, emphasizing delivery of high-performance, reliable, interoperable data protection solutions based on industry standards. BakBone is the first company to provide an integrated management application for SnapVault that is capable of managing the entire disk-to-disk-to-tape backup and restore process.

Additional details on NetApp SnapVault are available in a separate press release issued by Network Appliance today.

"Today's enterprises demand reliable, easy-to-manage, and secure data protection solutions that can power their distributed organizations. BakBone and Network Appliance are working closely together to solve customers' needs with solutions that are tightly integrated, easy to manage, and flexible for maximum simplicity, performance, and reliability," said Mark Santora, senior vice president of marketing at Network Appliance. "Together, Network Appliance and BakBone offer a complete data protection solution that's designed to leverage legacy storage investments, protect enterprise data assets, maintain business continuity, and lower IT

cost."

"Together BakBone and Network Appliance are working closely to broaden the reach of SnapVault in the market," said Keith Rickard, president and CEO of BakBone Software. "Our complementary technologies will enable customers to streamline their distributed backup operations with an integrated solution that shares a key value proposition -- products that are powerful yet easy to deploy. BakBone Software and Network Appliance's relationship has grown from mutual successes based on industry standards. We're excited that this co-development will help fulfill our mission to deliver the best range of data recovery solutions to customers today."

About Network Appliance

Network Appliance is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has delivered technology, product and partner firsts that continue to drive the evolution of storage. Information about Network Appliance solutions and services is available at www.netapp.com.

About BakBone Software

BakBone Software is an international storage management software company that develops and globally distributes high-performance software solutions to the network storage and open systems markets. BakBone's backup and restore software provides scalable data protection from the workgroup to the enterprise. Founded in 2000, BakBone Software's products are used by companies worldwide, and are distributed through a network of OEMs and solution providers.

BakBone's corporate headquarters is located at 10145 Pacific Heights Boulevard, San Diego, California 92121. Its stock is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. For more information on BakBone products, call 866/484-2663, e-mail sales@bakbone.com or access BakBone's Web site at www.bakbone.com.

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