LiveVault Wins Network Computing Editor's Choice Award for Online Backup Services

Business Wire, Oct 19, 2004

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. -- Superior Remote Management Capabilities and Simple Web Interface Propel LiveVault Online Backup and Recovery Service to Top of List

LiveVault Corporation(R) (www.livevault.com), the leading provider of disk-based online backup and recovery solutions for business servers, today announced that the LiveVault Online Backup and Recovery Service(TM) earned the Editor's Choice award for online backup services from Network Computing. LiveVault won the Editor's Choice award for its superior remote management capabilities, emergency user support, simple Web-based interface and advanced database and message-system backup.

Network Computing tested six online backup solutions at the NWC Real-World Labs in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Providers included Connected, Data Base File Tech Group, EVault, LiveVault, Pro-Softnet and Global Data Vault.

According to the article, "Data backup requires extreme consistency and commitment. Even the most diligent IT manager can be tempted to cut corners when faced with maintaining backups at remote and IT-support-challenged locations. We picked LiveVault as our Editor's Choice because we liked how its simple Web-based interface provided powerful remote-management capabilities and we thought it provided the most comprehensive user and database support."

Network Computing was impressed by LiveVault's experience in supporting reliable backups of remote servers, where access to IT staff is limited. LiveVault was also the only service that offers a totally Web-based management interface, allowing users to initiate restores from anywhere they have a Web connection. In addition, LiveVault was the only vendor to support continuous backup, where file changes are automatically transmitted offsite as they're created, reducing the amount of data lost in the event of a failure. To read the complete review, visit http://www.networkcomputing.com/showitem.jhtml?docid=1004f1.

"We are honored to win Network Computing's Editor's Choice award for online backup," said Bob Cramer, president and CEO of LiveVault. "This prestigious award recognizes the expertise and commitment of LiveVault's employees and partners, and affirms our vision that the LiveVault Online Backup and Recovery Service's easy, reliable, automatic data protection is the right product at the right time for companies with remote offices as well as small and medium businesses."

LiveVault works by automatically and continuously backing up business server data via a secure Internet connection and storing it in a secure, offsite facility, where it is available for immediate recovery. The LiveVault service is designed for small and mid-sized businesses, as well as remote offices of larger enterprises, that have primarily relied on in-house tape backups to protect their data. Analysts estimate nearly 50 percent of tape-based backups fail to restore correctly, which exposes these businesses to significant risk. In contrast, LiveVault guarantees recovery of all business-critical data and enables companies to return operations to the state they were in immediately prior to a data-loss event.

To find out how LiveVault can provide cost-effective data protection and disaster recovery for your business, please visit www.livevault.com, contact sales@livevault.com or call (800) 638-5518.

About LiveVault Corporation

LiveVault Corporation is the leading provider of fully managed, disk-based online data backup and recovery services. LiveVault automatically and continuously backs up server data, protects it offsite at a secure, remote facility, and makes it immediately available for recovery 24x7. Through its partnerships with IBM (NYSE: IBM), Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), BT (NYSE: BTY), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and others, LiveVault helps ensure the business continuity of small and mid-sized businesses, as well as distributed offices of larger enterprises. LiveVault is based in Marlborough, Mass. For more information visit www.livevault.com or call (508) 460-6670.

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