Fox Sports Australia Scores Best-in-Class Data Protection with Atempo Time Navigator; Time Navigator Cuts Tape Restoration Time and Reduces the Cost of Customer's Offsite Tape Storage

Business Wire, August 16, 2006

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Atempo, Inc., the leader in data protection and storage security for trusted information lifecycle management (ILM), today announced that Fox Sports Australia has selected Atempo Time Navigator to protect their enterprise data that is spread across multiple databases and operating systems. Fox Sports Australia offers the most relevant, comprehensive, live and exclusive coverage of sports on Australian television, featuring over nine hours of live sports every day. With Time Navigator, Fox Sports backs up approximately 500 GB on a daily basis. Time Navigator minimizes Fox Sports' tape backup and recovery windows, and has considerably cut down on the costs of offsite tape storage because of the software's ability to easily consolidate massive amounts of data.

As Fox Sports' IT department expanded into the production side of the business, they actively sought a data protection solution that could integrate seamlessly with the company's existing IT infrastructure, while providing high performance backup and recovery. "We run a complex, heterogeneous datacenter and it's imperative that our backup system is a team player. Our IT department found Time Navigator easy to use and the Atempo technical staff helpful, knowledgeable and friendly," said Paul Slowey, technology manager at Fox Sports. "Ultimately, we chose Atempo's Time Navigator because it supports all the databases we use -- Oracle, SQL, Sybase and DB2 -- and our multiple operating systems."

"Atempo Time Navigator is very well-suited to helping our customers in the broadcast and film industries cost-effectively manage the tremendously large volumes of data characteristic of these industries. From Time Navigator's user interface, customers easily control the lifecycle of data created by media production, post production broadcasting, animation and advertising," said Stephen Terlizzi, vice president of global marketing at Atempo.

Atempo Time Navigator is a secure data protection and archival solution for heterogeneous environments. It enables easy management of enterprise data throughout its lifecycle. Time Navigator's rich feature set includes point-in-time recovery management, advanced security tools, unlimited scalability, and extensive platform and application support. The product's graphical user interface makes it easy to manage snapshots, replication, disk and tape backups, archival and recovery operations in addition to simplifying the management of multiple servers and remote sites. Time Navigator combines the best of data protection and storage security to enable corporations to meet critical business requirements for digital privacy, regulatory compliance, and non-repudiated long-term archiving.

About Atempo

Atempo is the leader in trusted information lifecycle management (ILM), a data management framework that automatically matches the level of data protection and security to information's value over its lifecycle. Atempo enables customers to meet critical business requirements from the desktop to the enterprise with innovative, award-winning products that encompass data recovery management, storage security, continuous data protection (CDP), non-repudiated long-term archiving and regulatory compliance. Founded in 1992, Atempo has more than 2700 customers worldwide, with a sales and support network exceeding 100 resellers. The company's dual headquarters are in Palo Alto, Calif., and Paris, France. Learn more about Atempo and its "Trusted ILM" vision at www.atempo.com.

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