America's Top Colleges, Universities and Research Institutes Enroll in DriveSavers New Education Partner Program

Business Wire, Sept 27, 2007

University of Pennsylvania Benefits From Program as DriveSavers Rescues Six Years of Irreplaceable Research Data

NOVATO, Calif. -- DriveSavers, the worldwide leader in data recovery services, announced today that the company launched its first Education Partner Program with over 100 of the United States' top colleges, universities and research institutions currently enrolled. The program is designed to provide educational institutions, professors, teachers and students a cost-effective, reliable and secure solution to recovering data from all storage devices. Recently, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania benefited from DriveSavers services when they nearly lost the data from an experiment that took six years to construct.

The scientists were seeking answers to some of the most important questions regarding the formation and evolution of stars, galaxies and star clusters. The six-year project called BLAST (Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope) took place at a remote station in Antarctica where an unmanned balloon carrying a powerful space telescope floated into the stratosphere to gather data. The data from the space telescope's readings was stored on a standard 200GB hard drive. At the end of the balloon's 11-day flight, the balloon lost altitude and dragged the telescope 120 miles over icy tundra and ultimately crashed. After an amazing rescue of the hard drive, the scientists were devastated to learn that the hard drive would not boot up. The badly damaged drive was delivered to DriveSavers, where engineers in a Class 100 cleanroom, a dust-free environment 10,000 times cleaner than normal office air, were able to rebuild the entire data set to perfection.

"Six years of work would have gone down the tubes and our research would have stopped if we hadn't gotten the data back using DriveSavers Data Recovery Services," said University of Pennsylvania scientist Mark Devlin. "Now, we can analyze the data, continue our research and share our discoveries with the rest of the world."

Many other educational institutions are currently benefiting from DriveSavers Education Partner Program including: Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, John Hopkins University, Purdue University, Rutgers University, Stanford University, Texas A&M University and University of Connecticut.

DriveSavers offers these elite partners special discounts, enhanced services, superior high security, volume discounts and 24/7 access to data recovery specialists.

DriveSavers Education Partner Program offers the following benefits:

SAVINGS

* NEW! Volume Discounts

* All locations worldwide

* No data--No charge

* NEW! Free return shipping

SERVICE

* Fastest Standard turnaround time in the industry

* Data Recovery Specialists answer your calls in 5 rings or less

* NEW! Expanded hours--worldwide access 24/7

* Direct access to Data Recovery Engineers when desired

* NEW! Free training on data recovery "best practices"

* NEW! Free quarterly newsletter with best practices and data recovery tips

SECURITY

* Certified engineers are experts in recovering data from encrypted drives

* High Security Services adhere to US Government security protocols

* NEW! Self-defending network guards against day-zero attacks

* Data destruction upon request

* Customized programs to meet all security standards

* Data Express[TM] service for instant and secure Internet transmission of recovered data

* Government Contract Benefits for Education Institutions

* For educational institutions that are funded by the US government, the US General Services Administration (GSA) provides additional benefits and discounts for using GSA Schedule Contractors. DriveSavers has been a GSA contractor for several years (#GS-35F-0121S) and can provide discounts as directed by GSA.

To join this program or learn more about DriveSavers, please visit www.drivesavers.com or call 800.440.1904.

About DriveSavers

DriveSavers is the worldwide leader in data recovery services and is considered "the superheroes of the digital world." For more than 20 years, businesses and consumers have depended on DriveSavers for the fastest and most reliable data recovery service in the industry. Our sophisticated network security environment adheres to U.S. Government security protocol, ensuring our customers' data is safe. DriveSavers is recommend by all major computer makers and authorized by hard drive manufacturers to open factory-sealed drives without voiding the warranty. Our customers are leading organizations in diverse markets worldwide including Bank of America, Hughes Aircraft, Lucasfilm, Google, NASA, Harvard University, Stanford University and The Rolling Stones. For more information, visit www.drivesavers.com.