BakBone Announces Expanded Relationship with Tech Data U.S. - Including Distribution of All BakBone Products

Business Wire,  June 24, 2008  

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Distribution of the Complete BakBone Product Line through Leading IT Products Distributor Provides One-Stop Shopping for VARs and Solution Providers

SAN DIEGO -- BakBone Software([R]) (Pink Sheets:BKBO), the leading provider of heterogeneous integrated data protection solutions, today announced that it has expanded its distribution relationship with leading IT products distributor Tech Data Corporation to include the entire BakBone product line. With this extension, authorized VARs can now easily sell the entire award-winning BakBone product line through Tech Data's Advanced Infrastructure Solutions (AIS) Division.

Tech Data's AIS Division supports VARs delivering a wide range of data center solutions to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies nationwide. The addition of the entire BakBone product line further strengthens Tech Data AIS Division's specialized, high-end data protection solutions offering, enabling VARs and solution providers to more efficiently deploy all BakBone products.

"BakBone's relationship with Tech Data and its AIS Division has certainly provided us with greater opportunities to introduce NetVault: Backup to key partners who acquire their data protection solutions from distribution leader Tech Data," said Ken Horner, senior vice president, Corporate Development and Strategy, BakBone. "This expanded relationship clearly demonstrates our continued commitment to the channel. Tech Data's leadership in providing VARs with versatile data center solutions makes them an excellent partner for BakBone."

"Tech Data's AIS Division is focused on helping VARs deploy the latest data center technologies and high-end applications critical to today's businesses," said Amy Belcher, director of Product Marketing, Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Division. "Backup and data protection solutions like the NetVault: Backup series are a perfect example. End users of all sizes are looking to their data center VARs for assurance that vital information assets are protected and easily restored in case of natural disaster or other systems outage."

About Tech Data's Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Division

AIS combines a high-touch, consultative sales approach with the distributor's extensive technical expertise and broad product knowledge to help resellers capitalize on the demand for mid-market and enterprise-level server, storage and software solutions. Through partner enablement training initiatives and dedicated, expert resources, the division will focus on helping VARs develop a profitable, strategic approach to selling high-end data centers utilizing industry-standard solutions. To learn more about the AIS Division's business continuity solutions call (800) 237-8931, ext. 82083, or visit www.techdata.com.

About BakBone Software, Inc.

BakBone is committed to making data protection a simple, straightforward process while delivering its Integrated Data Protection (IDP) strategy through an award-winning product suite. This suite provides unprecedented capabilities not only to protect critical data - but more importantly, to ensure the availability of that data as well. BakBone's products offer a single point of control for managing resources across all platforms, providing improved operational efficiency, reduced system downtime, improved availability and enhanced security to support the business growth of enterprise environments. Thousands of users worldwide leverage BakBone's IDP approach to simplify the management of multi-platform environments with a portfolio of backup, disaster recovery, replication and storage reporting solutions for Linux, Windows, Unix and Mac OS environments. These scalable data protection solutions address the demands of Global 5000 organizations and are distributed through a worldwide network of select OEM partners, strategic partners, resellers and solution providers. BakBone is headquartered in San Diego, Calif. For more information about BakBone, visit www.bakbone.com or email info@bakbone.com.

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