Report Focuses on Storactive's LiveBackup for Continuous Data Protection

Storactive® Inc., the leader in continuous data protection technology, today announced that IDC, a leading provider of global IT research and advice, has published the report "Storactive LiveBackup: Delivering Real-Time Data Protection." The report is an in-depth analysis of LiveBackup, a true real-time data protection solution designed to back up and centralize distributed laptop and desktop data, and Storactive's market strategy. In the end, IDC predicts that the backup and replication markets will converge in the future, and the demand for real-time data protection will increase.

"Given the trend of convergence of backup and replication, we see opportunities for growth in products like Storactive's LiveBackup that combine continuous or near-continuous real-time data protection with the ability to recover to a previous point in time," said Michelle Zou, IDC research analyst, Storage Software.

A continuous data protection solution benefit users by saving the most current file version as well as prior versions available for regulatory compliance, supports user-initiated data recovery and provides transparent server and PC data protection. Further, these technologies represent the first stages in the convergence of backup and replication, and provide improved data protection and more rapid recovery than traditional tape backup solutions.

The report discusses the drawbacks of traditional scheduled backups that only occur at pre-scheduled times leaving data vulnerable between backups and consumes network bandwidth. It goes on to focus on LiveBackup and how the technology overcomes these drawbacks by using event-driven delta replication to provide real-time backups and fast recovery for Windows desktops and laptops. In addition, the increasing demand to address regulatory compliance issues may bring opportunities for products that can backup and protect data in a cost effective way and work with record and document management software to satisfy data retrieval requirements.

"Vast amounts of data reside on desktops leaving this data exposed to data loss due to user errors, system failures, virus/cyber attacks and other threats," said Tony Bautista, president of Storactive. "Storactive LiveBackup is the only client-server, real-time backup software to transparently deliver automatic data backup, reliable end-user file recovery, and easy disaster recovery for distributed laptop and desktop PCs."

LiveBackup is the industry's only client-server backup software that provides continuous data protection for corporate workstation and mobile system data. The robust, transparent backup and reliable file, system and disaster recovery is ideal for Windows laptop and desktop PCs. LiveBackup automatically and transparently backs up and centralizes distributed laptop and desktop data, restores data as recent as the last save and reverses the effects of virus attacks. The technology delivers self-serve file recovery for end-users to lighten the IT burden, system rollback to restore downed systems to functional checkpoints, bare-metal disaster recovery imaging, and redundancy elimination to minimize impact on network performance.

The October 2004 report is written by Michelle Zou, Frederick W. Broussard, Bill North and Rhoda Phillips. The Document number is 31993 and can be purchased directly from IDC at: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=31993

About Storactive

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Marina del Rey, Calif., Storactive, Inc. is the leader in developing true continuous data protection (CDP) software for Windows PCs and Exchange Servers. The Company's flagship technology continuously backs up and manages enterprise and distributed data throughout its entire life cycle, even as changes occur. This means stored information is always current and can be recovered up to the moment of data loss. For more information about Storactive and its products, call (310) 302-7280, email info@storactive.com or visit www.storactive.com.

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