Storactive Becomes a Founding Member in SNIA's Continuous Data Protection Special Interest Group

Market Wire, February, 2005

Storactive® Inc., the leader in continuous data protection (CDP) technology, will participate in the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) CDP Special Interest Group. Storactive, in partnership with other CDP vendors in the SNIA Data Management Forum, will play a major role in establishing the foundation for the CDP market space. This includes standardizing terminology, establishing technical requirements and delivering educational programs about CDP to the IT community. As a member of the CDP Special Interest Group, Storactive will directly contribute to the vital groundwork necessary to shape this new genre of data protection and establish long-standing industry guidelines.

"We are honored to contribute our knowledge and experience in the CDP market to the SNIA's new CDP Special Interest Group," said Tony Bautista, president of Storactive. "Storactive has been at the forefront of CDP technology since 1998, and we are looking forward to this new opportunity to engage with other CDP vendors in mutually beneficial discussions about industry-wide standards."

"The formation of the CDP Special Interest Group is an outstanding example of how the SNIA is committed to focusing the development community on contemporary business issues to solve customer needs, and is the authoritative source for market education, best practices and standards," said Michael Peterson, program director for the SNIA Data Management Forum. "Continuous data protection is a strategic business continuity solution that adds great value to any company's data protection methods and ILM processes. The CDP Special Interest Group will focus on the teaching and educating of standards that will advance the adoption of these solutions."

Storactive specializes in real-time, continuous data protection for Windows PCs and Microsoft Exchange Servers. Customers from the government sector to biotech, retail, automotive, education, high tech and the financial industry, rely on Storactive's software to ensure zero data loss. Storactive LiveServ for Microsoft Exchange Servers is disk-to-disk backup software that provides continuous data protection and rapid, zero-loss recovery of individual messages, mailboxes and entire data stores. Storactive LiveBackup provides real-time, continuous data protection for distributed laptop, desktop and mobile PCs. It features fast and reliable file, system and disaster recovery tools and data compression for enterprise scalability.

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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