NovaStor's NovaNET 10 Scales to Heights and Delivers Increased Functionality

Market Wire, October, 2006

NovaStor, a leading provider of data availability and protection solutions, launched the latest version of their network backup solution NovaNET. With the NovaNET 10 Service Pack 2B release, NovaStor introduces several new benefits for new and existing customers and has done away with any scalability limitations that were present in past releases.

NovaNET's modular design allows corporations to "pay as they grow" at the speed of their requirements whether it's a small office with a single server or a large enterprise which employs multiple servers in mixed OS environments. NovaNET 10, Service Pack 2B scales past any previous NovaNET version and provides much greater flexibility with regards to backup options.

The base Master Server package now comes standard with 8 TB of disk backup support compared to 500GB in the previous version. There is also a new Advanced Server option available, which for the first time offers support for large server enterprise environments scaling beyond the old limitation of 20 servers and 3.5TB in a single defined zone. This new release also includes built in support for backing up open files utilizing Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) technology and a plug-in that supports continuous disk backups utilizing Microsoft's Data Protection Manager technology.

"With the release of Service Pack 2B, NovaNET now provides our customers the flexibility to backup unlimited amounts of critical business data," says Mike Andrews, Executive VP Sales at NovaStor. "NovaNET's modular design makes it an economical one stop solution for any size corporation."

About NovaStor

NovaStor ( www.novastor.com ) is a leading, international provider of software solutions for data availability and protection. NovaStor provides software and services for the backup, restore and retention of business-critical data which together cover a wide application area -- ranging from home, mobile users, SMB users, all the way through Enterprise users, globally. NovaStor's cost-effective solutions are platform- and hardware-independent and ensure that optimal technological and economical use is gained from the customer's existing and future IT environment.

NovaStor is headquartered in Switzerland (Rotkreuz), has offices in Germany (Hamburg) and the USA (Simi Valley), and is represented in numerous other countries through partnerships. The NovaStor shares are listed in the Prime Standard on the Frankfurt stock exchange (WKN 657221).

For Further Information: NovaStor Corp. Mike Andrews 80-B West Cochran Street Simi Valley, CA 93065, USA Tel.: 1 (0)805 579 6700 Fax: 1 (0)805 579 6710 Email Contact NovaStor Software AG Claudia Schumacher Grundstrasse 12 CH-6343 Rotkreuz Tel.: 41 (0)41 798 33 55 Fax: 41 (0)41 798 33 99 Email Contact