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BakBone to Introduce its Open Data Protection Platform with New Disk-Based Capabilities; BakBone to Debut New Disk-Based Solutions, Including Deduplication(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Reading, UK -- BakBone Software (OTCBB: BKBO), a leading provider of Universal Data Management solutions, will be unveiling its innovative Open Data Protection platform that will shift its traditional tape-based data protection and open the doors for new disk-based capabilities. As the needs of organisations worldwide change with new standards and tougher requirements, BakBone is evolving its solution set to fit these needs. With its new platform, BakBone will be enabling users to centralise their data protection operations under one pane of glass, even with third party applications, while offering these environments the ability to deduplicate their data using BakBone's technology or using third party deduplication technology. BakBone has traditionally offered data backup and recovery solutions that were primarily tape-based, with different Application Plugin Modules to protect certain applications. With its new Open Data Protection platform, BakBone will be offering organisations the ability to centralise their data protection operations to provide flexible deployment and management options that help customers deal with their continually growing data demands for both disk- and tape-based technologies. The shift to this new platform, which BakBone will begin to rollout later this Fall, enables the company to move into a new realm of data protection that includes data management and a full range of products that offer a complete solution for organisations of all sizes. Regardless of the current economic times, the sheer quantity of data continues to increase in corporate environments and is causing significant management problems for IT departments. The emergence and importance of applications like e-mail and other messaging systems creates specific compliance and control issues that require greater levels of data protection, retention and availability. By enhancing and replacing components of its virtual tape library with new products & technologies that work with third party applications, BakBone is putting more power into the hands of its users and helping them battle their growing data management problems with a single solution. Customers can leverage existing applications and infrastructure, resulting in fewer systems used to manage the same data multiple times. "As companies adapt to the economic challenges, increasing compliance demands and other factors that lead to largely increasing data volumes, BakBone is adapting with them," said Jeff Drescher, VP of Marketing, BakBone. "Our new Open Data Protection platform builds on our current solutions, offering a way to centralise data protection by integrating with all data protection applications in an environment. With the changing time and increasing demands, BakBone is committed to delivering the technology to help our customers with all of their data needs." Going forward, BakBone will be bringing multiple releases to the market around its new platform and continues to push its product suite to new levels and into new territory. "In the past our strengths were simplicity, ease-of-use, reliable data protection and recovery technologies that we offered across heterogeneous platforms," added Drescher. "By all means, we will still continue to offer this to the market, but we're opening up our technology and evolving away from just being another typical backup player and into a data protection platform that offers much more than just a backup and recovery solution. BakBone's combined suite of disk-based data protection solutions will allow customers to flexibly protect and make their most critical server and application data available, regardless of whether the data resides in physical, virtual or cloud environments." BakBone's new Open Data Protection platform comes on the heels of the company's latest release of the disk-based NetVault: FastRecover solutions. NetVault: FASTRecover provides disk-based, real-time data protection capabilities for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Windows file servers, while giving users the power of extremely fast recovery to any point in time. Customers can recover protected data to an alternate physical server or virtual machine in as fast as 30 seconds with FASTRecover's Virtual On Demand Recovery (VODR) technology. NetVault: FASTRecover enables this enterprise-class functionality at compelling price points unseen in the market before. To learn more about disk-to-disk backup, read BakBone's whitepaper, "A Comparison of Disk-Based Data Protection Techniques." About BakBone Software BakBone Software is a leader in Universal Data Management. This provides a data-centric approach to integrating data protection, centralising policy management and managing organisations' messaging infrastructure to optimise performance, increase data availability and improve corporate compliance. Learn more about BakBone's Universal Data Management vision at www.bakbone.com or e-mail [email protected]. BakBone, BakBone Software, NetVault, Application Plugin Module, BakBone logo, Integrated  Data Protection, NetVault: SmartDisk, Asempra, FASTRecover, ColdSpark and SparkEngine are all trademarks or registered trademarks of BakBone Software, Inc., in the United States and/or in other countries. 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