POOLE, UNITED KINGDOM - May 8, 2001 - BakBone Software™, Inc. (TSE: BKB, OTC: BKBOF), a global provider of next generation storage management software, today announced that it has entered into business partnerships with twelve storage-centric channel partners across the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) marketplace for NetVault™, BakBone's flagship backup/restore software product.

"Today's announcement underlines BakBone's position as a global influencer in the storage management software market and emphasizes its strong dedication to a channel-centric sales model," said Andrew Unsworth, BakBone's managing director for EMEA. "We are committed to the channel and will continue to make significant advances into the European marketplace through our key business partners."

Paul Milner, Enterprise Solutions Group product manager from Ideal Hardware commented, "We are very happy to have entered into a distribution agreement with BakBone. Our goal is to provide powerful storage management solutions that deliver exceptional value to our customers, while allowing us to effectively and efficiently support them; that's why we have decided to add NetVault into our product portfolio for our resellers."

Across the EMEA marketplace, BakBone has entered into agreements with the following channel partners:

• Ideal Hardware - UK
• NCE Group - UK
• Fortuna - UK
• TIM AG - Germany
• IT Options - Denmark
• eStore - Netherlands
• IT Data - Netherlands
• Functional IT - Netherlands
• DataStore AG - Switzerland
• TechnoScan - Sweden
• Alstor - Poland
• New Knowledge Distribution - South Africa

Selling through two-tier distribution and also through a one-tier system integrator model in the EMEA marketplace, BakBone will build on its success in North America where more than three dozen business partners have been signed to date. "We are delighted to have signed up twelve of the main storage centric channel players in EMEA. The high-profit model, and faster time-to-deployment capabilities that set us apart from competitors, together with our exclusive SAN/NAS convergence feature set, will help our partners make significant inroads into the network storage market in EMEA. The clearly defined ROI that NetVault brings customers will provide a significant base for our partners to grow their businesses rapidly," commented Tony Cerqueira, BakBone's chief executive officer.

Storage is becoming more networked, and the result is tremendous complexity from existing, first generation solutions. BakBone provides a new generation of software that seamlessly melds server storage with network storage. The result is powerful performance and robust functionality throughout the entire product lifecycle, with unparalleled speed for installation and deployment, not offered by any competitor. , BakBone's channel partners can now sell a solution that is installed in a matter of minutes or hours instead of days or weeks, an increased benefit to both partners and their end-user customers.

BakBone's NetVault features the ability to easily manage the most intensive backup, restore and archiving functions across a wide range of computer platforms including Windows NT/2000, Linux and UNIX. Furthermore, BakBone Software is the only company worldwide to ship solutions that span critical storage management functionalities and combines powerful performance with unprecedented ease of use across the widest range of storage topologies, from direct-attached storage to network-attached storage (NAS) and ultimately to storage area networks (SAN) and IP storage.

"Our resellers' customers require constant access to their data and applications. If they lose that access, they stand to lose significant business. More importantly, they need to address future growth needs with "Network Storage Ready" solutions, so they can turn it on when the time comes. NetVault makes it easy for them to do so," added Sascha Waldhecker, at distributor TIM AG in Germany.

"Our customers here in South Africa need to have a storage management solution that will grow with them. NetVault demonstrates its ability to do this through its scalability. We can now reassure our customers that NetVault will protect any amount of data and will work for them today and in the future. That is a compelling argument for our end-users," stated James Hyslop, managing director at New Knowledge Distribution in South Africa.

"We need to assure our customers that there is a reliable backup/restore solution that can cope with the data explosion whatever the operating system, whatever the storage topology. NetVault meets those needs," added John Greenwood, sales manager at NCE Group in the UK.

Available in the EMEA region exclusively through its twelve channel partners, configurations for NetVault 6.03 for Windows NT/2000/Linux begin at £995. Other UNIX versions begin at £3725.

About BakBone Software, Inc.

BakBone Software™ (TSE: BKB, OTC: BKBOF) is an international storage management software company that develops and globally distributes high-performance storage management solutions to the open systems markets. BakBone's near-line archive and backup/restore software suites provide scalable data protection from the workgroup to the enterprise. Founded in 1999, BakBone Software's products are now used by companies worldwide, and are distributed through a network of OEMs, system integrators and VARs.

BakBone's corporate headquarters is located at 10145 Pacific Heights Boulevard, San Diego, California 92121. Its stock is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and is included on the TSE 300 Composite, S&P/TSE Canadian SmallCap and TSE 200 indices. For more information on BakBone products, call 858-450-9009, e-mail sales@bakbone.com, or access BakBone's web site at www.bakbone.com.

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