SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - November 6, 2001 - BakBone Software™ (TSE: BKB), a global provider of storage management software, announced today its membership in the EMC E-Infostructure™ Developers Program. In addition, BakBone will qualify EMC's CLARiiON® IP4700 and FC4700 information storage systems with its NetVault™ NDMP APM™ and engage in joint marketing activities to support the solutions.

Through the EMC E-Infostructure Developers Program, EMC provides wide-scale access to its application programming interfaces (APIs), which are software paths into its Enterprise Storage systems and software. The program enables independent software developers to select from, and rapidly integrate, a large variety of information management, sharing and protection tools. By sharing its APIs with application vendors such as BakBone, EMC helps customers take full advantage of the leading performance, availability and management features of EMC solutions, while eliminating costly, time-consuming customized application creation.

"EMC's ongoing commitment to interoperability extends to our partners in the E-Infostructure Developers Program," said Linda Wright, Senior Director of Global Alliances at EMC. "As a member of the program, BakBone will work closely with EMC to integrate our technologies to help provide customers with interoperable, comprehensive solutions for networked storage systems and software. It is integral for EMC to work with partners such as BakBone to lower our customers' total cost of ownership with integrated solutions."

"BakBone recognizes the requirements of the enterprise for storage management software that interoperates with a variety of applications and storage systems. The increasing requirement for central management of SAN, DAS, and NAS systems validates BakBone's strategy of offering modular backup and restore software that adapts and scales across the data center," said Randy Batterson, Vice President of Strategic Alliances for BakBone Software. "We are delighted to partner with EMC on these important storage issues."

About BakBone Software, Inc.

BakBone Software™ (TSE: BKB) is an international storage management software company that develops and distributes high-performance software solutions to the network storage and open systems markets. BakBone's near-line archival and backup/restore software suites provide scalable data protection from the workgroup to the enterprise. Founded in 2000, BakBone Software's products are used by companies worldwide, and are distributed through a network of OEMs and solution providers.

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 (866) 484-2663, e-mail sales@bakbone.com, or access BakBone's web site at www.bakbone.com.

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