SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - April 15, 2003 - BakBone Software, Inc., a global provider of storage management software, announced today the release of the latest version of their flagship product, NetVault 7. BakBone’s NetVault 7 provides improved scalability, increased automation and enhanced administrator productivity for the enterprise market while providing a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and ease of use in NAS and SAN centric storage environments.

NetVault 7.0 Key Features:

• Advanced policy management and event notification provides data management that leverages multiple protection options with various recovery time characteristics.
  
  
• User Level Access allows NetVault administrators to safely extend control of NetVault to other end users. Granular support allows NetVault administrators to accommodate a wide range of user skill sets while notification linkage ensures critical events alerting the appropriate personnel.
  
  
• Advanced Reporting provides the ability to produce reports on all aspects of the NetVault system including job execution, media utilization and system operations. No other product offers the comprehensive reporting capabilities for its backup and recovery operations. In addition to the twenty-nine pre-defined reports, users can define their own reports including powerful correlations from NetVault’s data gathering engine.
  
  
• It is designed for performance and adaptability. NetVault’s modular architecture helps ensure data protection goals in two key ways. First it optimizes workloads for customers’ environments. Secondly, BakBone’s modularity means that the NetVault's core and all of its plug-ins can be developed independently of each other, ensuring the fastest adaptations for new platforms, operating systems and databases as required by customers.
  
  
• Dynamically adapting graphical user interface (GUI). NetVault 7 automatically morphs the backup and recovery commands and icons for any application it discovers on the network into the GUI. It will even add its advanced options to that application’s look and feel. With NetVault 7’s GUI, user familiarity is preserved while productivity and data protection is enhanced.
  
  
• It offers a solution that dramatically lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) by automating device discovery and configuration across the most complex SAN & NAS environments.
  
  
• No other product in the industry matches NetVault’s ease of deployment. It requires no professional services to install or deploy, helping to manage costs while ensuring the rapidest implementations to meet customers data protection goals.
  
  
• It is scalable and robust for the largest enterprises, yet flexible enough for small businesses – all within the same product.
  
  
• Client Encryption is available as an option that utilizes 128-bit ECB encryption mode for another layer of data security.

“NetVault 7 represents a significant milestone in our company in many ways. We believe it is the most advanced data protection offering available in the market today. NetVault 7 combines rich features with unprecedented ease of use and speed to deploy. It represents the vehicle with which we will be driving increased market share and revenue growth,” said Keith Rickard, president and CEO, BakBone.

"It is hard to imagine a more critical issue for corporate IT departments than improving the overall effectiveness of their data protection systems. Innovations such as the intelligent library capabilities of ADIC’s new iPlatform architecture and the new features being built into this new NetVault backup software release will make IT managers’ jobs easier and make their data safer." Kevin Honeycutt, Executive Director, Enterprise Partners, ADIC

“The NetVault 7.0 software, combined with our STORcore server, provides customers substantial value in the management of TCO for email infrastructures,” said Tim Wudi, President and CEO for AttachSTOR Inc., BakBone’s partner for Email Resource Management solutions. “Our combined offering provides a seamless email optimization solution with flexible enterprise storage options for our customers."

"DataCore and BakBone continue to work together to ease the challenges associated with data protection and recovery in heterogeneous storage deployments," said Kimberly French, director, business and channel development at DataCore. "NetVault 7.0 combined with SANsymphony provides joint customers with a high-performance solution that simplifies large scale storage management."

"Network Appliance and BakBone have an outstanding relationship in providing customers enterprise class solutions in complex computing environments," said Suresh Vasudevan, senior director of software marketing at Network Appliance. "The combination of NetVault and SnapVault enables users to configure intelligent disk-to-disk backup and recovery solutions that fit their budgets today while having the ability to scale and satisfy their needs of tomorrow."

"Backup operations are critical to business continuance," said Robert Scroop, vice president and general manager of Overland's storage resource business unit. "NetVault's latest features such as simplified policy management and event notification are significant features that assure businesses operate successfully."

“Qualstar and BakBone have worked closely together for several years to provide our mutual customers with cost-effective data protection solutions that are robust and easy to install and administer,” said Bob Covey, Qualstar vice president of marketing. “NetVault’s powerful features are a natural fit with our TLS and RLS families of Simply Reliable automated tape libraries.”

"NetVault's technology extends BakBone's position as a leader in the backup and restore storage management segment," said Opinder Bawa, senior vice president of Engineering and Global Services, SCO. "The combination of SCO's UNIX and Linux operating systems with NetVault 7.0 provides customers the lowest total cost of ownership when it comes to backup and restore."

"We are pleased to continue our partnership with a storage management software leader such as BakBone," said Jim Fitzgerald, SteelEye executive vice president of business development. "The integrated SteelEye LifeKeeper and BakBone NetVault software provides customers with a robust, comprehensive data availability solution on Linux."

"Spectra Logic networked storage libraries, coupled with NetVault 7.0's flexible implementation and manageability make backup operations easy for customers," said Susie Weiss, strategic alliance director at Spectra Logic Corporation. "Having flexible and easy to-use-storage offerings is what customers are looking for and need for their ever-changing network environments and backup requirements."

"StorageTek, a leader in the automated tape market, is pleased to support BakBone's latest version of their backup and recovery software, NetVault 7.0. Together we will work to provide our customers with a reliable and scalable storage solution combined with advanced enterprise functionality for a solution that grows with there demands," said Tim Steadman, StorageTek director, Corporate Alliances.

NetVault is built upon an advanced modular architecture that provides IT managers the flexibility for growth and continued enhancement as companies’ information storage needs expand and change. With an intuitive and easy-to-use GUI delivering enterprise-wide control in both distributed and centralized environments, NetVault is able to operate in multi-vendor networks and supports a broad range of platforms, applications and high performance tape devices.

Pricing and Availability:

NetVault 7.0 is available now on UNIX, Linux, NT and Windows 2000 platforms. Pricing starts at $695. A free 45 day fully featured demo is available on BakBone’s web site at www.bakbone.com.

About BakBone Software, Inc.

BakBone Software is an international storage management software company that develops and globally distributes high-performance software solutions to the network storage and open systems markets. BakBone's backup and restore software provides 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. 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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