BakBone also Receives Runner-up Honors for Best Replication Product at This Year’s Prestigious Storries Awards

BakBone Software® (Pink Sheets:BKBO), the leading provider of heterogeneous integrated data protection solutions, today announced that NetVault®: Backup 8.0 won Storage magazine’s 2008 Storage Award (the Storries Awards) for Best Backup Product, beating solutions in the same category by other storage vendors, including CommVault and Symantec. In addition, BakBone NetVault: Replicator was runner up in the Replication Product of the Year category. This is BakBone’s second year in a row winning a best-in-category award at the Storries Awards.

“I am thrilled that NetVault: Backup has once again been recognized as a leading solution in the data protection industry. With so many options currently on the market, we created a product that stands out for its effectiveness, ease of use and reliability,” said Chris Ross, vice president of EMEA, BakBone. “At BakBone we work closely with our users to develop products that efficiently protect their data without compromising on performance.”

“We evaluated various bidders and selected BakBone’s NetVault: Backup because it ticked all the boxes: scalability, ease of use and price,” said Steve Makin, ICT network services manager at Shepway District Council. “The positive recommendations we received from existing users gave us extra confidence.”

NetVault: Backup 8.0 provides enterprise-class functionality for complex heterogeneous environments by offering support for multiple server platforms and applications across these platforms with a common user interface across the spectrum to keep total cost of ownership down. BakBone continues to bring new features and functions to market in NetVault: Backup, most recently introducing an integrated VMware Plugin that eliminates the requirement for complex scripting and the need to understand VMware internals.

William Harris, technical solutions architect at Cancer Research UK, said, “With so much data to manage and protect 24/7, ease of use is of paramount importance for us, both in terms of configuration and day-to-day administration. BakBone’s reporting tools and policy management have been highly effective in helping us achieve this. BakBone NetVault: Backup has allowed us to consolidate our data protection strategy, saving us man hours, increasing data protection and giving us peace of mind. It has been invaluable.”

About BakBone Software, Inc.

BakBone is committed to making data protection a simple, straightforward process while delivering its Integrated Data Protection (IDP) strategy through an award-winning product suite. This suite provides unprecedented capabilities not only to protect critical data – but more importantly, to ensure the availability of that data as well. BakBone’s products offer a single point of control for managing resources across all platforms, providing improved operational efficiency, reduced system downtime, improved availability and enhanced security to support the business growth of enterprise environments. Thousands of users worldwide leverage BakBone’s IDP approach to simplify the management of multi-platform environments with a portfolio of backup, disaster recovery, replication and storage reporting solutions for Linux, Windows, Unix and Mac OS environments. These scalable data protection solutions address the demands of Global 5000 organisations and are distributed through a worldwide network of select OEM partners, strategic partners, resellers and solution providers. BakBone is headquartered in San Diego, Calif. For more information about BakBone, visit www.bakbone.com or email info@bakbone.com.