@Backup Signs Jato Communications to Authorized Partners Program; DSL Broadband Services Provider Will Resell Individual Licenses For Online Backup and Remote Access Service.

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 1999--

@Backup, the leading provider of online information protection and access for small businesses and home computer users, announced an agreement with Jato Communications, a Denver-based provider of high-speed Internet access and applications, to resell licenses for the @Backup service.

Jato is the first company to take part in @Backup's new Authorized Partners Program, announced at ISPCON Fall '99, which allows network providers, ISPs and ASPs to purchase blocks of @Backup licenses and sell them directly to end users. Authorized Partners can buy blocks of licenses to resell individually to their customers. Jato has purchased an undisclosed amount of licenses at this time, and @Backup will author, host and maintain a co-branded web site where Jato customers can download the @Backup service.

"The DSL service Jato delivers gives our customers incredibly fast, reliable Internet access, and online backup/storage takes tremendous advantage of that speed," said F. Thomas Danner III, vice president of Application Planning and Strategy for Jato. "We're also pleased to empower our customers with the ability to perform a task as vital as backup and protecting their personal data."

"By reselling backup service, Jato can now offer a value-added application that helps them provide a more complete solution to their customers," said Gary Sutton, CEO of @Backup. "More and more users have come to rely on the power of the Internet to backup and store their information, and network providers like Jato are on the front lines of that movement."

@Backup Announces New Distribution Agreements

The Jato agreement and new Authorized Partners Program illustrate how @Backup intends to generate tens of millions of new customers in the next year. To that same end, @Backup has existing distribution agreements with Dell and Toshiba and, last month, announced agreements with Intuit and OfficeMax. The company will announce additional agreements with online service providers, PC manufacturers and software publishers in months to come.

@Backup Releases Latest Version

Also last month, @Backup announced the new @Backup Release 2.0 service that offers customers automated online storage, protection and convenient access to their most valuable information anytime, anywhere over the Internet. Customers interact daily with their protected files, so @Backup maintains a welcome and constant relationship with the customer. The daily relationship with the customer is largely the result of the backup message that they automatically receive each day after the backup has been completed.

About Jato Communications Corp.

Founded in early 1998, Denver-based Jato Communications is a leading data communications company that provides high-speed Internet access, network connectivity and associated broadband applications and services to small and medium-sized businesses, and related residential business applications such as tele-commuting and home offices. Jato uses digital subscriber line (DSL) and other high-speed communications transport technologies to offer a wide array of Internet-based services including Internet access, web hosting, e-mail, and e-business applications.

The company distributes its products and services directly to end-users and indirectly through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Value Added Resellers (VARs), and other local market partners. Jato intends to offer its DSL Plus service in 10 markets by the end of 1999 and over 100 total markets by the end of 2000. It already introduced its DSL Plus service in Denver, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque and Santa Fe. For more information, call Jato at 303-226-8400 or visit the company's website at www.jatocom.com.

About @Backup

Founded in 1996 in San Diego, Calif., @Backup is the leading online information protection and access company for small businesses and consumers. By outsourcing the storage, retrieval and migration of information, the company extends backup to create a user's virtual desktop from which information can be accessed anywhere, anytime. @Backup's massively scalable services are endorsed, distributed and marketed by industry leading network providers, ISPs, software publishers and hardware manufacturers such as American Express, Dell, Intuit, Toshiba and Time Warner.

For more information about @Backup, please visit the company's Web site at www.backup.com and see today's related @Backup news in the following releases: "@Backup Drives Toward Creation of Virtual Desktop," and "New @Backup Online Service Protects Valuable Personal Files and Content; Offers Unlimited Access through Web."