Arkeia Data Protection Solutions Now Certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Arkeia Corp. today announced Red Hat Ready certification of its flagship enterprise network backup software which now supports Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux 4 environments for x86 platforms. As a member of the Red Hat Ready Partner program, Arkeia has added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to its existing product line, which already includes support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.

The "Red Hat Ready" Independent Software Vendor (ISV) application program allows vendors to test and qualify their software applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is a key step in supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a standard platform for enterprise computing. Customers who choose to deploy Red Hat Ready applications have the assurance that Arkeia software has completed rigorous testing on the latest versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and that Arkeia is compliant with Red Hat's stringent guidelines for interoperability.

Arkeia continues to maintain its position as the first professional network backup solution fully capable of protecting Linux environments of virtually all configurations. It offers the widest coverage in terms of architecture, including x86, Itanium-2, AMD Opteron, PowerPC, SPARC, Alpha, and appliances such as Sun Cobalt and SGI Altix servers. Arkeia supports a broad range of other operating systems, including Windows, Unix, Mac OS X, NetWare and xBSD.

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux has become a standard enterprise computing platform for Arkeia's customers," said Frederic Renard, director of marketing and alliances for Arkeia. "Our alignment with Red Hat through the Red Hat Ready program has been a collaborative, cost-effective method for getting our Linux applications to market as rapidly as possible."

Arkeia products certified for RHEL 4 include:

--Arkeia Server Backup for stand-alone data-critical servers that features a unique data volume based pricing;

--Arkeia Network Backup for heterogeneous network backup based on a Linux or Unix backup server;

--Arkeia Disaster Recovery, a complementary module for any commercial version of Arkeia, protecting the Linux backup server and/or client;

--Arkeia Hot-Backup plug-ins for online backup of database applications such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Lotus, Open-Xchange (including SLOX), LDAP, MS Exchange and MS SQL Servers.

For more information see http://www.arkeia.com/strategic/redhat/.

About Red Hat Inc.

Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, has headquarters in Raleigh, N.C., with satellite offices spanning the globe. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high-quality, low-cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating system software along with middleware, applications and management solutions. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships. Red Hat's Open Source strategy offers customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with focus on security and ease of management. Learn more at www.redhat.com.

About Arkeia Corp.

Arkeia Corp. is a leading provider of established backup and recovery solutions for departments and mid-size businesses utilizing Linux. Arkeia offers data protection software designed to ease the life of system administrators by providing efficient technology at a competitive price.

Protecting more than 100,000 networks worldwide, Arkeia solutions have been adopted by 4,000 corporate-class customers in over 50 countries since 1999. Arkeia is privately held, with investment funding support from two major banking concerns. Offices are in Carlsbad and Paris, France.

For further information, visit www.arkeia.com.