Atempo Appoints Rick Wojcik as CEO; Former EMC Leader Rick Wojcik to Help Drive Next Stage of Company's Global Growth.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

PALO ALTO, Calif. & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2004

Atempo, Inc., a leader in information lifecycle strategies for data protection, today announced the appointment of Rick Wojcik as the company's chief executive officer. The appointment of Wojcik is part of Atempo's global growth strategy, enhancing the company's leadership with industry veterans as the market increasingly adopts Atempo's Time Navigator(TM) data protection solution. Wojcik has been a board member at Atempo since early 2003.

Wojcik is a well-respected storage industry veteran who rose through the ranks at EMC Corporation. His 16-year career with EMC included a number of key positions integral to the company's outstanding performance during the 1990's. These positions included vice president of EMC's EMEA and Asia Pacific operations, where he built EMC's highly productive indirect and direct sales channels. In this role he managed over 2000 employees and combined revenues of $1.3 billion.

"Atempo represents the perfect data protection solution at a time when companies worldwide are grappling with how to manage corporate data through its value lifecycle," said Wojcik. "Atempo's approach has always been to simplify and speed up the data protection process from creation to archiving and beyond. Our 2000 customers continually reaffirm we are the fastest restore solution and that our Time Navigator software is instrumental in helping them with business challenges such as disaster recovery, regulatory compliance, security and unrelenting data growth."

According to Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, "Wojcik adds even more credibility to an already great Atempo story. I've known him for years, and he's the real deal. The company is clearly going to make a serious run at upsetting the apple cart in this space."

Atempo is a leading provider of data protection solutions to 2000 Global 1000 and medium-sized firms. Atempo's customers include Airbus, Capgemini, Credit Agricole, Orange, France Telecom, Novartis, Renault and Virgin.net. Atempo's flagship Time Navigator(TM) software is a highly scalable and feature-rich software that offers performance and features grouped around today's more complex enterprise challenges including disaster recovery, compliance, security and rapid data growth.

About Atempo

Founded in 1992, Atempo enables practical, comprehensive and flexible information life cycle management strategies with a suite of business continuity and compliance solutions based on Atempo's Time Navigator Platform. With an established network of value-added reseller and strategic alliances, Atempo empowers over 2000 companies and partners worldwide with the fastest back-up and restore, disaster recovery, archiving, and regulatory compliance solutions in this time of unrelenting data growth. For more information please visit www.atempo.com or call [phone].

Atempo and the Atempo logo are trademarks, and Time Navigator is a registered trademark of Atempo S.A. and Atempo, Inc. All other products, services, and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.