BakBone Software Announces Support For Storage Networking Industry Association Technology Center Grand Opening.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2001

Bakbone Software (OTCBB:BKBOF)(TSE:BKB.)

BakBone Software, a global provider of software-based storage management solutions, announced its support for the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA's) Technology Center grand opening today in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The 14,000+ square foot center, the largest independent storage networking complex in the world, will support SNIA's efforts by providing a dedicated testing laboratory, outfitted with state-of-the-art hardware and software, as well as educational and training facilities. The center will also facilitate the gathering of work groups to progress the study, development and recommendation of storage standards to the appropriate standards bodies.

As a gold sponsor of the Technology Center grand opening, BakBone Software is reinforcing its position as a leader in the convergence of storage area networks (SANs) with network-attached storage (NAS), with a clear focus on emerging data storage technologies, such as virtualization.

"SNIA has taken a pre-eminent role in its field, by helping to accelerate the evolution of standards that ultimately represent the future of storage networking," said Jack Corrao, BakBone's President and Chief Operating Officer. "SNIA's Technology Center will showcase the development and testing of advanced network storage technologies that require interoperability of multi-vendor storage products. That is wholly consistent with BakBone's philosophy of combining powerful performance with ultimate ease of use, and we look forward to working with SNIA to help enable a wide range of interoperable products that meet the growing storage needs of companies of all sizes," Corrao added.

"With today's grand opening of the SNIA Technology Center, SNIA members have succeeded in building an environment that will, without a doubt, help to accelerate our mission - the promotion and evolution of storage networking," said Larry Krantz, chairman of the SNIA. "The SNIA education, training and standards developments are ultimately the future of storage networking. We believe that the SNIA Technology Center is a giant step toward supplying vendors, providers and more importantly, customers, with a centralized storage networking resource for years to come."

About The Technology Center

As a laboratory, the Technology Center embodies the SNIA vision by offering this new facility and providing members with the opportunity to profile enterprise storage systems, computing platforms - including Fibre Channel and NAS infrastructures - and products. With its Grand Opening today, the SNIA Technology Center will showcase the development and testing of advanced network storage technologies that require interoperability of multi-vendor storage products.

The SNIA is dedicated to ensuring that storage networks become a completed and trusted solution across the IT community, and fulfills this mission by bringing together vendors and IT staff from the storage industry to define product requirements. For more details on the SNIA Technology Center, visit the SNIA Web site at http://www.snia.org.

About BakBone Software, Inc.

BakBone Software(TM) (TSE:BKB.)(OTCBB:BKBOF) is an international storage management software company that develops and globally distributes industry-leading storage management solutions to the open systems markets, providing data protection and management solutions scalable from workgroup to enterprise that will grow with a company's needs. BakBone's core products include near-line optical and archival, as well as tape backup and restore software for a full suite of storage management solutions to the corporate data center.

BakBone's corporate headquarters is located at 10145 Pacific Heights Boulevard, San Diego, California 92121. Its stock is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and is included on the TSE 300 Composite, S&P/TSE Canadian SmallCap and TSE 200 indices. For more information on BakBone products, call 858-450-9009, e-mail [e-mail], or access BakBone's web site at www.bakbone.com.

About the SNIA

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit organization, made up of 150 companies and individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA members share a common goal: to set the pace of the industry by ensuring that storage networks become efficient, complete and trusted solutions across the IT community. To this end the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. For information, contact the SNIA at 650-949-6720 or via e-mail at [e-mail], or visit the SNIA web site at http://www.snia.org.