Connected Corporation and T-Systems Offer Data Protection Solution to European Market.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. & NEU-ISENBURG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 2002

Europe's Second-Largest Systems Provider to Extend Global Adoption

of Connected's Market-Leading PC Data Protection Solutions

Connected(TM) Corporation, the market-leading provider of PC data protection solutions, today announced that it has signed an agreement with T-Systems, Europe's second-largest systems provider. Under the terms of the agreement, T-Systems will offer the Connected TLM(TM) data protection solution to its European customers enabling them to automatically prevent data loss, and reduce the costs and burdens associated with managing enterprise PC data. T-Systems is also a Connected customer and will continue using Connected TLM in-house for automated PC data protection and overall IT cost reduction.

Connected TLM is the only PC data protection product and service on the market to provide automated, secure backup, and complete data recovery capabilities for corporations of all sizes -- even those with 100,000 PCs or more. Connected TLM's functional modules include Backup, Retrieve and System Heal, and enable IT departments to easily, affordably and efficiently manage data on their company's PCs. Corporations that arm their PCs with Connected TLM automatically prevent data loss, increase data security and help ensure business continuity.

Without a comprehensive PC backup system in place, enterprises are at risk to lose significant amounts of valuable data. According to industry analyst firm, IDC, companies store as much as 60 percent of their corporate data on desktop and laptop PCs. Additionally, the cost of data loss resulting from virus attacks, staff turnover, hard disk crashes, and other causes, averages hundreds, or even thousands of dollars per hour, during the outage.

T-Systems offers Connected TLM in Europe as a lease package, providing businesses an effective, automated PC data protection solution that eliminates many of the costs associated with buying and managing expensive server and storage hardware and administrators of their own.

About T-Systems International

T-Systems is Europe's No. 2 systems house, with some 40,000 employees (as of January 31, 2001) and annual revenues of approximately euro 11 billion. Deutsche Telekom has identified solution providing as one of its four strategic growth areas alongside mobile communications, consumer Internet and network access. The new company is the first to combine global capabilities in information technology (IT) and telecommunications. T-Systems draws its strength in IT from debis IT Services -- a joint venture between Deutsche Telekom AG (50.1 percent share) and DaimlerChrysler Services AG (49.9 percent) -- and its strength in telecommunications from Deutsche Telekom. T-Systems was officially launched on the German market in February 2001, and is represented in more than 20 countries.

Further information on the company is available online at http://www.t-systems.com.

About Connected Corporation

Connected Corporation is the market-leading provider of automated PC data protection solutions. Connected's patented technology automatically prevents data loss and helps ensure business continuity while significantly reducing the costs and burdens associated with managing enterprise PC data. More than 450 of the world's largest corporations, including Citgo Petroleum, EMC, Gap Inc., Goodrich, Hewlett Packard, PeopleSoft and Schlumberger, depend on Connected to protect their data assets. The award-winning Connected TLM solution is offered as a hosted service or as licensed product software. Connected is based in Framingham, Massachusetts, with multiple U.S. and international offices. For more information visit www.connected.com or call 1-800-353-3078.

Connected and Connected TLM are trademarks of Connected Corporation. All names and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.