Connected Enhances Industry's Best PC Data Protection and Management Product Suite.

Business/Technology Editors

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 2001

Connected TLM 6.1 Now Includes Peregrine Systems(R) Best-of-Breed

InfraTools(TM) Technologies For Automatic Discovery

and Remote Control of IT Assets

Connected(TM) Corporation, the market-leading provider of PC data protection and management solutions, today announced that it has released Connected TLM(TM) Version 6.1 -- the latest edition of its award-winning Connected TLM product suite -- the industry's standard for PC data protection and management.

Embedded in Connected's new and enhanced Asset Survey and Remote Control modules, which are available with Connected TLM 6.1, are InfraTools Desktop Discovery and Remote Control technologies from Peregrine Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRGN), one of the world's largest software companies. The combination of Connected TLM and InfraTools technologies enable IT professionals to better manage and support their users' PCs by ensuring the highest degree of automated PC data capture and protection available today.

According to industry analysts, many companies have put little or no planning into business continuity or PC disaster recovery practices. In a survey of corporate IT managers conducted by Gartner's Dataquest unit, more than 50 percent of businesses surveyed did not have a corporate disaster recovery plan in place.

Despite the recently renewed focus on disaster recovery and business continuity, companies still need to make significant improvements. Research conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC) indicates that the typical corporation still leaves approximately 60 percent of their information assets unprotected on PCs. This means there is no recovery plan for over half of the intellectual property in most enterprises. Connected TLM 6.1 eliminates the gaping hole in a company's security plan by capturing important data and system state information from every PC in a network and backing it up to secure Connected TLM Data Center Servers. The Connected TLM Agent runs automatically, in the background, on all the PCs in an enterprise, providing automated data protection and extensive PC management capabilities.

"Companies are realizing that it is no longer acceptable to leave corporate data unprotected on PCs," said Senior Analyst Fred Broussard of IDC. "Backup software for individual desktop and laptop computers has increased priority as part of a disaster recovery strategy. Products such as Connected TLM Version 6.1 deliver a PC data protection and management solution that would be an asset for any company's IT operations and a vital component of a complete business continuity plan."

"TLM 6.1 ensures the safety, security, protection and availability of corporate data on desktop and laptop PCs -- which is more important now, than ever," said David Cane, Connected's founder and SVP of Engineering. "With enhancements provided as a result of our OEM relationship with Peregrine, and our improved data management capabilities, TLM 6.1 provides IT professionals with the best technology for managing the entire lifecycle of enterprise PCs, and delivers a rapid and tangible return on investment."

New features available in Connected TLM 6.1 include:

-- Asset Survey--With new licensing mandates, it is more critical than ever for IT professionals to have an accurate account of the software that is installed in enterprise networks, and the hardware on which it's running. The Asset Survey module featuring Peregrine's award-winning InfraTools Desktop Discovery technology provides easy, automatic detection and management of software and hardware, and it easily integrates with Peregrine's AssetCenter(R), the industry's leading asset management software.

-- Remote Assist--Connected TLM's Remote Assist, featuring Peregrine's InfraTools Remote Control technology, provides comprehensive remote control of any PC in an enterprise. Working over any connection, TLM Remote Assist enables IT professionals to take full control of the remote PC to diagnose and fix any issues the user may have.

-- Improved Data Management--With the new Data Center Management Console, IT staff have streamlined administrative options that enable them to more efficiently manage Connected TLM deployments scaling to or past 100,000 PCs.

"Prior to Connected, our data recovery was only reserved for critical documents due to the time and costs associated with retrieval," said Wally Beddoe, vice president of operations at Telekurs (USA) Inc. "With Connected TLM, file retrieval takes only a few minutes, our costs have been significantly reduced and now all our company data is protected. We look forward to deploying Version 6.1 in the near future to ensure that our company's users have the best data protection and recovery available to them."

For more detailed information on TLM 6.1 enhancements please visit: www.connected.com.

Pricing and Availability of Version 6.1

Connected TLM 6.1 is available as a product suite or a hosted service offering. For more information and pricing on Connected TLM, please contact Connected Sales (1-800-934-0956) or [e-mail]. The Connected TLM agent is compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, or Windows 2000. For Backup and Retrieve only, the TLM agent supports Windows XP. The TLM Data Center Software is compatible with Windows NT4 (with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0), or Windows 2000 Server (with Microsoft SQL Server 2000).

About Connected

Based in Framingham, Massachusetts, with multiple U.S. and international offices, Connected Corporation is the market-leading provider of PC data protection and management solutions, including secure backup and recovery, application self-healing, PC migration, and asset survey capabilities for enterprise desktop and mobile PCs. Connected's PC lifecycle management technology improves enterprise productivity by significantly reducing computer downtime, and the costs and burdens associated with managing PCs and their stored information assets. More than 350 of the world's largest corporations, including Cisco Systems, Compaq, EMC, GAP, Goodrich and Hewlett-Packard, use the award-winning Connected TLM software. For more information visit www.connected.com or call 1-800-353-3078.

Connected and Connected TLM are trademarks of Connected Corporation. Peregrine Systems and AssetCenter are registered trademarks and InfraTools is a trademark of Peregrine Systems, Inc. All names and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.