Connected Introduces Executive Seminar Series: Solving the Storage Equation.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 2003

Industry Leaders including Gartner, Intel and Iron Mountain

Discuss How to Intelligently Manage More Data with Automated

Protection and Off-Site Storage

Connected(TM) Corporation, the market-leading provider of PC data protection solutions, today announced that it will host a seminar series tour titled, "Solving the Storage Equation," which will focus on reducing enterprise storage requirements. The seminar, which visits San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, Boston and Washington D.C. in April and May, features executive panelists from Gartner (NYSE: ITB), Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR), Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC), Grant Thornton, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI), Experio Solutions and Connected. Panelists will discuss the benefits of automated PC data protection and secure, off-site data storage.

The demands on data center servers are increasing. In fact, a recently published report projects that enterprise storage needs will increase by a factor of seven over the next three years (Strategic Research Corporation, 2002). CIOs and IT management, struggling to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their organizations, have been left with few options in their efforts to control costs and drive productivity. This seminar series will address how PC-based storage can solve network storage capacity problems at a much lower cost to corporations than traditional centralized storage approaches.

"With the increasing amount of emails and other corporate documents that need to be stored, the information assets needed to manage a business have driven enterprise storage demands through the roof," said Bob Brennan, CEO for Connected. "This seminar provides perspective from well-respected industry leaders on how to effectively take advantage of the unused storage resources on PCs -- to save on costs and ensure that corporate data is automatically protected and efficiently stored."

Following is the complete tour schedule for the "Solving the Storage Equation" seminar series:

    --  San Francisco, CA, April 2, 2003 at 6:00 pm, The W Hotel
    Featured Panelists: Rich Mogull, Director of Research for Gartner
                        Joe Gruber, Director for Intel
                        Bob Brennan, CEO for Connected
                        Dean Drougas, CIO for Silicon Graphics

    --  Chicago, IL, April 4, 2003 at 6:00 pm, The W Hotel
    Featured Panelists: John Girard, Vice President of Research for
                            Gartner
                        Clarence Curry, Director of Consulting
                            Services for Iron Mountain
                        Bob Brennan, CEO for Connected
                        David Johnson, Director of Technology for
                            Grant Thornton

    --  New York, NY, April 8, 2003 at 6:00 pm, The W Hotel
    Featured Panelists: Rich Mogull, Director of Research for Gartner
                        Joe Gruber, Director for Intel
                        Bob Brennan, CEO for Connected
                        Featured Customer

    --  Boston, MA, April 16, 2003 at 6:00 pm, The Copley Fairmount
    Featured Panelists: John Girard, Vice President of Research for
                            Gartner
                        Clarence Curry, Director of Consulting
                            Services for Iron Mountain
                        Bob Brennan, CEO for Connected
                        Nader Djafari, Senior Director of IT
                            Operations for Macromedia

    --  Washington, D.C., May 1, 2003 at 6:00 pm, The Renaissance
        Mayflower
    Featured Panelists: John Girard, Vice President of Research for
                            Gartner
                        Clarence Curry, Director of Consulting
                            Services for Iron Mountain
                        Bob Brennan, CEO for Connected
                        Michael Shisko, Director of IT for Experio
                            Solutions

To register for a complimentary seminar in any of the five locations, call 1.888.632.2583 or reserve a space online at www.connected.com/storage. Refreshments will be served, and all venues are handicapped accessible.

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 and storing enterprise PC data. More than 500 of the world's largest corporations, including Boeing, Citgo Petroleum, EMC, Goodrich, Hewlett Packard, Iron Mountain, PeopleSoft, SAP and Schlumberger, depend on Connected to protect their data assets. The award-winning Connected solution is offered as a subscription service or as licensed 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.