Dantz Scores High in PC Magazine First Look Review and in Network News; Company's Retrospect Software Hailed for Its Complete Backup Abilities.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ORINDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2002 Dantz Development Corporation, a premier provider of backup and restore software, received high scoring marks for Retrospect(R) Backup in a First Look review in a recent issue of PC Magazine. In a March 26, 2002 article entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: "Dantz Through Disaster Recovery," reviewers Robert P. Lipshutz and Dave Lopez gave the backup software See backup program. (tool, software) backup software - Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. high ratings. The pair wrote, "Small and medium-size businesses looking to back up their critical data should consider Dantz Development Corp.'s intuitive Retrospect Server Backup 5.6." Lipshutz and Lopez praised Retrospect's simplicity, single-file or entire system restore and disaster recovery abilities. Testing was done "with a typical setup for a small business, using a Seagate TapeStor DAT (1) (Dynamic Address Translator) A hardware circuit that converts a virtual memory address into a real address. See also DAT file. (2) (Digital Audio Tape) A magnetic tape technology used for backing up data. DDS-4 tape drive." "For Dantz Retrospect to have the praise of PC Magazine reaffirms that we are providing a backup and restore solution that is simple to use, offers needed functionality and safeguards business critical data," said Tony Barbagallo, Dantz's vice president of marketing. "And, with proactive backups of notebooks and desktops, Retrospect is the ideal backup software for small to mid-size businesses." The PC Magazine review closely follows a comparative review in U.K.-based Network News, another well-respected publication, in which Dantz received a "Recommended" rating. Veteran reviewer Dave Mitchell '' James David Mitchell (born October 4, 1947 in Wichita Falls, Texas) better known as "Dave Mitchell" is an American radio personality and voice-over artist who has appeared on over 100 radio stations in Texas, Mississippi, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina. noted, "Retrospect has always been good for small to medium businesses as it delivers a range of unique features at an affordable price." The review concluded, "Retrospect is an ideal choice for small to medium businesses as it runs on any Windows platform, offers good value, broad device support and disaster recovery tools." Both reviews can be found at http://www.dantz.com/reviews. Dantz Retrospect Backup software makes it easy for anyone to automate their backups and keep multiple, independent copies for added safety -- the best methods to reduce exposure to data loss. Automation ensures that data is backed up frequently, and keeping a backup copy A disk, tape or other machine readable copy of a data or program file. Making backup copies is a discipline most computer users learn the hard way-- after months of work is lost. See backup and LAN free backup. offsite is the only protection against fire, theft and disaster. Retrospect's EasyScript(TM) wizard creates a complete backup strategy based on the user's answers to a few simple questions. After the first backup, subsequent backups are small and fast, thanks to Dantz's patented progressive backup technology, which adds only one copy of each new or changed file to each backup set. Restores are efficient and precise, even after multiple progressive backups, and they require only a single-read pass over the backup media, allowing any file, folder or entire disk to be restored exactly as it was, with minimal effort. About Dantz Dantz Development Corporation is a leading worldwide provider of backup and restore software. Since 1984, Dantz Retrospect Backup products have earned numerous awards protecting business critical information on servers, desktops and notebooks. The company's patented technologies provide the reliability and efficiency that companies depend upon for business continuance The adjournment or postponement of an action pending in a court to a later date of the same or another session of the court, granted by a court in response to a motion made by a party to a lawsuit. . Customers of Dantz include small- to mid-size businesses, as well as workgroups and departments of larger companies, including British Telecom The telephone and communications carrier that provides services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It used to be a division of the British Post Office, but was privatized in 1984 under Margaret Thatcher's administration. , Daimler Chrysler, Motorola, Nortel, Pixar and Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney . Dantz is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. located in Orinda, Calif. and backed by leading venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] Mobius Venture Capital, ARCH Venture Partners and Madrona Venture Group. For more information, please visit www.dantz.com or call +1 925.253.3000. Note: Retrospect is a registered trademark of Dantz Development Corporation. All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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