LiveVault Announces Support for Microsoft Data Protection Server.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. -- LiveVault Expands Strategic Relationship with Microsoft by providing Offsite Vaulting for Microsoft Data Protection Server for an End-to-End Disaster Recovery Solution

LiveVault Corporation(R) (www.livevault.com), the leading provider of disk-based online backup and recovery solutions for business servers, today announced support for Microsoft Data Protection Server (DPS) via a new service, LiveVault AutoOffsite(TM). LiveVault AutoOffsite, will fully support DPS to provide automatic offsite storage for Microsoft DPS customers. Working together, LiveVault and Microsoft will enable businesses to fully protect their data by combining the speed of onsite disk backup with the disaster recovery protection of automatic offsite vaulting from LiveVault.

As part of the Windows Server System, Microsoft Data Protection Server will provide low-cost, easy to manage disk-based backup, allowing companies to take advantage of an existing Windows infrastructure and Windows technologies such as Active Directory to backup their data.

"Our customers tell us that backing up and recovering their data is incredibly complex and expensive," said Jim Hebert, general manager, Windows Server Division at Microsoft Corp. "The combination of Data Protection Server and LiveVault storage solutions will help customers shrink their backup and recovery time from hours to minutes and drive down the cost of maintaining storage infrastructures, making continuous data protection technologies available to customers of all sizes."

The US Small Business Administration recommends that data be stored at least 50 miles from its primary location, to protect against site and regional disasters. LiveVault AutoOffsite delivers this value to Microsoft DPS customers. LiveVault AutoOffsite is being fully tested and optimized to work with Microsoft DPS to automatically transmit data to a secure, offsite facility via the Internet.

"Microsoft's entry into the disk based backup validates what industry analysts and companies like LiveVault have been saying for years: tape backup is unreliable and burdensome and gives companies a false sense of security that their data is protected and restorable," said Bob Cramer, president and CEO of LiveVault. "Now companies can look to Microsoft for a disk-based solution that removes the daily headaches of tape-based backup, and look to LiveVault to make sure that their data is electronically and automatically stored offsite, completely recoverable in case of disaster."

This announcement solidifies LiveVault's and Microsoft's ongoing commitment and support of each other's products. In addition to providing LiveVault AutoOffsite, LiveVault is working with Microsoft on numerous fronts, including as a:

--Microsoft Business Solutions ISV Partner

--Microsoft Backup and Storage Management Exchange Partner

--Member of the Microsoft Developer Network 

The LiveVault Online Backup and Recovery Service

LiveVault AutoOffsite continues the LiveVault tradition of delivering products and services that utilize disk for backup and bandwidth for automatic offsite protection to ensure data recoverability for small and mid-sized companies (SMBs) and remote branch offices. Thousands of SMBs already subscribe to the LiveVault Online Backup and Recovery Service, a disk-based service that automatically and continuously backs up business server data via a secure Internet connection and stores it in a secure offsite location for guaranteed recovery in the event of a system failure, virus, human error or other disaster.

The LiveVault service is designed for customers who have primarily relied on in-house tape backups to keep their data safe. Analysts estimate nearly 50 percent of tape-based backups for these distributed servers fail to restore properly, seriously compromising the operations, and potentially the viability, of affected companies. Conversely, LiveVault's continuous, fully managed service delivers 100 percent data recoverability, guaranteed.

To find out how LiveVault and Microsoft can provide cost-effective data protection and disaster recovery for your business, please visit www.livevault.com, contact [e-mail] or call [phone].

About LiveVault Corporation

LiveVault Corporation is the leading provider of fully managed, disk-based online data backup and recovery services. LiveVault automatically and continuously backs up server data, protects it offsite at a secure, remote facility, and makes it immediately available for recovery 24x7. Through its partnerships with IBM (NYSE: IBM), Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), BT (NYSE: BTY), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and others, LiveVault helps ensure the business continuity of small and mid-sized businesses, as well as distributed offices of larger enterprises. LiveVault is based in Marlborough, Mass. For more information visit www.livevault.com or call [phone].

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