Diligent Technologies Named Finalist for TechTarget’s ”2006 Storage Products of the Year”

January 23, 2007 03:00 PM Eastern Time
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Diligent Technologies Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise data protection solutions, today announced that its ProtecTIER™ Data Protection Platform has been selected as a finalist in TechTarget’s Storage magazine-Searchstorage.com “Storage Products of the Year” awards for 2006. Diligent was nominated in the Backup and Disaster Recovery Software category, which is currently featured online at http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/2006POYFinalists.

“It is a privilege to be named a finalist in TechTarget’s annual Storage Products of the Year awards,” said Doron Kempel, Chairman and CEO of Diligent Technologies. “We are very pleased with the fact that our ProtecTIER platform has been accepted in the enterprise marketplace and has clearly made a difference in our customer’s data protection and disaster recovery strategies, both from an operational and economical bottom-line stand point. This is indicative of the awareness in the marketplace that ProtecTIER is indeed a unique data de-duplication enterprise-class solution.”

The awards, presented by the editors of TechTarget’s storage media group are judged by the Storage magazine-searchstorage.com editorial staff in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants. Judges select 15 “Products of the Year” from among enterprise storage related products introduced, upgraded and shipped between October 27, 2005 and November 3, 2006. Winners will be announced on February 5, 2007.

Diligent Technologies’ ProtecTIER is the first enterprise-class disk-based data protection solution to effectively increase the capacity of a given disk array by 25 times or more, while simultaneously offering inline throughput of 400 MB/s and unmatched scalability. Powered by HyperFactor™, ProtecTIER eliminates redundant data, radically reducing the amount and cost of physical storage required. Because HyperFactor de-dupes data inline, ProtecTIER enables customers to take immediate advantage of remote replication features for a faster, more reliable disaster recovery implementation.

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About Diligent Technologies Corporation

Diligent delivers scalable, proven, enterprise-class disk-based data protection solutions. Diligent’s ProtecTIER™ platform, powered by HyperFactor™, a game-changing data de-duplication technology, enables customers to protect more data while recording less of it, all without disrupting existing policies, practices and procedures in their data center. Diligent’s solutions and professional services are available through its reseller and partner channels along with sales, service and R&D support located worldwide. Information on Diligent Technologies is available on the World Wide Web at www.diligent.com, tel: +1-508-663-1300 or e-mail: info@diligent.com.