NovaStor Partners With Digi-Data to Offer Free Online Storage

Digi-Data Provides One Year Free Online Storage for NovaBACKUP Users

ROTKREUZ, SWITZERLAND and HAMBURG, GERMANY and SIMI VALLEY, CA–(Marketwire - May 28, 2008) - NovaStor, a leading provider of software solutions for data availability and protection, announces its partnership with Digi-Data Corporation, a provider of digital archiving and internet storage solutions. The partnership brings to light best practices in critical data protection for both consumers and small and medium sized businesses. While backing up data locally is important, it is crucial to keep the most critical data online.

NovaStor’s recent release of NovaBACKUP 10 now features online storage as a choice in data protection. Users can select and schedule to have critical data backed up online. NovaStor is offering free online storage through Digi-Data to stress just how important it is to store data off-site in addition to onsite in the event of a disaster.

“More and more small businesses are seeing an increase in their volume of critical data,” says Mike Andrews, Managing Director at NovaStor. “For many of these businesses, the loss of their data would mean the loss of their business. NovaStor is working to create an awareness that data needs to be protected locally and online to ensure business continuity.”

Every purchase of NovaBACKUP 10 will include one year of free online storage provided by Digi-Data. Storage capacity is determined by the NovaBACKUP edition purchased. Editions of Professional, Server, and Business Essentials include 2GB, 5GB, and 10GB of free online storage, respectively. Additionally, trial users of the product will be able to store 1GB of data online for free for 15 days.

“Digi-Data is committed to the long term retention of high value digital assets,” quotes Mitch Schwartz, VP of Sales for Digi-Data. “When combined with NovaBACKUP, we believe that consumers and businesses can finally minimize and even eliminate data protection concerns. Our services guarantee NovaStor SLAs will be unmatched in the Storage Utility market, along with Archiving and web services APIs for future services development.”

To download a fifteen day trial or to purchase NovaBACKUP 10 with free online storage, visit www.novastor.com.

About Digi-Data

Digi-Data specializes in the long-term retention and protection of high-value digital assets. Founded in 1960 and based on a pedigree of clustering and virtualization technologies, the company operates the Continuum Storage Architecture to support an ecosystem of public and private storage utilities. Leveraging core grid-controller technology, and the broadest suite of open storage interfaces and APIs, Digi-Data is addressing the shift from data center to consumer and business created content. As the online services provider behind large telecommunications companies, Digi-Data enables partners to reduce time to market and provide differentiated solutions. For more information, visit www.digidata.com.

About NovaStor

NovaStor is a leading, international provider of software solutions for data availability and protection. NovaStor provides software and services for the backup, restore and retention of business-critical data which together cover a wide application area — ranging from home, mobile users, SMB users, all the way through Enterprise users, globally. NovaStor’s cost-effective solutions are platform- and hardware-independent and ensure that optimal technological and economical use is gained from the customer’s existing and future IT environment. www.novastor.com

NovaStor is headquartered in Switzerland (Rotkreuz), has offices in Germany (Hamburg) and the USA (Simi Valley), and is represented in numerous other countries through partnerships.

Contact:
Amy Beaman
NovaStor Corporation
Tel.: 805 579 5452
E-Mail: amy.beaman@novastor.com

Amber Pease
Digi-Data Corporation
Tel.: 303 604 9020 x 126
E-mail: amber.pease@digidata.com