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BakBone Wins VARBusiness Tech Innovator Company of the Year for VMware
Data Protection Capabilities
SAN DIEGO --(Business Wire)--
BakBone Software® (Pink Sheets: BKBO), the leading provider of heterogeneous integrated data protection solutions, won VARBusiness Tech Innovator Company of the Year in the storage category for its VMware capabilities in NetVault®: Backup. CRN Test Center technical editors determined award winners based on technical innovation, development efforts and other key characteristics. The winners bridged the widest gap between problem and solution using new technology or methods.
"Innovation is truly the heart of the technology industry, and the winners of this year's VARBusiness Tech Innovator Awards have taken innovation to the next level," said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel. "We congratulate each and every one of this year's Tech Innovator Award winners."
BakBone's NetVault: Backup VMware Plugin received the VARBusiness Tech Innovator Award for its advanced data protection capabilities. The plugin is integrated into the NetVault: Backup environment, allowing customers to set backup policies and restore data without requiring VMware expertise. While other solutions on the market require customers to use complex scripting to work properly with VMware ESX and VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB), NetVault: Backup's capabilities give them a point-and-click user interface that simplifies their experiences and unleashes the power to protect more complex and dynamic environments.
"Virtualization is a major trend for information technology professionals," said Ashby Lincoln, president and CEO, VeriStor Systems, Inc. "It allows our customers to manage data more efficiently and use less energy. The NetVault: Backup product line provides enterprise-class data protection for complex, heterogeneous IT environments, regardless of size, running both physical and virtual servers. With NetVault: Backup's flexible modular architecture, we have been able to reduce deployment costs and increase total cost of ownership for our customers to implement a solution designed to meet current as well as future needs."
"BakBone is making it easier for organizations to fully protect their VMware environments by taking VMware data protection to the next level and offering a solution that protects both individual and entire groups of VMware ESX servers," said Mark Williams, vice president of North American Sales, BakBone. "BakBone's VMware Consolidated Backup and ESX integration through the NetVault: Backup user interface provides a simple, yet powerful way to support joint VMware and BakBone customers and offers some of the deepest technology integration with VMware today. This award also reflects our ongoing commitment to our channel partners with the effort we put into our Channel Advantage Program."
NetVault: Backup is in the final stages of certification with VMware, and BakBone has worked closely with VMware to deliver one of the most deeply integrated VMware data protection solutions to market. By taking advantage of its tight integration with VCB and its flexible licensing capabilities, BakBone is able to dramatically simplify the protection of the VMware environment with NetVault: Backup, providing views of the entire virtual infrastructure (VI) tree, giving administrators immediate virtual machine status information and providing customers with the flexibility to protect either a single ESX server, regardless of how many virtual machines exist, or utilize VCB for larger environments. Under VCB, NetVault: Backup offers file-level Microsoft restores without staging.
About BakBone's Channel Advantage Program
BakBone's channel program is multi-tiered, enabling channel partners to expand and diversify their sales and support engagements with existing and potential customers. BakBone recently launched its enhanced Channel Advantage Program with new initiatives, reflecting BakBone's ongoing commitment to be responsive and easy to engage. Channel Partners can now benefit from greater financial rewards, more streamlined communication, a redesigned partner portal, and online certification classes.
About BakBone Software, Inc.
BakBone is committed to making data protection a simple, straightforward process while delivering its Integrated Data Protection (IDP) strategy through an award-winning product suite. This suite provides unprecedented capabilities not only to protect critical data - but more importantly, to ensure the availability of that data as well. BakBone's products offer a single point of control for managing resources across all platforms, providing improved operational efficiency, reduced system downtime, improved availability and enhanced security to support the business growth of enterprise environments. Thousands of users worldwide leverage BakBone's IDP approach to simplify the management of multi-platform environments with a portfolio of backup, disaster recovery, replication and storage reporting solutions for Linux, Windows, Unix and Mac OS environments. These scalable data protection solutions address the demands of Global 5000 organizations and are distributed through a worldwide network of select OEM partners, strategic partners, resellers and solution providers. BakBone is headquartered in San Diego, Calif. For more information about BakBone, visit www.bakbone.com or email info@bakbone.com.
Safe Harbor
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors, which, if they do not materialize or prove correct, could cause BakBone's results to differ materially from historical results, or those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on the Company's current estimates and expectations and inherently involve significant risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual financial results could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of those risks and uncertainties, which include, without limitation: the risk that the Company's restructuring costs may be greater than anticipated; risks that the anticipated cost savings will not be achieved; risks that the workforce reduction and expense reductions may have an adverse impact on the Company's business or operations; BakBone's ongoing review of its financial statements and efforts to become current in its reporting with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Canadian Securities Administrators; competition in our target markets; potential capital needs; management of future growth and expansion; the development, implementation and execution of the Company's Integrated Data Protection (IDP) strategic vision; risk of third-party claims of infringement; protection of proprietary information; customer acceptance of the Company's existing and newly introduced products and fee structures; and the success of BakBone's brand development efforts; risks associated with strategic alliances; reliance on distribution channels; product concentration; need to develop new and enhanced products; potential product defects; our ability to hire and retain qualified employees and key management personnel; and risks associated with changes in domestic and international market conditions and the entry into and development of international markets for the Company's products. Our forward-looking statements should be considered in the context of these and other risk factors disclosed in our most recent report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which may be found at www.sec.gov, as well as those risk factors disclosed in our current report filed with the Canadian Securities Administrators, which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. All future written and oral forward-looking statements made by us or on our behalf are also subject to these factors. BakBone assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances arising after the date on which it was made, other than as required under applicable securities laws.
The common shares of BakBone Software are currently subject to cease trade orders in the Canadian jurisdictions of Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario due to delays in the filing of the Company's financial statements. Although these cease trade orders do not prevent investors, who are not resident in or otherwise subject to the laws of Alberta, British Columbia or Ontario, from trading the common shares of BakBone on the Pink Sheets in the United States, investors are encouraged to obtain legal advice to ensure that these trades are not violating the cease trade orders. BakBone continues to work to resolve all outstanding issues which have prevented filing of its financial statements; however, an exact date for filing of these financial statements cannot be determined at this time.
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