Seagate Recovery Services Data Recovery Response Teams on Standby for Immediate Deployment Anywhere in the United States as Major Disaster Declaration

TORONTO (BusinessWire EON) July 24, 2007 -- "The resilience of today's storage media and the possibility of recovering data lost due to flooding or wildfire damage is often underestimated by American businesses," says David Foster, vice president for Lab Operations at Seagate Recovery Services. "Using Seagate Recovery Services' leading drive independent data recovery technology and state-of-the-art strategically located super labs across the US and Canada to recover mission-critical data is now within the reach of virtually every United States business," Foster highlights.

Seagate Recovery Services recognizes the need for American businesses to keep operations running regardless of the severity of a natural disaster so that they can remain profitable. As such, Seagate Recovery Services has partnered with EVault, A Seagate Company, to provide businesses with an additional level of data protection using EVault's software or services to back up their business-critical data to multiple sites.

"Businesses can add an additional level of protection, by ensuring their critical data is stored offsite in one of our state-of-the art datacenters. The data is readily available and can be restored quickly to minimize business disruption," says Richard Heitmann, vice president of product management at EVault. "It's an exciting opportunity to partner with Seagate Recovery Services in this initiative of safeguarding American business' most precious assets - its data!" Heitmann adds.

About Seagate Recovery Services

Seagate Recovery Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Seagate Technology, is an industry forerunner and innovator in recovering inaccessible or corrupted data from all digital media, including computers, servers and back-ups. Seagate Recovery Services is the world's first ISO 9001:2000 certified recovery services provider serving thousands of consumer and business clients from its facilities around the globe. For more information, please visit http://services.seagate.com/criticalresponse.aspx

About EVault

EVault, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Seagate Technology is the trusted expert in comprehensive data protection solutions for over 9,000 small to large enterprise customers globally. Since 1997, EVault's software and outsourced services for backup, recovery, archiving, business continuity and e-discovery have allowed customers to conform to industry-specific compliance and security regulations. EVault's DeltaPro(TM), patented Quick File Scanning, and patent-pending Adaptive Compression technologies make it easy to secure, protect and recover critical data across a broad range of operating systems and applications, delivering the highest performing online backup and recovery solution available. EVault is the only vendor in the industry that allows customers to choose between 1) licensing and managing software in-house, 2) licensing software and outsourcing the data protection management to EVault or 3) subscribing to a Software as a Service offering delivered by EVault. For more information about EVault or to hear what our customers are saying, visit www.evault.com or contact an EVault expert at 877.382.8581.