APTARE StorageConsole 4.0 Enables First Proactive Backup Resource Management for VERITAS NetBackup Environments

Software provides next-generation backup and recovery intelligence through patented predictive backup resource management capabilities.

Campbell, CA, June 2, 2004 -APTARE, Inc., a trusted provider of storage software, today announced the release of APTARET APTARE StorageConsole™ 4.0, which proactively avoids data loss through advanced forecasting and analysis capabilities. While current software solutions solely provide passive historical reporting, APTARE StorageConsole enables users to obtain enhanced management and usability of their enterprise-wide VERITAS NetBackup™ environment by providing an intelligent, Web-based interface for the collection, display and notification of backup and recovery processes from three active vantage points: historical, real-time and predictive.

The historical view from APTARE StorageConsole 4.0 includes the centralized and customizable display of capacity, performance and utilization data for tape media, drives and libraries, as well as file-level detail and charge-back capabilities on all backups/restores. The software's real-time intelligence includes up-to-the-minute backup operations dashboards and active management features such as point-n-click restores. Utilizing a customer-tunable revolutionary algorithm, APTARE StorageConsole 4.0 additionally provides detailed predictive media information by collaborating past, present and future backup volumes, usage trends, media expiration statistics and failure rates to accurately forecast media consumption and availability, and pinpoint media shortages before they impact data recoverability.

"We consistently hear from our customers the growing concern about the inefficient and unpredictable utilization of their tape media, drives and libraries, especially because of high media costs and complex underlying backup software," states Richard Clark, APTARE President and CEO. "APTARE StorageConsole 4.0 directly solves these issues by providing consolidated, adaptable and automated backup resource management dashboards to illuminate media shortages and proactively identify future media consumption."

"Complying with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements made our backup and recovery success extremely critical," states Aaron Huslage, Storage Services Administrator for CNF, Inc. "By running a more efficient, highly proactive backup environment using APTARE StorageConsole, we increased our backup and recovery success to meet our specific business objectives and can now prove compliance down to the file-level with clear reporting accountability."

"With ever-increasing storage demands and fixed assets in labor and hardware, optimizing our environment was a primary IT goal which APTARE StorageConsole 4.0 enabled us to meet." states Dennis Dwyer, Manager of Systems Software for TECO Energy. "Centralizing the management of our entire backup landscape truly streamlined our processes. Now, I simply click on my personalized homepage to know exactly where my backup environment stands at any given moment. This has truly bridged the gap between reality and perception across different management and IT groups."

APTARE StorageConsole 4.0 provides:

• Consolidated enterprise-wide backup resource management for VERITAS NetBackup disk and tape environments
• File-level drill-down detail of success and failure metrics
• Secure end-user initiated on-demand restores with wild-card file or folder search capabilities
• Media availability, expiration and consumption forecasting and predictive analysis
• Intelligent diagnostics to pinpoint slow, long running or stalled backup jobs in real-time
• Event correlation of multiplexed backup jobs
• Customizable financial policies and charge-back invoicing
• Web-services Software Development Kit (SDK) for customized data mining
• Service level tracking, trending and notifications via email, SNMP and event logs
• Centralized and customizable 100% Web-based portal

Live demonstrations of APTARE StorageConsole 4.0 are currently available, contact for details.

About APTARE

Founded in 1993, APTARE provides leading-edge storage software and services to enterprises worldwide. The company's flagship storage software product, APTARE StorageConsole, makes 100% backup and recovery success achievable. By providing file-level metrics, service level tracking, predictive resource consumption analysis and charge-back billing tools, APTARE StorageConsole empowers organizations with the ability to optimize their backup infrastructure to achieve recovery success and significant operational cost reductions. APTARE is a privately held company with offices in Campbell, CA and New York, NY. For more information, visit www.aptare.com or contact us at .

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