Backup Technology Named Partner of the Year by Leading Information Recovery Management Provider

(I-Newswire) July 9, 2008 - Leeds, UK – July 9, 2008 – Backup Technology today announced that it has been named Partner of the Year by leading information recovery management platform provider, Asigra Inc. The award recognises Backup Technology for outstanding innovations in the deployment and application of Asigra's service-oriented backup and recovery platform as well as best practices in ensuring excellent customer satisfaction. Backup Technology was recognised for its achievements at Asigra's recently held Innovations Conference.

Using the Asigra Televaulting™, Backup Technology offers remote, online storage and back up solutions that enable companies of all sizes to securely protect their data. By hosting and managing all files and charging a monthly fee, Backup Technology provides a 100% failsafe system that supports business continuity and disaster recovery.

Asigra seeks new and innovative deployments of its Televaulting information recovery management platform, whether deployed for protecting virtualised servers, large distributed organisations or multi-location data centre environments. This year, Asigra bestowed awards upon its partners and customers based on these innovations as applied to addressing business challenges. Backup Technology was recognised for it ability to establish itself as THE UK's leading online backup and disaster recovery provider in just three years.


"We are proud to have Backup Technology as part of our expanding community of partners," said Asigra CEO David Farajun. "With innovations from both a technology and service perspective, Backup Technology is clearly a premier provider of solutions that address information recovery. We thank all our partners and customers for attending the conference, sharing their best practices and innovative applications, and congratulate those recognised for excellence."

"It's an amazing honour to be named Asigra Partner of Year," commented Simon Chappell, Director, Backup Technology. "Our professional services approach as well as the support we receive from Asigra has been key to our success. We look forward to building our customer base even further over the coming years."

About Asigra
Asigra is the award-winning leader in agentless information recovery management empowering service-oriented business continuity for the real-time enterprise. Asigra Televaulting™, the company's service-oriented information recovery management platform, is in use by hundreds of IT outsourcers who deliver managed backup and recovery services and enterprises to protect more than 50,000 locations internationally. Televaulting provides simple, centralized management of the information recovery process, ensuring information availability while eliminating the capital and operational expenses associated with agent-based solutions. Founded in 1986, Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with partner offices around the world. For more information, visit www.asigra.com.

About Backup Technology
Backup Technology is the UK's leading online backup & disaster recovery provider, protecting more than 500 terabytes of data, comprising of more than 2 billion files. Formed in 2005, Backup Technology specialises in the provision of secure automated online backup services to SMEs and enterprises.

The company has considerable expertise in performing disaster recovery on individual servers and entire networks to ensure that customers have complete business continuity, and offers worldwide support for all customers and data types from 10GB to 100TB.
Backup Technology's solution is powered by Asigra. For more information, please see: www.backup-technology.com

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