COMPUTER RESELLER NEWS DECLARES LIVEVAULT HAS A LOCK ON ONLINE BACKUP

July 10, 2005 - Backup Direct, the leading supplier of online backup and recovery solutions for UK business, today announced that the LiveVault Online Backup and Recovery Service™ has been recommended by Computer Reseller News.

Computer Reseller News performed extensive testing and evaluation of the LiveVault Service as a solution for the backup, archiving and recovery of mission critical servers. CRN awarded the LiveVault Service four stars and a Recommended status

The review stated that "customers can enjoy a wide range of benefits when outsourcing their data protection needs using a service such as LiveVault. Businesses can avoid having to make costly hardware and software infrastructure investments. Also, outsourcing a digital archive solution saves the customer from having to hire and train additional IT staff, fulfil retrieval requests, store and manage physical media (such as tapes or platters), preserve and migrate media, and oversee associated data centre activities-all time-consuming and expensive tasks.

Key features of the LiveVault Service include:

Fully automated service-eliminates the risk of human error

Disk-based backup and recovery-removes the failure and burden associated with tape

Integrated backup, offsite storage, archiving and recovery-for complete data protection

Automatic offsite storage via the Internet-enables 100% guaranteed recovery of data

Onsite LiveVault TurboRestore appliance (optional)-for local rapid recovery of data

Continuous data protection (CDP)-transmits only the bytes that change as they change

"This endorsement of the LiveVault Service by a leading IT publication provides credibility to the services we offer and the entire online backup industry as a whole said Brett Raynes, Managing Director of Backup Direct.

About Backup Direct
Backup Direct is a leading supplier of online data backup services for UK business. Backup Direct delivers: automated data backup, secure off-site storage, archiving and guaranteed fast data recovery. Clients receive reliable and secure data protection to maximise business continuity in case of disaster. Backup Direct's combination of business focus, leading technology, operational systems, SLAs and committed support combine to ensure simple, secure and affordable data protection. Founded in 2002, Backup Direct has more than 2000 UK business clients protecting over 30 terabytes of customer data. It is a leading Tier One provider of Iron Mountain Digital Services in the UK. Visit the company's website at www.backupdirect.net or call 0800 0 789 437.

About Iron Mountain Digital
Iron Mountain Digital is the world's leading provider of data backup/recovery and archiving software and services. The technology arm of Iron Mountain Incorporated offers a comprehensive suite of data protection and e-records management software and services to thousands of companies around the world, directly and through a world-wide network of channel partners. Iron Mountain Digital is based in Southborough, Mass. with European headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany.