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IOMEGA, MICROLITE REVOLUTIONIZE LINUX BACKUP

Microlite Corp is pleased to announce immediate support for the new Iomega REV drive for use as a backup and disaster recovery storage device under the Linux operating environment.

The Iomega REV drive, which began shipping today, provides 35GB (uncompressed) of high performance, removable storage in a disk smaller than a deck of cards. The Iomega REV drive offers the removeability of tape with the speed and ease of use of a hard drive. Microlite BackupEDGE detects and supports the Iomega REV drive on all current Linux distributions with no special device drivers required.

"The value proposition for safe and secure Linux data protection just changed," said Dan Tracy, vice president of valued-added Linux distributor and integrator for Team 1 Systems Inc. "The Iomega REV drive outperforms all but the most expensive tape drives, at a fraction of the price, using media that will fit in your pocket or the palm of your hand."

"The new Iomega REV drive is a versatile product that changes the rules of data back up for small businesses, and Microlite's support makes the Iomega REV drive available immediately to literally millions of Linux owners," said Brian Reeves, product manager for REV technology at Iomega. "BackupEDGE enables the use of the REV drive today for what it does best, which is reliable backup and disaster recovery at a breakthrough price."

"Iomega has hit a home run with REV drive," said Tom Podnar, president of Microlite Corp. "With backup speeds that can exceed 1GB per minute, Linux users now have a clear alternative to tape for protecting mid-size installations, and our products make maximum use of REV media for data protection."

"The loss of customer data, accounting and business transaction records, intellectual property, proprietary reports and analyses, for example, can frequently paralyze a business," said Scott Sheehan, vice president of business development at Iomega Corp. "The new Iomega REV drive makes backup and system or file recovery tasks faster, easier and less costly for the user. Small business owners and IT managers will protect their important data even as they save in terms of system downtime."

BackupEDGE 2.0 has features that allow Linux users to take advantage of Iomega's REV drive as a reliable storage medium:

• Compression. Improved, standards-based compression can double or in some cases even triple the net capacity of the media, extending device usefulness to even larger systems.
• Verification. Both bit-level verify and full-file checksum verification ensures that archive integrity is intact, both at backup time and months or even years later.
• Strong Encryption (optional). Provides maximum protection for those planning strategies for HIPAA, PIPEDA or SB 1386 compliance, or just wanting to better secure their data.
• Instant File Restore. Average seek time to any file on a REV disk is under a second.
• Disaster Recovery. Every REV disk backup can be set to boot directly into RecoverEDGE smart disaster recovery for safe, automated restore from catastrophic system failure or other data loss, without requiring operating system re-installation.