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AVAIL SOLUTIONS INTRODUCES INTEGRITY FOR MAC OS X SERVERS

Avail Solutions, a provider of innovative data protection software, introduced the INTEGRITY backup and recovery software solution for Mac OS X. Using INTEGRITY, Macintosh servers such as the Xserve G5 and Xserve RAID will manage the data protection requirements of a complete Macintosh environment as well as a heterogeneous network.

INTEGRITY's ability to support hard disk-based storage, single tape drives, autoloaders and larger tape libraries with multiple tape drives, is a critical feature for customers that require a shorter backup window. INTEGRITY is also uniquely designed to support any combination of hardware including integrated disk-to-disk-to-tape solutions (D2D2T), providing the critical software element that gives D2D2T solutions true information lifecycle management capabilities. Ideally suited for Mac OS X, INTEGRITY provides the performance and scalability for which Macintosh servers are known. INTEGRITY is also capable of supporting a mixed environment of SCSI, IDE and/or Apple FireWire technologies.

"Mac OS X users expect a high level of quality and performance in their products and INTEGRITY is built to those high standards," stated Randy Thorburn, vice president of marketing of Avail Solutions. "INTEGRITY is the first enterprise level data protection product available for either a pure Macintosh environment, or a mixed environment where the Mac platform is utilized as a prominent data protection host. Our port of INTEGRITY to Mac OS X illustrates our commitment to supporting high-performance architectures, such as Macintosh, in order to provide sound data protection solutions for our customers."

"Xserve RAID combines leading-edge storage technologies for superior capacity and data protection," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of worldwide developer relations. "With Integrity, Avail Solutions offers a comprehensive data backup software that helps our enterprise customers protect their most valuable asset."

"The availability of INTEGRITY on the Mac OS X platform provides our customers with new options in data protection software for both our SCSI or FireWire PacketLoaders," stated Kerry Brock, vice president of marketing at tape library manufacturer Exabyte.

INTEGRITY's complete suite of data protection modules available for Mac OS X includes the client modules that manage backup and restore functions, the server module, which enables a Mac to provide storage management services, and the managed replication and protected data migration utilities, which move and/or copy data throughout a storage hierarchy to support D2D2T appliances.