R1Soft Introduces Site License Partnership Option for Continuous Data Protection Software

Houston, TX -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/07/2007 -- Righteous Software (http://www.r1soft.com), a developer of disk-based backup solutions, announced today that for a limited time its line of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) applications will be available on a Site License Partnership basis. The program will allow select companies to become a partner of the company's data protection solutions for a minimal investment.

Datacenters in need of a Continuous Data Protection solution are eligible to participate. When admitted into the program, participating partners receive all required software licensing to protect all data within their facility with R1Soft's Continuous Data Protection Solutions. The number of site licenses issued each year will be limited.

"The site license partnership program is an excellent opportunity for datacenters to provide value-added data protection services for their clients, especially those in markets required to meet specific data protection requirements. To this end, our products provide regulatory compliance for an array of different industries, including financial services and healthcare," said David Wartell, Righteous Software founder and CEO.

The program was created by popular demand after existing R1Soft customers hoped they could use the data protection software through their datacenter. The first site license was issued to ThePlanet / EV1Servers, located in Houston, Texas.

"Our solutions are at a price point that will encourage anyone with a datacenter to become a Continuous Data Protection Solution provider," said Wartell. "R1Soft is growing very rapidly, and in order to maintain the highest level of support and maintenance, we have decided to only accept a limited number of new site license partners each year."

R1Soft's CDP products diverge significantly from traditional backup technologies, which essentially copy files at intervals from hard disks to another medium, such as a tape drive. These methods often only provide data protection on a daily or weekly basis, resulting in large losses of data in the event of a disaster. R1Soft's CDP Server, however, monitors changes to the disk as they happen, thereby reducing backup windows to seconds or minutes. It also affords even busy servers a significantly higher level of reliability in the event of a disaster, without the consumption of a large amount of system resources.

For more information about R1Soft, please visit http://www.r1soft.com or call 1-800-956-6198.

About Righteous Software
Founded in 2003, Righteous Software is a provider of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) software. Offering low cost, scalable and high-performance products, the company has quickly been recognized by industry leaders as the standard for Linux data protection.

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Righteous Software (R1Soft) Provides HIPAA, SOX, GLBA Compliant Continuous Data Protection Solutions

Houston, TX -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/23/2007 -- Righteous Software (http://www.r1soft.com), a developer of disk-based backup solutions, announced today its line of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) applications are designed to be compliant with recent data privacy and security legislation in the health care and financial service industries.

Specially, R1Soft's products meet the rigorous requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), regulating the health care industry, and both the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, each regulating the financial services industry.

"By providing unified backup solutions that can meet the individualized needs of many unique vertical markets, we are able to broaden the appeal for our products," said David Wartell, Righteous Software founder and CEO. "Both the healthcare and financial services industries are experiencing rapid transformations in the way data must be stored and secured. These changes present an excellent opportunity for R1Soft to play a pivotal role in the management of this information."

According HIPAA regulations, healthcare providers, clearing houses, and all entities that process individually identifiable health records, must make every reasonable effort to be HIPAA compliant with regards to the privacy and security of Protected Health Information. R1Soft's products deliver this compliance by meeting all HIPAA security requirements. The company also exceeds HIPAA disaster recovery requirements with its Bare-Metal restore technology.

"In developing our Continuous Data Protection backup solutions, we opted to create an operating environment of not only flexibility and scalability, but also of unparalleled security and reliability. By focusing on these areas, we are able to meet the standards of many pieces of new, leading legislation," said Wartell. "We also look forward to helping customers meet the needs of future regulatory requirements, as enhancements in Information Technology edge many industries toward the retention of greater amounts of data for longer periods of time."

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, each designed to safeguard against accounting errors and scandals, requires electronic records to be retained for 5 years following their creation, and that organizations provide easy-access for auditors and regulators to obtain stored records. R1Soft meets these needs by offering support for storing data in offsite locations, and by using disk-based storage so data is quickly and easily retrievable

For more information about R1Soft, please visit http://www.r1soft.com or call 1-800-956-6198.

About Righteous Software (R1Soft)
Founded in 2003, Righteous Software is a provider of continuous data protection software. Offering low cost, scalable and high-performance products, the company has quickly been recognized by industry leaders as the standard for Linux data protection.

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Righteous Software Lays Groundwork for Continuous Data Protection Product Line

Houston, TX -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/12/2007 -- Righteous Software (http://www.r1soft.com), a developer of disk-based backup solutions, announced today it will soon begin marketing its innovative backup technology under the Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Server brand. Its products are currently sold under the Righteous Software header.

The branding shift will be unveiled in phases throughout the coming months. In late January, the company plans to roll out a new version of its Web site bearing the CDP name, and in February it plans to release its much anticipated Continuous Data Protection support for Windows servers.

"As a relatively new technology, Continuous Data Protection represents a market that is emerging and rapidly making its way to the Information Technology mainstream," said David Wartell, Righteous Software founder and CEO. "It is important that Righteous Software positions itself to remain a highly competitive and leading solutions provider in the coming months and years."

Currently, both Microsoft DPM and Symantec's Backup Exec provide similar CDP solutions for the Windows market, which Righteous Software hopes to counter with its February release. In the Linux market, however, Righteous Software is the only company offering genuine CDP solutions.

Righteous Software's CDP products diverge significantly from traditional backup technologies, which essentially copy files at intervals from hard disks to another medium, such as a tape drive. These methods often only provide data protection on a daily or weekly basis, resulting in large losses of data in the event of a disaster. Righteous Software's CDP Server, however, monitors changes to the disk as they happen, thereby reducing backup periods to seconds or minutes. It also affords even busy servers a significantly higher level of reliability in the event of a disaster, without the consumption of a large amount of system resources.

"The difference between our backup solutions and traditional methods is quite significant. With Righteous CDP Server, our clients can create in excess of one-hundred recovery points per day—and in a disaster situation, this can result in only minutes of lost data, as opposed to days or even weeks. For many corporations, this literally represent savings in the millions of dollars," said Wartell.

Righteous Software currently produces Continuous Data Protection solutions designed for data centers, Web hosting providers, and other firms using Linux servers.

For more information about Righteous Software, please visit http://www.r1soft.com or call 1-800-956-6198.

About Righteous Software
Founded in 2003, Righteous Software is a provider of continuous data protection software. Offering low cost, scalable and high-performance products, the company has quickly been recognized by industry leaders as the standard for Linux data protection.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Houston, TX -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/18/2006 -- Righteous Software (http://www.r1soft.com), a developer of disk-based backup solutions, introduced today a new method for booting servers into disaster recovery mode, allowing administrators to execute a Bare-Metal data restoration.

Previously, there had been only two methods available for executing a Bare-Metal Restore—either using a boot CD-ROM, which requires physical access to the server, or using the Pre-Boot Execution Environment (PXE), which requires a specially configured data center network with DHCP and TFTP enabled.

Many datacenters do not support PXE, and a large number of small to medium sized hosts do not have physical access to their servers, preventing them from utilizing either method effectively.

Subsequently, Righteous Software has today introduced Live Boot, which allows server administrators to initiate disaster recovery mode remotely on their Linux servers and execute a Bare-Metal restore through the commonly used Secure Shell protocol, or SSH.

"With the introduction several months ago of our control panel-integrated backup solutions, we have gained a significant number of small to medium sized Web hosts who have vastly different requirements and barriers than larger hosts and datacenters," said David Wartell, Righteous Software founder and CEO. "Today's release is designed to create additional capabilities for clients without physical access to their servers or without high-level network permissions. Shared hosts utilizing dedicated servers are such an example."

To utilize Live Boot, Righteous Software clients must first download a copy of the application from the company's software download site. The application should then be uploaded and executed to the respective server, at which point disaster recovery mode can be initiated. Alternatively, Live Boot can be installed on a server before a disaster. This adds a new boot loader option (GRUB or LILO) for disaster recovery mode.

Righteous Software also announced today initial details of its next release, a Windows-based backup product. Currently, the company only offers data backup solutions for servers running Linux.

"While our Windows product remains under development, we will have a version available for release in early February of next year," said Wartell. "We are certainly excited to introduce a product to serve the growing body of Windows Web hosts with all the same great features as those that have made our current Linux products successful."

The current version of Righteous Backup relies on continuous data protection, which creates backups of servers at the sector level of hard disks, only copying disk sectors that changed following previous backups. This unique technology allows Righteous Backup to offer Bare-Metal Restore, a feature enabling the restoration of data to a server that can be performed solely and directly from a backup disk image. While conventional methods of Bare-Metal restorations require hard drives to be first partitioned and the operating system installed, Bare-Metal restorations with the Righteous Backup products do not.

By adding continuous data protection to hosting environments, backup images can be taken several times a day—even hourly—meaning the amount of data lost in a disaster is significantly reduced, especially when compared to traditional backup solutions.

For more information about Righteous Software, please visit http://www.r1soft.com or call 1-800-956-6198.

About Righteous Software
Founded in 2003, Righteous Software is a provider of innovative disk-based backup solutions. Offering low cost, scalable and integrated products, the company has quickly been recognized by industry leaders as the standard for Linux disk-based backups.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm