BakBone Earns Top Honors in Four out of Five Categories in the Diogenes Labs-Storage Magazine Quality Awards

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2006--BakBone Software(R) (Pink Sheets:BKBO), a global provider of heterogeneous integrated data protection solutions, today announced that its flagship backup and recovery software NetVault(R): Backup has won the second annual Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award in the enterprise-class backup and recovery category, featured in the November 2006 issue of Storage magazine (http://storagemagazine.techtarget.com/magItem/0,291266,sid35_gci12286 63,00.html). (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) BakBone secured the number one overall ranking against a field of five other enterprise competitors by winning four out of five categories, including product reliability, initial product quality, technical support and sales force competence.

"We're thrilled that our customers recognize us as setting the standard for high performance data protection in heterogeneous enterprises," said Jim Johnson, president and CEO of BakBone Software. "This award is confirmation of the value, reliability and functionality that customers derive from NetVault: Backup including disk-based data protection, disaster recovery, encryption, and tight application integration. It further proves that BakBone is an increasingly attractive alternative to the expensive and complicated enterprise-class backup products on the market today."

The industry's only award program based on objective, empirical and statistically valid assessment of product quality and reliability, the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award program is designed to quantify real-world experience factors by surveying IT professionals directly. For the enterprise backup and recovery software program, 500 respondents identified as backup and recovery users were assessed across five main categories: sales-force competence, product features, initial product quality, product reliability, and technical support.

Among the findings from this survey, respondents ranked BakBone NetVault: Backup first in four of the five categories. With compliance and data availability being key data protection issues to enterprise users, most notably, BakBone bested all other product entries in the product quality and reliability categories. According to respondents, NetVault: Backup is also the easiest product to deploy among enterprise products. In the sales force competence category, the results highlighted a vendor's ability to recruit, train, service and support quality resellers. BakBone led this category with a runaway high score centered on the flexibility of BakBone sales representatives. BakBone also ranked number one in the technical support category. As part of its industry-leading technical support offerings, BakBone offers regional-based support and rapid incident response.

About BakBone NetVault: Backup

For data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity, the NetVault(R): Backup product line provides enterprise-class data protection for complex heterogeneous IT environments, regardless of size. NetVault: Backup's flexible, modular architecture delivers proven reliability and high-performance, with an unmatched combination of features designed to meet current and future data protection needs. This unique flexibility reduces deployment costs and TCO by enabling customers to implement a NetVault solution that matches their current system and network resources. The NetVault: Backup optional components include NetVault: Backup Application Plugin Modules, NetVault: Backup Shared Virtual Disk, and NetVault: Backup SmartClients(TM).

About The Diogenes Labs-Storage Magazine Quality Awards

The Diogenes Labs-Storage Magazine Quality Awards are designed to identify and recognize products that have proven their quality in reliability in actual use. The results are derived from a survey of qualified Storage subscribers, who assessed products in five main categories: sales competence, product features, initial quality, reliability and technical support. Their methodology incorporates statistically valid polling that eliminates market share as a factor. Their objective is to identify the most reliable products on the market regardless of vendor name, reputation or size. Products are rated on a scale from 1.0 to 8.0, where 8.0 is the most favorable possible score. For more information about this awards program, visit www.storagemagazine.com.

About BakBone Software, Inc.

BakBone Software is a leading international data protection solution provider that develops and distributes heterogeneous data backup, restore, disaster recovery, replication and storage reporting software for network storage and open-systems environments. BakBone delivers scalable solutions that address the complex demands of large enterprise environments, as well as small- to medium-sized businesses. Founded in 2000, BakBone products are used by Fortune 1000 corporations and domestic and international government entities. Distributed through a select global network of strategic partners, resellers and solution providers, interested companies can learn more information about BakBone's products and services and its newly introduced IDP vision at www.bakbone.com or email info@bakbone.com.

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CONTACT: BakBone Software, Inc.
Dani Kenison, 858-795-7584
dani.kenison@bakbone.com

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