SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA and MARLBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS – October 24, 2005 – Yipes Enterprise Services, Inc. (www.yipes.com) and LiveVault ® Corporation (www.livevault.com) today announced availability of Yipes PROTECT, a fully automated backup and recovery solution for enterprises. 

 

The partnership between Yipes, the leading global provider of managed, end-to-end Ethernet-based business solutions, and LiveVault, the leading provider of online backup and recovery solutions for businesses, provides enterprise customers a truly complete data recovery and protection option that is unique in the marketplace.

 

Yipes PROTECT powered by LiveVault, provides continuous disk-based online backup and guaranteed recovery of data to ensure business continuity while at the same time presenting a secure and cost-effective archiving option to comply with regulatory requirements. 

 

Integral to Yipes PROTECT is Yipes’ proprietary RestoreNOW –- an industry first that ensures timely data retrieval by allowing real-time increases in available bandwidth to accommodate high-volume backup or emergency recovery events. RestoreNOW eliminates the need to overprovision bandwidth -- a long-standing concern among businesses utilizing online backup services for emergency data recovery. RestoreNOW is also backed by industry-leading service level agreements (SLAs) covering metro, national and international customers.

 

Yipes PROTECT provides unparalleled data protection and recovery capabilities that address all four aspects of data protection – data backup, offsite storage, archiving and data recovery – simply guaranteeing the safety of the data.

 

Through LiveVault, Yipes PROTECT delivers automatic and continuous data protection (CDP) to secure Exchange, SQL, other databases and applications, as well as standard file servers. All data is backed up via a secure connection and archived in off-site data vaults, where it is available for immediate recovery in the event of a system failure, virus, human error or other disaster. Yipes PROTECT is broadly applicable across industries, including financial services, legal, healthcare, education, media, technology, professional services and government.

 

“Business continuity is a major concern of law firms around the country. This service provides an integrated set of tools, processes and communications that are a critical element in a complete business continuity solution,” said Peter Kennedy, co-founder of Kraft Kennedy & Lesser, Inc., a leading technology consultancy for law firms and corporate law departments.

 

“Our partnership with LiveVault allows us to deliver best-of-breed backup and recovery in conjunction with the vital on-demand bandwidth capabilities of RestoreNOW,” said Yipes’ Vice President of Marketing, Keao Caindec. “The combination gives businesses the peace of mind they need to focus more on their mission-critical projects and less on the challenges of unexpected events.”

 

“LiveVault’s backup and recovery solution delivers complete data protection by leveraging bandwidth to instantly, continuously and automatically move data to a remote location that’s safe from any disaster,” said Bob Cramer, president and CEO of LiveVault. “Yipes, with RestoreNOW, expands our reach to thousands of enterprises that not only have basic bandwidth to continuously backup data as it changes but also assured access to extra capacity in an emergency, so recovery is always reliable, quick and efficient.”

 

“Recent corporate/government research by Infonetics shows that storage applications are top priorities in the Ethernet services marketplace. The Yipes RestoreNOW bandwidth on-demand feature makes bandwidth limitations a non-issue for online recovery and backup applications,” stated Michael Howard, principal analyst at Infonetics Research. “I suspect that this summer’s hurricane season only heightened the profile of disaster recovery strategies at the enterprise level; this partnership and the launch of Yipes PROTECT service is quite timely for the market needs.”

 

About Yipes:
Winner of the Metro Ethernet Forum 2005 Service Provider of the Year Award for Outstanding Innovation, Yipes Enterprise Services, Inc. is the leading global provider of managed, end-to-end Ethernet solutions for enterprise customers.  Yipes offers a uniquely scalable suite of networking services that combine the speed, simplicity and cost effectiveness of native Ethernet with Yipes proprietary bandwidth-on-demand functionality. Yipes provides services in and between major metropolitan markets including: Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Hong Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, London, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Tokyo and Washington DC. For more information, visit www.yipes.com.

 

About LiveVault:
LiveVault Corporation is the leading provider of online backup and recovery solutions, completely automating end-to-end data protection. Uniquely coupling the speed and ease-of-use of disk-based backup with the security and convenience of network-based off-site protection, LiveVault InControl offers the simplest, yet most advanced data protection available to remote and branch offices, while LiveVault InSync provides the same advantages to small-and mid-sized businesses. Through its partnerships with IBM, Iron Mountain, BT, HP, Microsoft and others, LiveVault delivers automatic and continuous data protection (CDP), backing up server data, protecting it offsite at a secure, remote facility, archiving it, and making it immediately available for recovery 24x7 – guaranteed. For more information, please visit www.livevault.com or call 877-VAULT-ME or 508-460-6670.

 

Contacts:
Don Hunt
Lambert, Edwards & Associates, Inc.
616 233 0500 phone
mail@lambert-edwards.com

 

Christine Eyre, LiveVault
508-460-6670 ext. 328
ceyre@livevault.com

 

Jim McManus or Kathy Sucich (LiveVault)
Sparksource, Inc.
781-418-2400
jmcmanus@sparksource.com
ksucich@sparksource.com