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Sunnyvale, CA 94089

SAN FRANCISCO (RSA 2008, Booth #532), April 7, 2008 – Mirapoint Software, the secure messaging experts, today announced the Mirapoint Reputation Hurdle™, a global IP reputation service that will determine the legitimacy of the incoming email traffic, providing an additional defense layer to the RazorGate security appliance. The company will demonstrate the new capabilities at RSA 2008 at Booth #532, taking place at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, April 7-10, 2008. 

Mirapoint’s Reputation Hurdle provides the best of breed IP reputation service to guard against unwanted senders.  Serving as the first layer of protection against spam, phishing and malware including: worms, Trojan horses, rootkits, spyware, adware and zombies/botnets, Mirapoint’s Reputation Hurdle removes up to 80 percent of unwanted threats by blocking malicious email before it reaches the mail system.  Protecting businesses from the onslaught of spam and virus attacks, Reputation Hurdle leverages the collective intelligence of 700,000 detection points to provide the most accurate reputation service in the industry.

“Over 120 billion messages are sent by zombies daily,” said Alan Elliot, vice president of marketing, Mirapoint.  “Mirapoint offers one of the most comprehensive messaging security solutions for enterprises with the introduction of Reputation Hurdle.  Reputation Hurdle extends our leading SMTP envelope technology which includes MailHurdle, Dual Scan antispam engines and SPF, making RazorGate the industry’s most comprehensive security solution.” 

“Mirapoint is a premier email security player because they offer a full spectrum of security defenses,” said Michael Osterman, president and founder of Osterman Research.  “Mirapoint’s Reputation Hurdle adds an additional outer layer of protection based on sender behavior, offering a comprehensive protection against spam, phishing and malware.  Because Reputation Hurdle identifies and eradicates up to 80 percent of unwanted email, it also helps conserve valuable system resources.”

HONG KONG – April 1, 2008 – Mirapoint Software, the secure messaging experts, and Wharf T&T eBusiness Limited (WeB), an IT services subsidiary of Wharf T&T Limited today announced a strategic relationship to support growing requirements for secure messaging solutions in the Asia Pacific region including the China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand markets.  Growing demand for secure messaging solutions in the Asia Pacific region is a key driver for the strategic alliance.  Through the agreement Mirapoint is able to leverage Wharf T&T and its IT subsidiary’s extensive infrastructure and highly reputable market presence to scale along with increasing demand, while WeB is able to reach new customers and increase value for existing customers through new secure messaging offerings and a low total cost of ownership.  

"Our presence in Asia Pacific is very established and we continue to see tremendous growth in the region,” said Jeffrey Witous, CEO, Mirapoint Software.  “Wharf T&T’s network infrastructure, proven information technology, IT development and integration capability, customer support expertise, and strong connections with other ISP’s in the region strengthen Mirapoint’s worldwide distribution reach and position us for scalable growth in Asia Pacific and beyond.” 

The two partners will collaborate on technology development including localization, double-byte support, and other region-specific messaging and messaging security capabilities.  As organizations adopt a messaging strategy, flexibility, scalability, reliability, and security top the list of priorities.  The Mirapoint and Wharf T&T alliance will enable the companies to more accurately address the region’s evolving requirements for secure messaging.

“Enterprises are concerned with the reliability and security issues on their networks and most notably on their messaging networks," said William Kwan, Director of WeB.  “It is not only the incoming threats of spam, viruses and hacker attacks that pose problems, but the emerging regulatory and policy-enforcement requirements that increasingly impact their incoming and outgoing traffic.  WeB is pleased to team with Mirapoint, to deliver scalable and reliable messaging solutions to the Asia Pacific market. 

"We are impressed by Mirapoint’s pioneering approach to provide unique secure e-mail solutions to customers.  Mirapoint’s innovative and comprehensive secure messaging appliance pre-integrates, certifies and ensures compatibility of hardware, software and services; resulting in one of the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) metrics in the industry,” added William Kwan.  “The Mirapoint e-mail solution also features integrated, multi-layered virus and spam filters to offer the industry’s best protection against security threats.  The leading edge MailHurdleTM  technology, RAPID Anti-Spam Technology, Global Detection Center and the use of “e-mail DNA” technologies to classify real spam work seamlessly together to achieve a catch rate in excess of 98% with minimal ‘false positives’”.

As part of the alliance, Mirapoint and WeB will also team to deliver greater value to existing customers, through joint service and support.  “We have world-class technology and product development expertise, which is now well-complemented by local deployment, service and support for the growing markets in Asia”, said Jeffrey Witous, CEO, Mirapoint Software Inc.  “Mirapoint customers in the Asia Pacific region will enjoy access to Wharf T&T’s extensive local and regional infrastructure and excellent customer support team”. 

Secure Messaging Infrastructure for Enterprises
Mirapoint email server, archiving and security appliances offer carrier-class, 99.999 percent uptime reliability and the industry’s lowest TCO.  Mirapoint’s Message Server is the only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access and management.  Mirapoint’s RazorGate email security appliances provide multi-layered protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam, and virus threats, with spam and virus catch-rates upwards of 98 percent.  Mirapoint’s Messaging Reporter delivers a holistic view of spam, virus, and email trends across the messaging network.  The Mirapoint Directory Server serves as the backbone to the messaging infrastructure providing a foundation for storing and managing message routing information, user profiles, and access privileges.  Combined, Mirapoint appliances deliver a secure messaging infrastructure to enterprises worldwide.

About Mirapoint Software
Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 120 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide.  Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email.  Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.  For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at http://www.mirapoint.com/.

About WeB
Wharf T&T eBusiness Limited (WeB), an IT services subsidiary of Wharf T&T Limited, specializes in the provision of broadband enabling applications and web-based application services. These services, developed by its IT specialists and experienced marketing practitioners, are primarily catered for the SME segment. WeB believes that the adoption of e-marketing skills and technology is vital for SMEs to compete in this global economy. Its vision is to provide SMEs with low-cost and powerful e-marketing services and educate them utilizing this highly effective tool and enabling technology.

WeB promotes two e-marketing practice standards in the industry, namely, the minimum standard prescribed by the HKSAR Government and the best practice led by the industry.  WeB is active in developing services to support these two standards. 

To support the minimum standard, WeB launched the Public Unsubscribe Facility (http://www.unsubscribe.com.hk/) to help implement the unsubscribe requirements of the UEM Ordinance in September 2007.  For the best e-marketing practice, WeB launched the first of its kind game based e-marketing learning platform in May and unveiled its flagship email marketing service - WeB-eM in August 2007.

Going forward, WeB-123.com will continue to provide new services and know-how that help foster the adoption of e-marketing by SMEs.  For more information, please visit http://www.web-123.com/

About Wharf T&T
Established in 1995, Wharf T&T has been the second largest fixed line operator investing over HK$5 billion in its own telecommunications network infrastructure. Having achieved an approximately 18% market share in the business sector, Wharf T&T specializes in enabling its customers’ businesses through quality ICT products and services.

Wharf T&T possesses the best-of-breed metro IP network enabling a full range of voice, data networking, Internet access and video services to address the dynamic demand of business customers. Riding on the sophisticated broadband infrastructure, Wharf T&T eBusiness Limited (WeB), a wholly owned subsidiary established in January 2007, positions itself as a product powerhouse to deliver broadband enabling applications and web-based services for SME customers enhancing their competitiveness through e-marketing adoption.   

COL, another wholly owned subsidiary of Wharf T&T with over 30 years experience in the IT sector, possesses unmatched credentials in its data centre and business continuity services. Such value propositions to the corporate and enterprise sectors are further enriched through its well renowned professional service engine and its systems integration capabilities empowered by the gold accreditation from Cisco.

Wharf T&T is a core member of The Wharf Group, one of the largest conglomerates in Hong Kong. The Wharf Group also owns i-CABLE Communications Limited, the leading cable television station and Internet access service provider in Hong Kong.

For further information about both Wharf T&T and The Wharf Group, please visit Wharf T&T website at http://www.wharftt.com/.

Press Contact: 
Kevin Chan                                                                             Arlene Lim
Bentley Communications                                                            Loughlin/Michaels Group for Mirapoint
(852) 2827 2131                                                                      408.910.3112
kevinchan@bentleyhk.com                                                         arlene@lmgpr.com

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. – January 28, 2008 – Mirapoint, the secure messaging experts, today announced the availability of the next generation Message Server™ email appliance and RazorGate ® email security appliance.  Mirapoint has a proven leadership in secure messaging appliances and is now raising the bar with their 8^th generation platform.  Delivering ultimate reliability with the industry’s lowest total-cost of-ownership (TCO), Mirapoint increases capacity and security with the company’s new family of appliances.

“Email is the most critical communications tool for enterprises today.  It is critical for messaging solutions to scale to the ever increasing storage and security requirements,” said Alan Elliot, vice president of marketing, Mirapoint.  “Our appliance based approach has proven to be the most reliable and scalable messaging solution in the market and delivers the lowest cost of ownership.”

Mirapoint Message Server S6000 – Enhanced N+1 Architecture for Non-Stop Email Availability

The Mirapoint Message Server offers feature rich email, group calendaring, address book and integrated policy management in an easy to use appliance form factor. Offering an improved SAN architecture, Mirapoint’s Message Server S6000 allows for N+1 redundancy across the entire fabric for support of mission critical messaging.  When combined with Mirapoint’s unique Geographic Mirroring architecture, the ability to replicate the email system in different regions, the Message Server performs consistently with virtually zero down time.  The new S6000 uses dual Intel Quad-Core Xeon processors and Mirapoint’s hacker-proof MOS operating system, and is the world’s most scalable email server. 

The S6000 is the flagship of the Mirapoint Message Server product line which also includes the M6000 and M600 servers which are perfectly suited for small and mid-sized enterprise email deployments. The S6000 continues to leverage Mirapoint’s strategic partnership with NetApp.  Because the Mirapoint Message Server is integrated with NetApp’s FAS storage systems, enterprises are assured that their business critical email is always protected. 

Mirapoint RazorGate 6000 – Delivering Unparalleled Multi-Layered Security

Mirapoint’s RazorGate email security appliance delivers industry leading protection from spam, virus and hacker attacks. It provides real-time updates to close the window of vulnerability resulting in airtight security at the edge of the network.  The new Mirapoint RazorGate 6000 offers enterprises increased security with multiple scanning engines for virus and spam defense to address the constantly evolving security threats.  In addition, the RazorGate 6000 features support for Sender Policy Framework (SPF), Junk Mail Manager, and solid RBL support for additional layers of protection.

Mirapoint’s RazorGate MailHurdle connection management technology blocks up to 80 percent of threats at the network edge before network bandwidth, storage, processor and administration resources are wasted. In combination with Mirapoint’s multi-layered email security technologies such as RAPID Anti-Spam and zero hour RAPID Anti-Virus, customers can achieve overall catch-rates upwards of 98 percent with virtually zero false-positives. The RazorGate 6000 is the flagship of the award-winning RazorGate product line which also includes the RG600 and RG160 products which are perfectly suited for small and mid-sized deployments.

Michael Osterman, president and founder of Osterman Research, stated, “Enterprises are constantly searching for new ways to scale their messaging solutions.  With increased storage and security, Mirapoint’s new messaging appliances offer extremely high levels of uptime and protection, while still offering very low TCO.”

Pricing and Availability
Mirapoint Message Server and Mirapoint RazorGate appliances are available immediately.  Pricing is typically 50 percent of a comparable exchange deployment with greater performance and higher reliability.  Mirapoint Message Server pricing starts at $10,500.  Mirapoint RazorGate appliances are also available immediately with pricing starting at $8,300.

Secure Messaging Infrastructure for Enterprises

Mirapoint email server, archiving and security appliances offer carrier-class, 99.999 percent uptime reliability and the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).  Mirapoint’s Message Server is the only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access and management.  Mirapoint’s RazorGate email security appliances provide multi-layered protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam, and virus threats, with spam and virus catch-rates upwards of 98 percent.  Mirapoint’s Messaging Reporter delivers a holistic view of spam, virus, and email trends across the messaging network.  The Mirapoint Directory Server serves as the backbone to the messaging infrastructure providing a foundation for storing and managing message routing information, user profiles, and access privileges.  Combined, Mirapoint appliances deliver a secure messaging infrastructure to enterprises worldwide.

About Mirapoint

Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 120 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide.  Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email.  Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.  For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.

Press Contact:

Arlene Lim                                                                           
Loughlin/Michaels Group for Mirapoint
(408) 910-3112
arlene@lmgpr.com 

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. – December 17, 2007 – Mirapoint, the secure messaging experts, today announced that the company will offer free student email licenses to new higher education customers who purchase Mirapoint email and group calendaring licenses for their faculty and staff. 

In the past few years, free email services have become popular with some universities.  However, there are serious drawbacks in using free email services over the secure email solution that Mirapoint offers.  Free email brings uncertainties about security and privacy and limits an organization’s ability to enable rich collaboration between faculty and students, due to the limitations of separate email systems.  Mirapoint provides educational organizations with an appliance-based email and calendaring solution that enables full collaboration on a single platform, while eliminating the security risks and privacy issues associated with traditional free email offerings. 

“We are pleased to offer free student email licenses to higher education organizations,” said Alan Elliott, vice president of marketing, Mirapoint.  “Universities today require a combination of secure email and calendaring for a broad mix of users from students to faculty and staff.  Educational organizations can now take advantage of free student licenses with the benefits of Mirapoint’s appliance-based solution without losing control of their user base which can occur with traditional free email offerings.”

In addition to free student email licenses, Mirapoint’s messaging solution provides higher education organizations with a single collaborative platform for faculty, staff and students, with guaranteed privacy of email data and the reliability of an appliance-based solution.  Mirapoint’s messaging solution eliminates data mining threats, patching updates, arduous administrative requirements, and costly complicated deployments.  Other benefits of Mirapoint’s messaging solution include:

• Proven five-nines reliability (less than 6 minutes of downtime per year)
• Scalable to tens of thousands of users on a single appliance
• Completely brandable interfaces
• Compatible with Outlook and Entourage for those who want a desktop client
• Built-in storage options and SAN or NAS support
• Mobility support for Blackberry, as well as a multitude of smart phones on the market today
• Integrated anti-spam, anti-virus and content filtering options
• Archiving options for email management
• Centralized reporting tools to track real-time changes and threats in the network

Pricing and Availability
Mirapoint’s free student email licensing is available immediately to new higher education customers purchasing licenses for their faculty and staff.  

Secure Messaging Infrastructure for Educational Organizations

Mirapoint email server, archiving and security appliances offer carrier-class, 99.999 percent uptime reliability and the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).  Mirapoint’s Message Server is the only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access and management.  Mirapoint’s RazorGate email security appliances provide multi-layered protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam, and virus threats, with spam and virus catch-rates upwards of 98 percent.  Mirapoint’s Messaging Reporter delivers a holistic view of spam, virus, and email trends across the messaging network.  The Mirapoint Directory Server serves as the backbone to the messaging infrastructure providing a foundation for storing and managing message routing information, user profiles, and access privileges.  Combined, Mirapoint appliances deliver a secure messaging infrastructure to enterprises worldwide.

About Mirapoint

Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide.  Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email.  Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.  For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.

Press Contact:

Arlene Lim                                
Loughlin/Michaels Group for Mirapoint
(408) 910-3112
arlene@lmgpr.com 

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SEATTLE, (Educause 2007, Booth #1209) – October 23, 2007 – Mirapoint, the secure messaging expert, today announced that the company will be address email simplification strategies at EDUCAUSE 2007 Conference and Exposition at Booth #1209, taking place at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle, Wash., October 23-26, 2007.

Alan Elliot, Mirapoint’s senior director of business development will be speaking on “Multi-Point or Mirapoint: An Email Simplification Strategy,” on Thursday, October 25^th at 3:55 p.m. at Room 206.   As spam, viruses and malware threaten email networks many organizations have deployed point-solutions to manage these first generation problems.  Now archiving, compliance and storage represent the next set of challenges for email management.  Attendees will learn how appliance-based messaging systems circumvent these multi-faceted problems and the complexity caused by point solutions.

Mirapoint will also co-sponsor the opening reception in the EDUCAUSE 2007 Exhibit Hall on Tuesday, October 23^rd from 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. at exhibit hall 4B-F.

“Mirapoint simplifies the process of managing an organization’s email infrastructure,” said Barry Ariko, CEO of Mirapoint.  “Educational organizations require a messaging solution that is simple to deploy and manage, as well as provides the highest level of security, reliability and scalability.  Because Mirapoint’s appliance based solutions are designed specifically to meet these demands, over 200 higher education institutions now rely on the company’s secure messaging infrastructure to address their unique messaging challenges.”

Highlighting its commitment to educational market, Mirapoint today also introduced the Mirapoint Connector for Macs, enabling Mac users to synchronize their calendar, tasks and address book to their Mac applications, including Entourage.  (See today’s related release entitled, “Mirapoint Provides Universities with More Flexibility with Support for MAC OSX Platform.”)  In addition, Mirapoint announced that Endicott College has extended its Mirapoint email deployment to include faculty and staff.  (See today’s related release entitled, “Endicott College Extends Mirapoint Messaging Solution to Faculty and Staff.”)  

Secure Messaging Infrastructure for Educational Organizations

Mirapoint email server, archiving and security appliances offer carrier-class, 99.999 percent uptime reliability and the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).  Mirapoint’s Message Server is the only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access and management.  Mirapoint’s RazorGate email security appliances provide multi-layered protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam, and virus threats, with spam and virus catch-rates upwards of 98 percent.  Mirapoint’s Messaging Reporter delivers a holistic view of spam, virus, and email trends across the messaging network.  The Mirapoint Directory Server serves as the backbone to the messaging infrastructure providing a foundation for storing and managing message routing information, user profiles, and access privileges.  Combined, Mirapoint appliances deliver a secure messaging infrastructure to enterprises worldwide.

About EDUCAUSE Annual Conference

The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is a unique intersection of the interests of IT professionals in higher education, vendors who offer products and services to this market, and media representatives who cover this sector. Additional information can be found at http://www.educause.edu/e07.

About Mirapoint
Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.  For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.

Press Contact:
Arlene Lim
Loughlin/Michaels Group for Mirapoint
(408) 910-3112
arlene@lmgpr.com

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SEATTLE, (Educause 2007, Booth #1209) – October 23, 2007 – Mirapoint, the secure messaging expert, today announced that Endicott College has extended its Mirapoint email deployment to include faculty and staff.  Endicott initially implemented the Mirapoint Message Server™ for its student population in January 2007, when the solution was selected, deployed, provisioned and activated in less than two weeks, while students were off for their Winter Break.  Mirapoint’s successful deployment with Endicott College underscores the company’s ability to meet the needs of higher education customers with reliable, flexible and easy-to-deploy messaging solutions.

Located in Beverly, Mass., Endicott ranks number 17 among Baccalaureate Colleges (North) according the U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges 2008 report.  This second phase of the university’s Mirapoint deployment follows the incredible success of its initial roll out to the student population.  Endicott College had been using an open source solution that required significant IT resources for administration and management.  Additionally, the university was quickly approaching the 10 Megabyte (MB) capacity limit it had allocated to each student through the existing email solution.  At the end of the first term, the determination was made that the existing email system would not last another semester.

“Our EMUMAIL system was failing and we were quickly approaching our capacity limit.  The constant administration required was consuming our small IT department, yet we were not able to keep pace with student email usage practices; we knew we had to make a change immediately,” said Gary Kelley, chief information systems officer, Endicott College.  “Our only window of opportunity was during the Winter Break of 2007.  Mirapoint met the challenge, successfully deploying and activating the email system within a matter of days.”

Endicott had evaluated other messaging solutions and decided on Mirapoint based upon ease of deployment and administration.  The university has a small IT department to support the combined student, faculty and staff population of approximately 3,000.  Ease of use was a critical deciding factor.

“We evaluated other solutions but none afforded the administrative time savings Mirapoint provided.  For example, we calculated a Microsoft Exchange implementation would require at least two IT personnel to deploy and run it, and we simply don’t have those resources,” continued Kelley.  “With Mirapoint we went from spending two hours a day on our email system to spending two hours a week if that.”

Mirapoint Message Server has helped Endicott reduce administrative time, improve the reliability of its messaging environment, and extend the per-user capacity to support today’s email usage practices.  Endicott deployed the Mirapoint solution with 50 MB allocated to all students, and 100 MB to faculty and staff.  Increased capacity can be added as well.  The Mirapoint Message Server will also bring greater flexibility to Endicott’s messaging infrastructure to support future evolution.  As an example, the university has plans to migrate from point-of-presence (POP) servers to an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) environment so that local clients can access email on remote servers.  Endicott has also been impressed with the ease of porting data from administrative systems into the Mirapoint system.

“We are very pleased Endicott College has extended its Mirapoint deployment to include faculty and staff in addition to the student population,” said Barry Ariko, president and chief executive officer, Mirapoint.  “By removing administrative, feature and capacity constraints from their messaging infrastructures, universities such as Endicott can empower their constituents with the full productivity today’s email applications have to offer.”

EDUCAUSE attendees can learn more about Mirapoint messaging solutions by visiting booth #1209 at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle, Wash., October 23-26, 2007.

About the Mirapoint Message Server

The Mirapoint Message Server is a solid foundation for a secure messaging infrastructure, providing a standards-based platform that intelligently serves, secures and manages messages with multi-mode client access. Mirapoint appliances offer the industry’s best price-performance and the scalability to handle the most demanding messaging environments. The Message Server appliance includes advanced features such as group scheduling, calendaring and address book. For large, multi-tier deployments, the Message Server easily and seamlessly integrates with the RazorGate® and Directory Server™ appliances.

About Endicott College

Founded in 1939 by Dr. Eleanor Tupper and her husband, Dr. George O. Bierkoe, Endicott College is an innovative, vibrant, student-centered institution that supports undergraduate and graduate students in their pursuit of knowledge.  For more information on Endicott College, visit www.endicott.edu.

About Mirapoint

Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide.  Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email.  Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.  For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.

Press Contact:
Arlene Lim
Loughlin/Michaels Group for Mirapoint
(408) 910-3112
arlene@lmgpr.com

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SEATTLE, (Educause 2007, Booth #1209) – October 23, 2007 – Mirapoint, the secure messaging expert, today introduced the Mirapoint Connector for Macintosh, enabling Mac users to synchronize their calendar, tasks and address book to their Macintosh applications, including Microsoft Entourage. The synchronization of calendar and contact data to Macintosh provides students, facility and professors with more flexibility to collaborate using the built-in applications and technologies in Macintosh OSX platform.

“Mirapoint's Connector for Macintosh will enable Mac users to have a seamless experience between their favorite email and calendar clients and the Mirapoint Message Server,” says Barry Ariko, CEO, Mirapoint.  “This announcement highlights our commitment to support the varying needs of our customer base, especially in the education market where the Mac is very popular.”

EDUCAUSE attendees can learn more about Mirapoint’s messaging solutions by visiting booth #1209 at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle, Wash., October 23-26, 2007. 

Pricing and Availability

Mirapoint’s Connctor for Macintosh is available immediately.  The Mirapoint Connector for Macintosh is bundled into a comprehensive Group Calendar product suite which also enables a powerful web calendaring from any web browser, in addition to Outlook SynQ.

Secure Messaging Infrastructure

Mirapoint email server, archiving and security appliances offer carrier-class, 99.999 percent uptime reliability and the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).  Mirapoint’s Message Server is the only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access and management.  Mirapoint’s RazorGate email security appliances provide multi-layered protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam, and virus threats, with spam and virus catch-rates upwards of 98 percent.  Mirapoint’s Messaging Reporter delivers a holistic view of spam, virus, and email trends across the messaging network.  The Mirapoint Directory Server serves as the backbone to the messaging infrastructure providing a foundation for storing and managing message routing information, user profiles, and access privileges.  Combined, Mirapoint appliances deliver a secure messaging infrastructure to enterprises worldwide. 

About Mirapoint
Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.  For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.

Press Contact:
Arlene Lim
Loughlin/Michaels Group for Mirapoint
(408) 910-3112
arlene@lmgpr.com

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Built From the Ground Up, BakBone Data Protection Solutions Deliver Tight Integration, and Provide Customers with the Highest Levels of Simplicity and Flexibility

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2007--BakBone Software(R) (Pink Sheets:BKBO), the leading provider of heterogeneous integrated data protection solutions, today announced version 8.0 of NetVault(R): Backup, the company's award-winning, flagship data protection solution. The newest release of NetVault: Backup introduces integrated, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) capabilities and also expands NetVault: Backup's feature set. This marks a critical advancement in BakBone's Integrated Data Protection (IDP) strategy, BakBone's approach for reducing complexity in the data center.

NetVault: TrueCDP(TM), BakBone's new CDP offering, helps customers meet aggressive recovery point objectives for their most valuable and time-sensitive data on Linux and Windows file servers. As opposed to scheduled backups, which provide only one recovery point every 24 hours, BakBone's CDP capabilities provide recovery points within seconds. Developed as an integral feature of NetVault: Backup 8.0, NetVault: TrueCDP uses the same back-end hardware, providing a centralized repository of data that eliminates the complexity introduced by stand-alone CDP systems. Unlike many current CDP solutions that offer only near-CDP, NetVault: TrueCDP does more than just take occasional snapshots of data -- it provides up-to-the-second, real-time data capture for very granular any-point-in-time (APIT) recoveries. Customers can also define fixed-point-in-time (FPIT) recoveries (snapshots) for longer-term recovery points with finer granularity than those offered by traditional scheduled backup systems.

BakBone customer Yahoo! leverages NetVault: Backup for scalable data protection. "As a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide, it is critical that we support our business with technologies that can easily grow over time and provide the flexibility to allow us to run our storage management solutions on different platforms," said Marcellus Tabor, manager of data protection at Yahoo!.

NetVault: Backup 8.0

NetVault: Backup offers broad cross-platform support for Linux, Windows and Solaris environments and has won multiple awards for its ease of use, reliability and extensive features. Version 8.0 of NetVault: Backup adds real-time, true-CDP capabilities; enhances operational efficiency; reduces system downtime; improves data availability and increases security to support the business growth of enterprise environments.

Key product highlights for NetVault: Backup 8.0 include

• NetVault: TrueCDP - Continuous Data Protection for faster, more granular data recoveries. Integrated, true-CDP technology gives administrators the flexibility to meet their recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) across multiple platforms. NetVault: TrueCDP maintains the same look and feel as the BakBone family of products and works transparently with NetVault: Backup to protect customers' most valuable and time-sensitive data.
• Increased storage management efficiency. NetVault: Backup 8.0 integrated Shared Virtual Tape Library (SVTL) can be dynamically increased on the fly for easier storage growth. Version 8.0 adds restartable backups and support for additional cluster managers -- Sun Cluster, Fujitsu Primecluster and Veritas Cluster Manager.
• Enhanced central management capabilities to more effectively meet business goals. NetVault: Backup 8.0 manages clients and servers across firewalls, extends administrative control and adds support for NetApp's ShadowTape.
• Improved security and regulatory compliance. Enables password change enforcement to improve security and compliance and improves disk to disk to tape by encrypting copies.

The University of California, San Diego, Moores Cancer Center, the country's leading cancer research center, relies on BakBone to protect clinical trials data across Windows servers. "We originally chose BakBone for its cross-platform support, easy installation process and transparency in our data center," said Bryan Pettengill, computer resource specialist, University of California, San Diego, Moores Cancer Center. "BakBone customer service is top notch and each time I've called I have been treated very professionally. NetVault: Backup 8.0 is going to be very popular when I change from tape backup to SVTL."

ADP, one of the world's largest providers of business outsourcing solutions, relies on BakBone to protect their business data across Linux and Windows servers. "BakBone continues to deliver on its promise of integration and ease of use with NetVault: Backup 8.0," said Edward Bradley, associate LAN support specialist, ADP National Account Services. "We are especially pleased with the restartable backup option and can see a potential fit for NetVault: TrueCDP to help us recover our most time-sensitive data. We eagerly look forward to utilizing these features in the upcoming release."

IDC analysts Rhoda Phillips, research manager storage software, and Natalya Yezhkova, research manager storage systems, have been following the Continuous Data Protection segment since the technology first emerged, examining end user trends and adoption of CDP. "End users expect to see CDP functionality integrated into data protection offerings," said Yezhkova. "Such integration increases functionality, flexibility and usability of these solutions, and allows end users to avoid complexity associated with managing multiple data protection products."

"Customers want the fewest layers of technology possible and the minimal number of touches by applications on their data," said Phillips. "BakBone's addition of NetVault: TrueCDP to its Integrated Data Protection (IDP) strategy offers the type of solution required by those mid-sized companies who are looking for a heterogeneous data protection solution."

"BakBone understands that customers want to spend the minimal amount of time possible managing backups and recoveries, and we are providing key technologies that are both simple and powerful, eliminating the backup challenges IT administrators typically encounter," said Jeff Drescher, vice president of marketing, BakBone. "We also believe that customers should be able to use the operating system or systems that best suit their business needs. Increasingly, organizations are embracing Linux for ease of use, scalability and flexibility, and BakBone continues to dominate the Linux backup space. Combining our strong Linux heritage with impressive multi-platform support, BakBone is uniquely positioned to help customers meet new and evolving demands for their data protection needs."

BakBone Partners Support NetVault: Backup 8.0

Data Domain

"BakBone has proven to be a strong industry leader in offering customers flexible and scalable data protection solutions," said Beth White, vice president of marketing, Data Domain. "The combination of BakBone NetVault: Backup with Data Domain's Deduplication Storage systems provides data center and enterprise users ease of use and the ability to simplify storage management. BakBone's new NetVault: Backup 8.0 further reduces complexity by offering more flexibility and integration as well as improved cost savings. We look forward to a continued successful partnership with BakBone."

Isilon

"As the leader in clustered storage, Isilon recognizes the unique flexibility and scalability of BakBone's NetVault: Backup software, which make it an ideal solution for our unique, modular, and pay-as-you-grow Isilon IQ clustered storage systems," said Ashish Bhargava, director of business development, Isilon Systems. "Today, enterprises are experiencing an explosion of data growth, and it is essential that they have both a reliable and simple solution for storing and protecting that business-critical data. BakBone's NetVault: Backup parallels Isilon IQ's own scalability and reliability benefits and offers end-users a proven solution with enhanced data protection and enterprise-class functionality to meet the demands of any size environment."

LSI

"As a worldwide storage leader, LSI recognizes and appreciates the innovative technology BakBone delivers with their NetVault: Backup data protection solution," said Julie Ryan, director of alliances, LSI Corporation. "NetVault: TrueCDP is an exciting offering and the combination of BakBone's NetVault: Backup software with LSI's storage systems provides end users with an ideal storage solution to meet their demanding performance and reliability requirements for multi-platform environments."

Mirapoint

"Email is a mission critical part of conducting business today - even the slightest disruption in service can have significant financial impact on a business, making backup and recovery software absolutely essential for safeguarding critical information," said Larry Rosof, vice president of sales, Mirapoint, Inc. "With this in mind, Mirapoint and BakBone have worked actively together to offer our mutual enterprise customers a seamlessly integrated solution via NetVault Backup's NDMP, which reduces the complexity of managing e-mail backup and ensures the availability of critical data. BakBone's launch of NetVault: Backup 8.0 will provide our growing common customer base with even greater reliability and higher performance."

MySQL

"As corporate IT users increasingly employ MySQL for business-critical applications, they are also seeking higher levels of data availability," said Nicolas Pujol, MySQL AB's senior director of worldwide Alliances & Channels. "With today's announcement of NetVault: Backup 8.0, we fully support BakBone's efforts to provide automated, reliable and simplified database backup and protection solutions for MySQL users and the overall Linux community."

NetApp

"Companies of all sizes are grappling with the challenge of protecting, backing up and recovering their mission-critical data," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions Marketing, NetApp. "NetApp and BakBone dramatically reduce the complexity and expense of protecting data for companies of all sizes, from large enterprise to small and medium business, by simplifying the process and reducing the storage needed through NetApp A-SIS Deduplication, proven to deliver 20:1 reduction of data. Together, NetApp and BakBone are paving the way toward next-generation data protection."

Oracle

"As the industry's leading database on Linux, it is critical that our customers have simple and flexible data protection for their Linux environments," said Monica Kumar, senior director, Linux and Open Source Product Marketing, Oracle. "We value BakBone's commitment to deliver solutions that are certified with Oracle(R) Enterprise Linux and are pleased with their support of the Oracle Unbreakable Linux program. Oracle and BakBone share the common goal of bringing high quality, integrated solutions to help ensure enterprise success with the Linux operating system."

Sun Microsystems

"Sun has a rich history of working with partners like BakBone to provide enterprise-class storage management technologies to over 50% of the Fortune 1000 customer base. The newest features delivered with NetVault: Backup 8.0, in particular NetVault TrueCDP, will provide greater levels of scalability and flexibility and enable customers to both more easily protect their existing Sun storage investments and further simplify data protection," said David Kenyon, vice-president of Marketing, Storage Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Teradata Corporation

"We've been reselling BakBone's NetVault: Backup successfully since their company's inception and our mutual customers are thrilled not only with how easy their data protection solution is to implement, but also how easy it is to use," said Ron Yellin, product management director, Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation. "Our customers are some of the most successful global companies and depend on their data warehouse to run their businesses - it must be available and responsive to their business needs. The new features in NetVault: Backup 8.0 add several key capabilities that will help our customers achieve even higher levels of availability, ensuring that no data is ever lost. We are looking forward to offering NetVault: Backup 8.0 as an extension to our long-standing relationship."

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 Integrated Data Protection vision at www.bakbone.com or email info@bakbone.com.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors, which, if they do not materialize or prove correct, could cause BakBone's results to differ materially from historical results, or those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties may include, but are not limited to: competition in our target markets; potential capital needs; management of future growth and expansion; the development, implementation and execution of the Company's Integrated Data Protection (IDP) strategic vision; risk of third-party claims of infringement; protection of proprietary information; customer acceptance of the Company's existing and newly introduced products and fee structures; and the success of BakBone's brand development efforts. Also, risks associated with strategic alliances; reliance on distribution channels; product concentration; need to develop new and enhanced products; potential product defects; our ability to hire and retain qualified employees and key management personnel; and risks associated with changes in domestic and international market conditions and the entry into and development of international markets for the Company's products. Our forward-looking statements should be considered in the context of these and other risk factors disclosed in our most recent report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which may be found at www.sec.gov, as well as those risk factors disclosed in our current report filed with the Canadian Securities Administrators, which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. All future written and oral forward-looking statements made by us or on our behalf are also subject to these factors. BakBone assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances arising after the date on which it was made, other than as required under applicable securities laws.

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