DATAFORT SECURES MAJOR IT BUSINESS AWARD
Winners of the Information Management Awards – Information Storage Product Award 2002

DataFort, provider of effortless off-site data back up, are delighted to be announced as the winner of the Information Storage Product Award at the 2002 Information Management Awards. This yearly event recognises products and services that have delivered significant and definable business benefits to the user as well as innovation and originality. The judging panel featured members of the press, the British Computer Society and key analysts such as Ovum and Gartner.

The DataFort Wide Area Back-Up product was selected as the most exciting and innovative new information storage product, out of a short list of eleven products. DataFort Wide Area Back-Up provides dependable secure off-site data storage that works onsite, within the security of the users’ firewall, shepherding company data from the network and compressing and encrypting it into a more manageable format. Thereby ensuring that the most vulnerable sector of business (SME’s) the continuity to offer their products and services even when disaster strikes.

Business Development Director of DataFort Marcie Terman, comments "Our product has an incredibly important role to play in keeping business’s in business, even in the most adverse circumstances. To be given such a prestigious award by such eminent members of the IT industry is testament to the efforts of the whole team."

About DataFort
DataFort provides dependable secure off-site computer information storage with a focus on functionality and convenience for the end user. DataFort is more than just an off-site service, its proprietary software works onsite, within the security of the client’s firewall, to shepherd company data via the Internet to a secure data complex. The fully automated service gives peace of mind to any company with up to 1 Terabyte (1000 GB) of data. DataFort provides enterprise level disaster recovery services to the both micro and SMB market. The software uses 256-bit encryption, the same standard approved for internal use by the US Federal government to encode data on the customer premises before sending it over Internet connections to a high security data complex. The service includes a remote administration system that monitors systems that may impact on backup events. This system can be accessed by customers or their advisors through a secure web site. It also includes account monitoring from the DataFort N.O.C.DataFort provides a scalable service with customers ranging from micro businesses through to listed corporate entities.

Further information on DataFort – including interviews, reviews, users stories and site visits – is available from:

Ian Peel
DataFort press office
MCC International Ltd
Tel: 1-800 944 0584
Fax: 1-646 619-4206
Email: datafort@mccint.com