UltraBac Software Improves Disaster Recovery in a Virtual Instance
UltraBac Software Releases UBDR Gold for Microsoft Virtual Server

BELLEVUE, WA - October 10, 2005 - UltraBac Software (www.ultrabac.com) today announced a Q4 target date to release an updated version of UBDR Gold that will seamlessly integrate the company's award-winning image-based disaster recovery software with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 for physical-to-virtual (P2V) disaster recovery.

UltraBac Disaster Recovery (UBDR) Gold uses image-based backup and disaster recovery technology to provide lightning fast recovery for users of all versions of the Windows platform. UBDR Gold uses UltraBac's ability to perform image backups, along with a WinPE-based universal boot CD environment, to restore one or more disk partitions even when no operating system is available. In addition, UBDR Gold provides enterprise features such as support for FTP, Tivoli Storage Manager, tape library control, and 100 percent scripted restores for unassisted recoveries.

With this release, UBDR Gold will be able to quickly and easily restore the image of a failed server to a Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 environment. P2V capability provides organizations that experience a catastrophic hardware failure the ability to recover a machine's image, and emulate the restored hardware configuration virtually. Organizations that couple UBDR Gold's backup capability with its integrated P2V restore functionality are automatically protected from natural or man made disasters that incapacitate or destroy a computer facility. Furthermore, UBDR Gold and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 will work together to essentially provide dissimilar hardware restore and/or physical server consolidation in a cost effective and integrated package.

To restore a physical server to a Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2, an administrator only needs to create a target virtual machine for the server to be restored. After creating a new virtual environment, the administrator can then use UBDR Gold to boot into the recovery wizard. Quick and easy restores can be performed from tape, disk, SAN, NAS, UNC path, USB/FireWire devices, FTP devices, or TSM servers. Users can expect restore speeds of up to 3GB/minute with fast network connections, local disk, or high-speed tape. Recovering to a virtual environment is automatic and requires no special setup or other considerations.

Once a disaster recovery operation has been successfully performed and the restored machine is running within a virtual environment, administrators can then begin planning a physical migration to a new hardware configuration if, and when, required. V2P (virtual-to-physical) support is also planned for release in Q4.

In the first quarter of 2006, through its licensing of the Microsoft virtual hard disk (VHD) format, UltraBac Software will expand on this technology by allowing UBDR Gold to restore directly to the native VHD file format to a Microsoft 2005 Virtual Server R2. This feature eliminates the requirement to boot UBDR Gold completely, since the virtual disk files can be created entirely within the normal UltraBac environment. This can save a considerable amount of time for the system administrator.

With Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 support, UBDR Gold users may find that their requirement to maintain hardware spares for disaster recovery will be eliminated or greatly diminished.

"Innovation, reliability, and support have long been the cornerstones to our success. By listening to our customers we continue to add value to our products while delivering solutions that meet their needs," said Morgan Edwards, CEO and founder of UltraBac Software. "Integrating our P2V technology with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 will only continue to strengthen our position as an industry leader in backup and image-based disaster recovery."