WOODCLIFF LAKE, New Jersey, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Joint Solution for Data Protection in Consolidated Virtual Environment 
Accelerates Time-to-Value for Customers

Syncsort, a global leader in data protection software, today announced it
has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. The VMware
TAP program helps technology vendors integrate their products with VMware
virtualization software and deliver timely, joint solutions to mutual
customers. Through this alliance, Syncsort and VMware customers can achieve
enhanced flexibility and performance of backup and recovery, reduced hardware
requirements and ease-of-use for virtual environments. The result is a rapid
return on investment for customers deploying server virtualization.

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Syncsort's Backup Express (BEX) has been uniquely architected to
integrate seamlessly with VMware, reducing network traffic, storage
requirements and backup windows by more than 90 percent. All this is
accomplished with little or no impact on the performance of applications. BEX
Instant Virtualization(TM) utilizes point-in-time server snapshots to provide
immediate access to data, applications and operating system, permitting
business to continue nearly uninterrupted. The solution makes it simple and
cost-effective to protect critical applications and vital data in VMware
environments.

"Backup Express easily integrates with our existing VMware
Infrastructure," said Timothy J. Patterson, Systems Administrator at Saginaw
Valley State University. "Using Backup Express Zero-Impact Virtual Machine
Protection, VMware Infrastructure backups are fast, application-consistent
and do not impact our virtual infrastructure. In addition, BEX Instant
Virtualization allows us to quickly move data and applications between
virtual machines and protects us against business interruptions."

Virtualization is bringing significant benefits to companies seeking to
contain storage and server costs and support IT infrastructure consolidation
while reducing environmental impact. BEX maximizes the benefits of
virtualization by bringing high performance data protection and recovery to
critical applications running on VMware ESX hosts.

"Our customers can not only virtualize their smaller applications and
test development servers but also move critical applications into production
on VMware Infrastructure while still maintaining application performance and
meeting the same demanding RPOs and RTOs production apps require," according
to Harvey Tessler, Sr. VP of Marketing and Product Management at Syncsort.
"Deploying BEX within a VMware environment accelerates companies' return on
investment in virtualization by efficiently managing infrastructure
consolidation for all potential applications, thus speeding time-to-value."

Customers are using the capabilities of BEX to fully leverage their
VMware investments. "BEX's unique source-side data reduction makes our
backups extremely fast while also significantly reducing the network and
hardware footprint, and there is no degradation of application performance,"
said Ralph Casero, Unix System Administrator for insurance services company
Avmed. "It is simple to back up from physical to virtual, virtual to
physical, or virtual to virtual. And our disaster recovery testing was a
snap."

About the Alliance

"We are excited to welcome Syncsort as the newest member of the VMware
TAP program," said Bernie Mills, Senior Director, Alliance Programs, VMware.
"The VMware TAP program offers companies like Syncsort the tools and
resources they need to develop high-value solutions that meet the needs of
our mutual customers."

With more than 900 members worldwide, the VMware TAP program works with
best-of-breed technology partners to provide them a comprehensive set of
VMware technical and marketing services, support, tools and expertise to
deliver enhanced value to joint customers.

About Syncsort Incorporated

Syncsort Incorporated is a leading developer of high-performance data
management, data warehousing and data protection/recovery software. For over
40 years, Syncsort has built a reputation for superior product quality,
high-performance software which also optimizes hardware resources,
outstanding technical support and ease of use that increases productivity.
Most of the Fortune 500 companies are Syncsort customers, and with over
11,000 deployments, Syncsort's products are used in more than 50 countries to
back up and protect data in distributed environments, speed data warehouse
processing, and improve performance of data-intensive applications and
processes. For more information call +1-201-930-9700 (+1-877-FAST-951 in the 
US and Canada) or visit www.syncsort.com.

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