SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. & FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May
4, 2006--Company Launches Practical Disaster Recovery Preparation Guidelines, Training Programs and Dedicated Microsite to Aid Businesses and Ensure Continuous Availability of Applications and Data in the Event of a Disaster in 2006

For Ron Sattan, IT Manager at award-winning, full service engineering company, Hatch Mott McDonald, last year's Hurricane Katrina was a good test of its new disaster recovery plan.

"If the old plan had been in place, we definitely wouldn't have been as comfortable having to close our Mobile office, and we would not have recovered so quickly," said Sattan.

While the storm displaced workers and separated them from the knowledge and information they needed to do their jobs, having a recently updated disaster recovery plan, averted what became catastrophic to many small and mid-size enterprises when the winds, rains and oceans buffeted the coastlines and areas in the path of the hurricane as it traveled across and into Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.

"We were extremely fortunate to have so many customers that were well prepared in light of last year's season," said Bob Roudebush, Director of Solutions Engineering, Double-Take Software. "For us and our community, we were looking for a way to share the positive outcomes, discuss best practices and let our customers tell their stories, so that many could learn from their experiences."

Building on those lessons learned from last year's hurricane season, Double-Take(R) Software kicked off a series of educational forums designed to help prepare for the upcoming hurricane season and mitigate financial losses of their customers by ensuring a reliable disaster recovery plan is in place prior to the start of the season.

The team of disaster recovery experts at Double-Take(R) Software is on-call to provide educational training, support and services to the high risk hurricane zones. This full-featured program includes:

-- Regional Seminars

-- Regional Webinars

-- A Dedicated Disaster Recovery Hurricane Microsite that features:

-- On-Demand Disaster Recovery Webinars

-- End User Audio Interviews

-- Virtual Town Hall Meetings

-- First-hand Best Practice Customer Case Studies

-- Disaster Recovery Expert Blogs

-- Disaster Recovery Assessment Worksheets, Checklists, Tips and Techniques; and

-- Access to Disaster Recovery Experts at Double-Take Software and their extended network of partners and solution providers.

Double-Take Software and a disaster recovery team of experts will share insight, provide expert opinions and offer counsel on what to do to better prepare your business for the 2006 hurricane season.

May offers a series of seminars focused on "Being Disaster Prepared and Ensuring Business Continuity" with data protection seminars. The first seminar, hosted today at the Microsoft(R) Latin American Headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, scheduled from 10:00 am to 1:30 pm, will discuss why it's important to protect business critical applications; what "protection" means; what options are available for database and email protection; how to evaluate and compare costs and advantages of different disaster recovery solutions; and how to build on replication and data protection to do more than just disaster recovery.

Upcoming seminars will be hosted in New Orleans on May 17th and May 25th by Double-Take Software's premiere DR partners, Sunbelt Software and MTM Technologies. The content from the seminar will be available on the Double-Take Software Hurricane Microsite which officially launched today. For more information on what your company can do to better prepare for this year's hurricane season, as well as a listing of upcoming events, please visit www.doubletake.com/hurricane.

About Double-Take(R) Software

NSI Software, Inc. (NSI(R)) doing business as Double-Take(R) Software provides the world's most relied upon solution for accessible and affordable data protection for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) applications. The Double-Take product is the standard in data replication, enabling customers to protect business-critical data that resides throughout their enterprise. With its partner programs and professional services, Double-Take delivers unparalleled data protection, centralized back-up, high availability, and recoverability. It's the solution of choice for thousands of customers, from SMEs to the Fortune 500 in the banking, finance, legal services, retail, manufacturing, government, education and healthcare markets. Double-Take is an integral part of their disaster recovery, business continuity and overall storage strategies. Double-Take Software is privately held and headquartered in Southborough, MA. For more information, please visit www.doubletake.com.

About Sunbelt Software

Headquartered in Tampa Bay (Clearwater), Fla., Sunbelt Software was founded in 1994 and offers product solutions to protect and secure systems from costly inefficiencies such as spam and spyware. Sunbelt Software is part of the Sunbelt International Group, which includes Sunbelt Software and Sunbelt System Software in Europe. The Sunbelt System Software group has offices in the UK, France, Belgium, Sweden and Germany. For more information about Sunbelt Software, please visit the company's website at: www.sunbelt-software.com.

About MTM Technologies, Inc.

MTM Technologies, Inc. is a leading national provider of innovative IT solutions and services to Global 2000 and mid-size companies. Partnered with industry-leading technology providers such as Cisco, Citrix, Microsoft, HP, Sun Microsystems, Double-Take(R) Software, EMC and Avaya, MTM Technologies' practice areas include access infrastructure, IP telephony, enterprise storage, security and network and systems infrastructure. Service areas include managed services, consulting, professional IT staffing and implementation. For more information, visit www.mtm.com.

Double-Take(R), GeoCluster(R)and NSI(R) are registered trademarks of NSI Software, Inc. Balance(TM), Double-Take for Virtual Systems(TM), and Double-Take for Virtual Servers(TM) are trademarks of NSI Software, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, and the Windows logo are trademarks, or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are properties of their respective companies.

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