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Now Serving more than 400 enterprise customers worldwide

Bellevue, WA. - Dec 20 2006 - Bocada, Inc., Bocada, Inc., the leading provider of data protection management software, today announced that it has doubled the number of enterprise customers utilizing the Bocada Enterprise solution to more than 400 worldwide over the past twelve months. The company has achieved major installed base gains through formal partnerships with the leading managed service providers and direct acquisition of customers. The momentum reflects increasing overall demand for the Bocada data protection management (DPM) solution to assess and troubleshoot, support best practice policy implementation, enable services delivery management ...

 Leading Data Protection Management Company to Demo Enhancements to Bocada Enterprise 4 at the IDC-Kahn Consulting Data Protection and Archiving Forum.

Bellevue, WA, December 12, 2006 - Bocada, Inc., the leading provider of data protection management software, today announced it will demonstrate the latest enhancements to Bocada Enterprise 4 at the IDC-Kahn Consulting Data Protection and Archiving Forum, December 5, 2006 at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City.

Bocada enables organizations to implement effective data protection policies, enforce service level agreements, pass regulatory audits and control overall risk.  Leading managed service providers and more than 300 enterprise customers have ...

 Bocada Enterprise software helps Synopsys ensure compliance and data integrity while reducing cost of data protection.

Bellevue, WA, October 23, 2006 - Bocada, Inc., the recognized leader in data protection management software, today announced that Synopsys, a world leader in semiconductor design software, has implemented the Bocada Enterprise platform to manage mission-critical data backup operations and achieve policy mandates for compliance.

To manage terabytes of data each day for business units across the corporation, the data protection services team at Synopsys saves time and reduces cost by leveraging Bocada software to automate delivery of information critical to data protection management. By ...

Customers Can Use Leading Data Protection Management Product to Establish Key Corporate Information Retention Practices

Bellevue, Wash. — September 27, 2006 — Bocada, Inc., the recognized leader in data protection management software, today announced that it is extending its Data Protection Management solution, Bocada Enterprise 4, to help customers meet the complex requirements now facing U.S. organizations due to new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). The new rules which mandate how email and other electronic data must be produced for litigation take full effect nationwide on December 1. In a separate announcement released today, Bocada introduced enhanced ...

Improvements Help IT Staff Validate Compliance in Data Protection Through Secure Information Delivery

Bellevue, WA, September 27, 2006 — Bocada, Inc., the leading provider of data protection management software, today announced enhancements to Bocada Enterprise 4 that make it easier for multiple users across large scale organizations to gain critical insight into performance against data management and compliance policies. Enhancements using standards-based Java technology enable the Bocada Enterprise Report Viewer to provide straightforward, secure access to reports via the web, making role-based information delivery to unique users across the corporation a reality. New self-monitoring capabilities ensure customers can prove continuous adherence ...

Bellevue, WA., September 20, 2006 — Bocada, Inc., the recognized leader in data protection management software, today announced the appointment of Nancy Hurley as vice president of marketing and business development.  Hurley brings more than 20 years of industry experience to Bocada, including several years as a respected storage analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) and tenure as senior director of Sun Microsystems storage software marketing.

As an industry veteran with experience in operations and industry analysis, Nancy will contribute unique insight into the business and technology needs of our customers and partners; said Drake Pruitt, president and CEO of ...

Independent survey reveals frustration with mismatched solutions, hidden costs, uninformed sales efforts

Bellevue, WA. - September 11 2006 - Storage vendors consistently fail to demonstrate an understanding of their customers business issues, and push complex solutions with hidden costs routinely misaligned to stated business objectives, according to an independent study commissioned by Bocada, Inc., the recognized leader in data protection management software.

The blind survey, which polled nearly 200 IT decision makers at enterprises with more than 500 people, was designed to determine how well storage vendors understand and meet the overall business objectives and professional needs of storage managers and buyers ...

Bellevue, WA. - July 17 2006 - Bocada, Inc., the recognized leader in data protection management software, today announced the promotion of Drake Pruitt to the position of president and chief executive officer. Pruitt has been with Bocada for nearly five years in positions of increasing responsibility, most recently serving as a Bocada executive vice president. Mark Silverman, who has served as CEO and a board director for the past six years, will now serve as chairman of the company's board.

"It gives me great pleasure to announce Drake's promotion," Silverman said. "Drake has repeatedly distinguished himself as a customer-focused ...

Streamlined procurement, on demand pricing and expedited deployment ensure even greater net return for Bocada customers

Bellevue, WA. - June 26 2006 - Bocada, Inc., the widely recognized leader in data protection management software, today announced the launch of Bocada NOWTM, a revolutionary program that simplifies the acquisition and implementation of the company's award-winning Bocada Enterprise software. Bocada NOW is a unique marriage of a flexible, subscription pricing model, a streamlined customer engagement practice and a rapid deployment process uniquely enabled by the patented, agentless, multi-vendor architecture of Bocada Enterprise 4.

"Bocada always has been keenly focused on providing and maintaining ...

Dorothy Pults Brings Extensive Product Management Leadership

Bellevue, WA. - May 28 2006 - Bocada, Inc., the privately-held provider of software solutions for Data Protection Management, today announced the addition of Dorothy Pults as vice president of product management. Pults has held senior product management and technical roles with leading companies including EMC and Legato, where most recently she led the Redmond technology center supporting Microsoft.

With more than 25 years of experience in product development and management, Pults will have overall responsibility for product management efforts during a period of intense growth for the company.

"We have an aggressive product roadmap ...

Bocada Works with NetApp to Help Customers Achieve Service-Level, Policy, and Compliance Goals

Bellevue, WA. - April 24 2006 - Bocada, Inc., the recognized leader in data protection management software, today announced its official membership in the NetApp™ Partner Program. The program enables partners to rapidly deploy support for NetApp enterprise-ready storage and data protection solutions. As a member in the NetApp Partner Program, Bocada will provide managed services to end users with the award-winning Bocada Enterprise 4 platform, which will help customers better achieve their service-level, policy, and compliance goals with NetApp data protection solutions.

"One of the goals of the ...

Technology Partnerships with Hewlett-Packard, Network Appliance and BMC to Drive Even More Rapid Availability of Critical Decision Support Information for IT Professionals

STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD, SAN DIEGO, CA. - April 4 2006 - Bocada, Inc., the recognized leader in Data Protection Management software, today announced the establishment of key technology partnerships with Hewlett-Packard, Network Appliance, and BMC to further help IT professionals meet their services delivery commitments. Over the past five years, Bocada has assisted thousands of IT professionals at more than 200 of the world's leading organizations to meet the ever increasing demand for cost-effective data protection services. Through these ...

Bocada to Demonstrate its Award-winning Data Protection Management Software

Bellevue, WA - March 6 2006 - Bocada, Inc., the recognized leader in Data Protection Management software, today announced its participation at IBM PartnerWorld 2006 taking place March 12-15 at the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Resort and Conference Center. In addition to exhibiting at the event, Bocada will demonstrate Bocada Enterprise 4, the latest version of the company's award-winning data protection management software. Bocada will be located at booth #323 in the Software Solutions Village.

Built for the demands of the scaled, distributed enterprise, Bocada Enterprise 4 automates the collection, storage and ...

Data Protection Management Becomes a Priority for Enterprises and Services

Bellevue, WA - February 22, 2006 - Bocada, Inc., the privately-held provider of software solutions for what analysts have dubbed "data protection management," extended their leadership position as measured by financial, partner, product and industry-awareness goals. "2005 was a watershed year for Bocada both in terms of the development of the company and our market category," said Mark Silverman, Bocada CEO. "It is rewarding to have Bocada solutions recognized as mission critical by leading companies in nearly every major vertical market, by three of the top four global outsourced services providers and ...

Bocada to Lead Discussion on How to Help IBM Tivoli Customers Meet Data Protection Goals and Compliance Regulations

Bellevue, WA - January 12 2006 - Bocada, Inc., the leading provider of data protection management software to enterprises and strategic outsourcers, announced today that it will attend IBM Software University 2006 taking place in Las Vegas, January 15-20. At the show, Bocada will lead a "Birds of a Feather" session about how Bocada Enterprise 4 data protection management software helps Tivoli users meet their business goals for data protection, including recoverability, compliance, consolidation, resource utilization, and more. The Bocada "Birds of a Feather ...