SEAGATE SOFTWARE TO PROVIDE BACKUP AND EMERGENCY RECOVERY UTILITY FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS 98 UTILITY BASED ON CORE TECHNOLOGIES OF AWARD-WINNING SEAGATE BACKUP EXEC HEATHROW, Fla., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- Seagate Software, a leading provider of network and storage management solutions, today announced its next-generation backup and disaster recovery utilities are being integrated with the upcoming Microsoft Windows 98 operating system. Coinciding with the company's announcement to develop the backup utilities for Microsoft Windows NT 5.0, these successive efforts demonstrate Seagate Software's position as a delivering reliable and comprehensive solutions that offer effective data protection for Windows-based systems. The Microsoft Windows 98 backup utility, which features the technology behind Seagate Software's award-winning Seagate Backup Exec for Windows 95, includes several key technology upgrades. Most significantly, the utility's new Emergency Recovery allows users to resume operations quickly and easily following workstation failure. With the Emergency Recovery discs, users can automaticaaly rebuild the operating system and restore the latest full backup directly from their tape device in the event of failure. Traditionally, users have been forced to manually reinstall the operating system before the backup software could function and enable users to resotre data-a-time-consuming and tedious process. "Seagate Software's backup utility will provide excellent data protection to Windows customers," said Jim Allchin, vice president Personal and Business Systems Division at Microsoft. "We expect Seagate Software's unique Emergency Recovery feature will help reduce the total cost of owning and deploying Windows-based systems by minimizing downtime." "We are committed to supporting Microsoft through superior storage utilities in all of their next-generation Windows products," said Ken Horner, director of storage solutions, Seagate Software, Network and Storage Management Group. "This commitment results in a direct benefit to our customers by ensuring the solutions are designed to work with the future releases from Microsoft. The new utility for Windows 98 puts sophisticated and intuitive backup and data restore capabilities in the hands of small office/home office, consumer and corporate users, ensuring complete information availability for workstation users." In addition to Emergency Recovery other new backup features for Windows 98 include: * Enhanced Device Support - provides backup flexibility and compatibility with popular tape, and removable storage devices, supporting virtually all SCSI and ATAPI/IDE tape interfaces. * File Specification - allows the user to select the backup and restore location whether to a floppy drive, hard disc, removable media device, network drive, or any other mapped device including Jaz, Zip, LS120, optical, Syquest and the multi-function PowerDrive. * Complete Windows 98 Protection - protects long filenames and the Windows 98 Registry. * Wizard Technology - walks users through the process of creating the Emergency Recovery discs and the steps to recover from a disaster. * Plug and Play - simplifies installation and configuration. Seagate Software provided the first backup utility bundled with Microsoft's 1991 original release of Windows NT. Since then, Seagate Software has been selected as developer of several backup and storage management utilities for Microsoft desktop and network products, including the backup utility for the forthcoming Windows NT 5.0. In addition, Microsoft's Information Technology Group (ITG) uses Seagate Software products to protect its 2,300 Windows NT servers worldwide. For more information about Seagate Software, network and storage management products, contact the Orlando area office at: 400 International Parkway, Heathrow, FL 32746; 800-327-2232; 407-531-7500; FAX 407-531-7730. Seagate Software, a subsidiary of Seagate Technology, Inc. (NYSE: SEG), develops tools and applications in the areas of Business Intelligence and infrastructure management, including network, systems and storage management. Its industry leading software solutions are developed as integral components of a total data management product strategy supporting all major operating environments. Seagate Software has established strategic relationships with Microsoft, Novell, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Informix, Peoplesoft and other industry leaders. It markets its products worldwide, through distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators, retailers and OEMs. Seagate Software's homepage address on the World Wide Web is http://www.seagatesoftware.com. NOTE: Seagate Technology, Seagate and Seagate Software are trademarks of Seagate Technology, Inc. Seagate Backup Exec for Windows 95 and Seagate Backup Exec for NT are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology, Inc., or one of its subsidiries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. SOURCE Seagate Software