Asigra Wins Gold for Data Protection Leadership in Coveted TechTarget

Product of the Year Awards

Company Wins in Hardware and Software Categories for Anti-Ransomware and GDPR Compliance
Innovations.

Toronto, Canada, February 13, 2019 --(PR.com)-- Asigra Inc., a leading cloud backup, recovery and
restore software provider since 1986 today announced that the company has been named the Backup and
DR Software and Services Category Gold Winner and the Backup and DR Hardware Category Gold
Winner in the Storage Magazine / SearchStorage.com Product of the Year competition. Asigra attributes
its win to the exceptional capabilities in both award-winning products, including advanced
anti-ransomware and GDPR compliance features.

“Asigra Cloud Backup Evolved 14 converges enterprise data protection and cybersecurity. It contains
embedded malware engines in the backup and recovery stream to prevent ransomware from getting into
backups. Those engines identify a virus, quarantine it and notify customers,” said TechTarget editors.
“Asigra Cloud Backup also enables compliance with several articles of the recently enacted GDPR,
including a citizen's right to erasure. Other features include data protection for Office 365 Groups, a new
management console with RESTful APIs, instant recovery and container-based deployment and
protection.”

The top products considered in the backup and disaster recovery (DR) software and services category
included backup and recovery software, cloud backup and recovery services, DR, snapshot and
replication software, electronic vaulting and archiving software. Products compared in the hardware
category include stand-alone disk and tape systems, backup software integrated with hardware appliances
and gateway appliances for cloud backup and replication. Asigra received the top ranking in both
categories for the company's software and integrated TrueNAS backup appliance.

According to the publication, "The judges scored Asigra Cloud Backup Evolved V14 far higher than any
other product in the category, praising its innovation and functionality." One judge wrote, "This is the
best data protection I have seen anywhere in preventing ransomware from infecting backups or erasing
them. Very complete comprehensive data protection solution at a very low cost." Another judge
complimented Asigra's "top-level" ransomware defense and unique pricing that is based on usage, not
protection.

In partnership with iXsystems, the Asigra TrueNAS Backup Appliance took home the gold as the Product
of the Year in the backup/DR hardware category. Asigra's integrated backup appliance combines Cloud
Backup Evolved V14 and iXsystems' TrueNAS hardware featuring the OpenZFS file system.

“The Asigra TrueNAS Backup Appliance impressed the judges in several areas,” noted the publication.
“Affordability was a factor, as the lowest-capacity model of Asigra TrueNAS costs $10,000 and comes
with 60 TB of storage. Price scales with capacity, with the highest-end configuration holding up to 10
petabytes.” One judge summed up the complete package as having "great functionality (and) good

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pricing." Other judges focused on functionality, specifically calling out the solution as exceptional for
how it protects against ransomware by defending backup data. "This product seems to provide the most
thought-through approach to ransomware attacks that include backup and archive attacks," another judge
said.

Asigra Cloud Backup Evolved is version 14 of the company's software, converging data protection and IT
security for effective malware detection for safe, secure and reliable backup and data recovery. The
enhanced platform includes the industry's first zero-day Attack-Loop preventative technology using
bi-directional malware detection, zero-day exploit protection, variable repository naming, and two-factor
authentication (2FA) for a full defensive suite against advanced ransomware and other cyber-attacks on
backup data.

“Data recovery is a mission critical capability that we have focused on since the beginning. But as many
other backup vendors can attest to, the ability to recover ransomware-free data can be put at risk by new
attacks on the backup set by criminal coders,” said David Farajun, CEO, Asigra. “We appreciate
TechTarget's recognition of both our software and hardware solutions for ensuring compliant,
ransomware-free data protection and recovery when required by our customers.”

To view both awards, please visit:

1. Asigra Cloud Backup Evolved V14 Wins Backup/DR Software Product of the Year:
https://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/feature/Asigra-Cloud-Backup-Evolved-14

2. Asigra TrueNAS Backup Appliance Named Backup/DR Hardware Product of the Year:
https://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/feature/Asigra-TrueNAS-Backup-Appliance

To learn more about Asigra, visit: www.asigra.com

Follow Asigra on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/asigra

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Additional Resources:
- Learn more about the TrueNAS Backup Appliance at
https://www.ixsystems.com/asigra-truenas-solution/
- Hear what service providers have to say about working with Asigra:
https://www.asigra.com/partnership.
- Follow Asigra on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/asigra
- View the enhanced features of the Asigra Hybrid Cloud Partner Program at:
https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/300101651/2018-partner-program-guide-5-star-cloud-vendors-pa
rt-1.htm/pgno/0/7

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About Asigra
Trusted since 1986, Asigra provides organizations around the world the ability to quickly recover their
data from anywhere through a global network of IT service providers who deliver Cloud Backup Evolved
as either public, private and/or hybrid solutions. As the industry's most comprehensive data protection
platform for servers, virtual machines, endpoint devices, databases and applications, SaaS and IaaS based
applications, Asigra lowers the total cost of ownership, reduces recovery time objectives, and eliminates
silos of backup data by providing a single consolidated repository with 100% recovery assurance. The
company has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor and included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for
Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software since 2010. More information on Asigra can be found at
www.asigra.com.

Asigra and the Asigra logo are trademarks of Asigra Inc.

Contact Asigra
Call 877-736-9901 or email info@asigra.com

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Contact Information:
Asigra
Umair Sattar
416-736-8111
Contact via Email
www.asigra.com

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