Bocada Automates Key Data Protection Reporting and Compliance Processes Company delivers version 2.5 of award-winning BackupReport(R) software BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Bocada, Inc., the leading provider of scalable, enterprise data protection reporting, compliance and charge-back solutions, today announced the latest version of its award-winning BackupReport(R) software application. BackupReport version 2.5 was developed in direct response to the feedback of hundreds of professionals, managers and end-users using BackupReport across to automatically consolidate, organize and distribute information on more than 2,000,000 backup jobs per day from more than 400 locations worldwide. In addition to an enhanced user experience and greater control over fine reporting elements and information management, BackupReport version 2.5 now collects and consolidates critical data directly from leading tape library solutions. In a survey to be released later today, Bocada sent questionnaires to qualified IT professionals and learned that over 90% of them believe that tracking and reporting on backup activity is an absolute requirement. The survey also revealed that a majority of respondents have resorted to time-consuming and tedious manual data collection, scripts and spreadsheets as the only way to get the system performance data they need to manage their operations. Bocada's unique, agentless, multi-vendor approach enables customers to replace these time-intensive and error-prone tasks with a scalable, enterprise class application that typically pays for itself in less than one year. "The mission of Bocada is to provide customers with software that delivers concise, unbiased information that enables the efficient use of data protection systems, processes, and people," said Mark Silverman, CEO of Bocada. "We are all about improving data security while driving down costs." "Every enhancement in the latest version of our BackupReport solution is based on specific feedback from dozens of the world's largest telecom, finance, health care, consumer and technology companies, as well as hundreds of leading data protection experts," said Liam Scanlan, Bocada's Vice President of Product Development. "From our next generation user experience to the collection of data directly from large library environments, our end-users drive our development priorities." Other key additions to BackupReport 2.5 include: -- Enhanced Utilization Reporting -- Customers can review continuous loading by job group, drive and other categories to accelerate identification and optimization of expensive, underutilized assets saving both time and money. -- New Report Groups -- Customers can group information by master server, media server, zone, owner, job group and more to closely mirror existing organizational structures and processes. The benefit is efficient, automated distribution of the specific information to particular groups or individuals when needed increasing employee efficiency and ensuring focus on agreed upon priorities. -- Error Sensitivity -- Customers can now assign sensitivities to particular error categories as well as create and prioritize their own error categories promoting more refined SLA compliance and charge-back, as well as more efficient task prioritization. About Bocada Bocada, Inc., the Storage Intelligence Company, was founded in 1999 to help organizations optimize the reliability and efficiency of their data protection operations. The Company's flagship product, BackupReport, relies on a unique agentless, multi-vendor architecture to collect, consolidate, analyze, and report on data protection activity across the enterprise, regardless of the storage architecture, backup software, hardware platforms or operating systems in use. Bocada has installed BackupReport in businesses around the world, including such industry leaders as Agilent, Sprint, and Unilever. For more information, visit Bocada on the Web at http://www.bocada.com/ or call (425) 818-4400. Media Contacts: Bocada, Inc. For Bocada: Drake Pruitt Sarah Johansen 425-818-4409 650-823-5065 DATASOURCE: Bocada, Inc. CONTACT: Drake Pruitt of Bocada, Inc., +1-425-818-4409, or ; Sarah Johansen for Bocada, +1-650-823-5065, or

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