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For Immediate Release
New Iomega REV™ Drive Wins Best of Show Award at CeBIT America
SAN DIEGO,
May 27, 2004 -
Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM), a global leader in data storage, today announced
that the new Iomega® REV™ 35GB/90GB* drive has been honored with a
prestigious “Best of CeBIT America” award at this year’s annual
tradeshow.
Iomega’s new REV drive, which offers the removeability
of tape with the speed and ease of use of a hard drive,
was awarded the top prize in the personal hardware
category at the CeBIT America technology trade show
at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York. The Best
of CeBIT America award is sponsored by eWeek Magazine
and PC Magazine.
“We’re honored to receive this award and pleased with the tremendous
level of attention that the Iomega REV drive has received in its first month
of availability,” said Susan Huberman, vice president, corporate and emerging
technology marketing, Iomega Corporation. “The Iomega REV drive is a great
backup storage solution for small and medium-sized business users and others
who need high capacity, fast, and easy-to-use removable storage.”
The Iomega REV drive transfers data up to eight times faster than tape, and the
REV disks are smaller than a deck of playing cards (10 x 77 x 75 mm) and can
be rewritten more than a million times (estimated). With a maximum sustained
transfer rate of 25MB/sec, and using drag and drop random access technology,
REV drive users can copy and restore individual files in seconds.
Included with the Iomega REV drive is Iomega Automatic Backup Pro software, which
provides frequent file-level backup to a REV drive. Once configured, the “no-touch” software
automatically backs up specified files (including multiple revisions); keeps
multiple backup sets on different destination drives; excludes user-selected
files by file type, and performs scheduled backups. Powerful professional-level
features include 2.6:1 compression and AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) file
encryption, along with support for Windows® server operating systems.
Symantec’s Norton Ghost for REV™ Drive software is also included
for full-system disaster recovery, letting users capture an exact image of the
computer’s main hard drive partition, including all data files, system
files, settings and installed software. If disaster strikes, the disk image can
be easily copied back to the replacement drive from the REV disk.
Leading backup software companies, including CommVault Systems, Computer Associates,
Dantz, Symantec, VERITAS, and Yosemite Technologies, have confirmed compatibility
between their products and the new Iomega® REV drive. These companies represent
the majority of the backup installations in small and medium-sized businesses
today.
Availability
The Iomega REV drive is now shipping in USB 2.0 external ($399.99 with one disk
included) and ATAPI internal ($379.99 with one disk included) configurations.
REV disks are available individually ($59.99) or in a four-pack ($199.95);
all prices are U.S. suggested retail. FireWire®, SCSI and SATA models are
also planned for introduction in the second half of this year. More information
on Iomega REV products is available at www.iomega.com.
About Iomega
Iomega Corporation provides
easy-to-use, high value storage solutions to help
people
protect, secure, capture and share their valuable digital
information. Iomega's award-winning storage products
include the new Iomega
REV™ 35GB Drive, popular Zip®
100MB, 250MB and 750MB Drives; high-performance
Iomega
HDD External Hard Drives in desktop
and portable configurations; Iomega
Mini USB Drives and Micro Mini™ USB Drives; Iomega
external CD-RW Drives; Iomega Super DVD Drives and
the QuikTouch™ Video
Burner; and the
Iomega
Floppy USB-Powered Drive. Iomega simplifies data
protection and sharing at home and in the workplace
with Iomega
Automatic Backup software, Iomega
Sync software, HotBurn®
CD-recording software, and Active
Disk technology. For networks, Iomega
NAS servers offer capacities of 160GB to 1TB.
For unlimited capacity and anytime, anywhere access,
Iomega offers iStorage™ secure online storage.
Iomega also offers businesses and consumers a comprehensive
data
recovery services solution for recovering lost
data due to hardware failure, file corruption or
media damage.
The Company can be reached at 1-888-4-IOMEGA (888-446-6342),
or on the Web at www.iomega.com.
*Compressed capacity assuming 2.6:1 data compression
with “high” compression on Iomega Automatic
Backup Pro software. Capacity may vary and is data
and software dependent. 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes
NOTE: The statements
contained in this release regarding development, production
and distribution of the new Iomega® REV Drive ,
anticipated product pricing, availability, and shipping
dates, expected product performance and specifications,
future applications for the new product and all other statements that are not
purely historical, are forward–looking statements within the meaning of
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All such forward–looking
statements are based upon information available to Iomega as of the date hereof,
and Iomega disclaims any intention or obligation to update any such forward–looking
statements. Actual results could differ materially from current expectations.
Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not
limited to, the successful completion of product development and testing, market
acceptance of, and demand for, the Iomega product, any difficulties encountered
in ramping up production or other manufacturing issues, including component availability
and pricing, co-development, production, and distribution issues, product pricing
and conformity to specifications, dependence upon third party suppliers, any
losses of key employees, competition, intellectual property rights and other
risks and uncertainties identified in the reports filed from time to time by
Iomega with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including Iomega's Annual
Report on Form 10–K for the year ended December 31, 2003, and its most
recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
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Copyright© 2004 Iomega Corporation. All rights reserved. Iomega,
Zip, REV, Active Disk, iStorage, HotBurn and QuikTouch
are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Iomega Corporation
in the United States and/or other countries. Certain other product names,
brand names and company names may be trademarks or designations of their
respective owners.
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