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Iomega REV Drive Backup Kit Bundle Now Includes CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup

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Chris Romoser, Iomega Corporation, (858) 314-7148romoser@iomega.com

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For Immediate Release

Iomega REV Drive Backup Kit Bundle Now Includes CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup
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The Ideal SMB Backup and Archive Solution: One REV Drive, Six REV disks, and Server Backup and Disaster Recovery Software For Under $600

SAN DIEGO, November 07, 2005- Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM), a global leader in data storage celebrating 25 years of business in 2005, today announced that its Iomega® REV™ Backup Kit now ships with Computer Associates® BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup software, giving small businesses and computer professionals a complete enterprise-strength solution for server and workstation backup including disaster recovery.

The Iomega® REV™ Backup Kit includes a REV drive (with either a USB 2.0 interface or an ATAPI interface) and six removable Iomega 35GB* REV disks for a native backup capacity of 210GB or a compressed capacity over 400GB. BrightStor ARCserve Backup software provides full support for advanced network backup features including disk spanning and disaster recovery. An ideal backup and archive solution for small and medium sized businesses, the Iomega REV Backup Bundle is available for only $599.

The Iomega REV drive and removable disks provide a business-class backup solution that allows for removable media rotation. This enables access to past versions of files to recover from viruses, file deletions and file corruptions that would otherwise propagate to a single hard disk backup solution. The removable REV disks can also be taken offsite to guard against catastrophic events such as fire, flood or other disasters that might destroy the onsite backup.

"Iomega's REV products lower the cost of backing up and archiving critical data for small and medium-sized businesses while delivering industry-leading reliability and speed," said Ron Gillies, Vice President and General Manager, Americas Business Unit, Iomega Corporation. "The REV drive and BrightStor ARCserve Backup software make a natural team in the server environment, bringing together two leading products that our customers already know and trust."

BrightStor ARCserve Backup is an advanced data protection solution that enables organizations to protect the integrity and availability of critical business data on Microsoft Windows, NetWare, Linux, UNIX, and MAC OS X servers and clients.

"Today's small and medium-sized businesses have a pressing need for easy-to-operate solutions that will enable them to cost-effectively manage and protect their growing volume of increasingly critical data," said Wayne Salpietro, director of BrightStor storage marketing at CA. "By incorporating CA's BrightStor ARCserve Backup with its REV Drive technology, Iomega is meeting this major market need."

About Iomega REV Products
The Iomega REV drive has earned strong industry support since its introduction in early 2004. Easy to use, up to 8 times faster** and less than half the price of most competing tape products, Iomega REV drive products outperform more expensive tape alternatives like DDS-4, DAT-72, VXA®, AIT-1, and DLT VS80. Tape drives also impose significant media, maintenance and administration costs on the backup and restore process. REV products and BrightStor ARCserve software make the process simpler and cheaper, while reducing the backup time by up to 70 percent***. To date, Iomega has sold more than 125,000 REV drives and 600,000 REV disks.

The Iomega® REV™ 35GB drive is currently shipping in ATAPI, external USB 2.0, FireWire®, SCSI, SATA and multi-disk autoloader configurations. Iomega REV products have won more than 15 industry awards worldwide, including "Best of CeBIT America" for personal hardware and, most recently, the winner in the storage category for CMP Media's third annual VARBusiness Tech Innovator Awards, announced on Oct. 20, 2005.

The 35GB REV disk is smaller than a deck of playing cards (10 x 77 x 75 mm) and delivers exceptional read-write performance of up to 25 MB/sec. with much greater durability than tape-an estimated one million rewrites. REV disks are also engineered for a long shelf life, estimated at 30 years.

Pricing and Availability
The Iomega® REV™ Backup Kit with a USB 2.0 REV Drive, six 35GB REV disks and Computer Associates® BrightStor® ARCserve® backup software is available now for $599.00 from value-added resellers, the distribution and catalog channels, online etailers and Iomega.com. The ATAPI version will be available later this month for $579.00. (All pricing is U.S. suggested retail.)

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, available in multiple interfaces, as well as the 10-cartridge, one-drive REV 1000 Autoloader; Zip® 100MB, 250MB and 750MB Drives; the new Iomega StorCenter™ Network Hard Drives, high-performance Iomega® External Hard Drives in desktop and portable configurations; Iomega Mini USB Drives, Micro Mini™ USB Drives, and the Iomega Mixx™ MP3 player; Iomega external CD-RW Drives; Iomega Super DVD Drives and the QuikTouch™ Video Burner; and Iomega Floppy USB-Powered Drives. 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 StorCenter Pro NAS servers offer capacities of 160GB to 1.6TB. 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.

NOTE: The statements contained in this release regarding development, production and distribution of the Iomega® REV™ Backup Kit, anticipated product pricing and availability, 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, 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, 2004, and its most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

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* 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes

** Compared to DDS-4

*** Compared to Travan, DDS 4, DAT 72, AIT-1 and DLT

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