BakBone Named Rising Star in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program for San Diego
17 August 2004 - 3:30PM
PR Newswire (US)
BakBone Named Rising Star in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program
for San Diego SAN DIEGO, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BakBone
Software (OTC Bulletin Board: BKBOF; TSX: BKB), a global provider
of data protection software, has been named a Rising Star by the
San Diego Technology Fast 50 Program hosted by Deloitte and Touche
LLP, one of the nation's leading professional services firms. The
Rising Star award is a special designation for fast-growth
technology companies that have been in business just three or four
years and is part of the San Diego Technology Fast 50 program,
which ranks the 50 fastest growing technology companies
headquartered in San Diego. Rankings are based on the percentage of
growth in fiscal year revenues over three years (2001 to 2003). The
rankings are scheduled to be announced on September 28, 2004.
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BakBone's president and CEO, Keith Rickard credits the Company's
competitive superiority in areas such as Linux, Network Attached
Storage and Disk-to-Disk backup for BakBone's rapid growth over the
last four years. "We are proud to receive this recognition from
Deloitte and equally proud of the employees who have helped us grow
our revenues from $3.2 million to $27 million in the last four
years," said Rickard. "BakBone's phenomenal success is being driven
by customers who are eager for innovative data protection solutions
that can be easily deployed to streamline backup and recovery,
improve IT staff efficiencies and reduce costs. BakBone's solutions
are enabling enterprises to do just that, which is why we have been
able to attract more than 9,000 customers worldwide and a network
of nearly 250 certified resellers and integration partners." "The
Deloitte San Diego Technology Fast 50 Rising Star companies have
shown the strength, vision and temerity to succeed despite a very
challenging technology environment," said Helen Adams, partner,
Deloitte's Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice, San
Diego. "We applaud the successes of BakBone Software and
acknowledge their place as one of the few to accomplish such a fast
growth rate over the past three years." To qualify for the
Technology Fast 50 Rising Star program, companies must have had
operating revenues of at least $50,000 in 2001 and $1,000,000 in
2003, must be public or private companies headquartered in North
America, and be a "technology company" defined as owning
proprietary technology that contributes to a significant portion of
the company's operating revenues (using other companies' technology
in a unique way does not qualify); and/or devoting a significant
portion of revenues to research and development of technology.
Rising Star winners are automatically entered in the Deloitte
Technology Fast 500 program's Rising Star category. The Deloitte
Technology Fast 500 program ranks North America's top 500 fastest
growing technology companies based on revenue growth over five
years (1999-2003). Its Rising Star ranking is based on revenue
growth over three years (2001-2003). For more information on the
Deloitte Technology Fast 50 or Fast 500 programs, visit
http://www.fast500.com/. About Deloitte Deloitte, one of the
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& Touche LLP and Deloitte Consulting LLP) and subsidiaries.
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firms do not provide services in all four professional areas listed
above. About BakBone Software, Inc. BakBone Software is a leading
international data protection solution provider that develops and
distributes data backup, restore, and disaster recovery software
for network storage and open-systems environments. BakBone delivers
scalable solutions that address the complex demands of large
enterprise environments, as well as small to medium sized
businesses. Founded in 2000, BakBone products are used by Fortune
1000 corporations and domestic and international government
entities. Distributed through a select global network of OEM
partners, resellers and solution providers, interested companies
can learn more information about BakBone's products and services at
http://www.bakbone.com/ or email . BakBone, BakBone Software,
NetVault, Application Plugin Module, APM and the BakBone logo are
all trademarks or registered trademarks of BakBone Software, Inc.,
in the United States and/or in other countries. All other brands,
products or service names are or may be trademarks, registered
trademarks or service marks of, and used to identify, products or
services of their respective owners. For more information, please
contact: Dani Kenison, Manager, Public Relations of BakBone
Software, Inc., +1-858-795-7584, .
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