26 April 2006, Auburn, CA - ioSafe today announced that Design News magazine has honored its Disaster Ready Drive S1 with a Golden Mousetrap Award in the Hardware and Software category.

"Design News magazine is thrilled to recognize ioSafe's Disaster Ready Digital Storage technology with a Golden Mousetrap Best Product Award this year," said Editor-in-Chief Karen A. Field. "Our readers named the DRD-S1 as one of the most innovative new technologies introduced in the past year."

As the first disaster-ready computer peripheral, ioSafe has created an entirely new product category for business continuity and disaster recovery. By combining ioSafe's fire, flood and theft resistant technology with EMC® Retrospect® backup software and a 24/7/365 Disaster Response Team support, the ioSafe Disaster Ready Drive offers a unique, comprehensive solution for all critical business and personal data.

"We're excited to receive this award from the readers of Design News. As an engineer, it's very validating for ioSafe technology to be chosen by fellow engineers as the most innovative new computer hardware/software product," says Robb Moore, CEO of ioSafe. "The Design News readers have recognized that the ioSafe solution represents a tectonic shift in today's disaster recovery strategies," continued Moore.

The winning products are profiled in the March 20, 2006 edition of Design News and on its website at www.designnews.com

For more than two decades, the Design News Awards Program has recognized engineering innovation and creativity in product design. Design News, a Reed Business publication, has a circulation of 170,000 design engineers.

Price and Availability: ioSafe Disaster Ready Drive S1 MSRP $2750 - $3150.

The product is shipping now. The ioSafe Disaster Ready Drive also includes the award winning Dantz® Retrospect. Backup Software and up to five years support from the ioSafe 24/7/365 Disaster Response Team.

About ioSafe

ioSafe provides disaster-proof hardware to protect business and personal digital assets, enabling business continuity through data disaster recovery. Like an "aircraft black box," ioSafe technology provides more reliable and less expensive data backup for remote or branch offices and small/medium businesses while greatly simplifying regulatory compliance for data storage. With its patented FloSafe Vent technology, only ioSafe offers forced-air cooled data storage for true business-class reliability and disaster protection. InformationWeek called ioSafe the "most interesting technology" at the May 2007 Las Vegas Interop® trade show.

ioSafe is a privately held company with headquarters in Auburn, Calif. For more information, please visit www.iosafe.com.