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IRVINE--- Avamar Announces Clint McVey, a VERITAS Veteran, as Senior Vice President of Product Operations

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Avamar Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise data protection software that allows corporations to efficiently move, store, and leverage information for business value, today announced the addition of Clint McVey as the company's Senior Vice President of Product Operations. Mr. McVey most recently served as the General Manager/Vice President of the Data Management Group at VERITAS Software. As the as the GM/VP of the Data Management Group at VERITAS, Mr. McVey he led VERITAS' largest business unit, including the Backup Exec and NetBackup product lines. VERITAS was acquired by Symantec in July of 2005.

"Avamar is thrilled to add Clint McVey to the team," said Ed Walsh, CEO of Avamar. "Clint's background and expertise in the storage industry is an ideal match for taking Avamar to the next level of growth and success."

"I am really excited to be a part of such a high growth company like Avamar," stated Clint McVey. "Avamar's innovative enterprise data protection technology is well positioned to challenge current legacy data protection applications while allowing our customers the flexibility to utilize their existing infrastructure as they transition their environments to today's technology."

Prior to VERITAS, McVey was the Senior Director of Engineering at Seagate Software for the Backup Exec product line. During Clint's tenure at Seagate Software, Backup Exec became the industry's leading backup and recovery application with more than 40% market share in the Windows SMB server market. Clint also has significant Data Management and Networking experience from his tenures at Computer Associates, Cheyenne Software and Novell.

About Avamar

Avamar Technologies, Inc. (www.avamar.com) is the leading provider of enterprise data protection software that allows corporations to efficiently backup, store, and then leverage information for business value. Founded in 1999, Avamar provides data protection solutions for medium-sized businesses to large, multi-national corporations.