Storage industry vet George Symons joins Yosemite Technologies as CEO

Former EMC and Legato CTO brings storage management software expertise to Yosemite's backup and recovery product portfolio

San Jose, CA — October 23, 2006 — Yosemite Technologies, Inc., a global provider of backup software solutions that span from single server environments to the enterprise, announced today it has appointed George Symons as Company CEO. Symons joins Yosemite from EMC, where he served as Chief Technology Officer for Information Management, responsible for defining EMC's product and technical strategy. He also played key roles in the integration of Legato enterprise backup and recovery products and Documentum content management software into EMC.  The search was conducted by Taylor Winfield, Inc.

"Yosemite has strong products, solid partnerships and good people, and I've been inspired by the vision and concepts the executive team and board of directors have for the company," Symons said. "With so many positive qualities, including OEM partners, loyal distributors, channel partners and users, I have every confidence we can build this company's product line, expand its market reach and increase revenue."

"We are thrilled with George's decision to join Yosemite Technologies," said Dennis Hagobian, President and COO of Yosemite Technologies. "George brings a wealth of talent and experience to the position, and the entire company is eager to be moving forward under his leadership."

Prior to EMC, Symons held positions within Legato including CTO, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, and Vice President of Development and Product Management. He was involved in the integration of products from SCH Technologies and OTG into Legato's product line, and later in the acquisition of Legato by EMC. Prior to that he was Vice President of Engineering at FullTime Software, VP of Marketing at Software Research and PROCASE Corporation, and also held product marketing and product management positions at Sun Microsystems. Symons has B.A. degrees in Computer Science and Management Science from University of California, San Diego, and an M.B.A from University of California, Los Angeles.

"The board of directors conducted an exhaustive search and we are delighted with the results," said Tom Cole, General Partner at Trinity Ventures, and board member at Yosemite Technologies. "George possesses broad and deep experience in the storage software arena, a strong track record, and the skills and determination needed to take our company to the next level."

"In this age of celebrity CEOs, its great to see a company like Yosemite bring in a CEO who combines an engineering technology focus along with marketing and business experience, not to mention a great resume for those who value marquee pedigrees" said Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst, The StorageIO Group.

About Yosemite Technologies
Yosemite Technologies is a global provider of backup software solutions that span from single server environments to the enterprise. Yosemite develops heterogeneous solutions that protect environments running Microsoft® Windows, Linux, and NetWare®. Yosemite's flagship product, Yosemite Backup™ Advanced, represents the next generation of enterprise backup software with Self Tuning Logic™ for fast backup and restore operations and an integrated Virtual Library option, D2D2Ne™, that provides multi-level, heterogeneous 'disk to disk to any' backup. Yosemite has developed strong technology and channel partnerships with leading companies including HP, Dell, Microsoft, Quantum, Gateway and Exabyte. The company's commitment to Backup Simplified™ represents Yosemite's focus on delivering products that offer unmatched performance, ease-of-use and value.  Investors include Trinity Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Altos Ventures.  For more information, visit www.yosemitetech.com.

About Taylor Winfield, Inc.
Established in 1987, Taylor Winfield has been instrumental in building billions $$ in market value within the high technology industry, via retained executive search and strategic business development.  Through key relationships with premier private equity and venture capital firms, maturing client companies, and their executive network of visionary industry leaders, Taylor Winfield has conducted searches to create hundreds of high tech core management teams in Consumer Internet, Wireless, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Networking, Hardware, Services, and Semiconductors – and now Green Tech, Renewable Energy and Retail.  For more information, please visit www.taylorwinfield.com.