BRU™ technology is being used to protect the irreplaceable and priceless data streaming in from the Mars and Saturn projects, as well as many NASA® programs. You too can trust your critical information to the care of BRU with confidence.

About TOLIS Group, Inc.

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TOLIS Group "Behind the Scenes"

TOLIS Group, Inc., is a privately held profitable and debt-free corporation headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. The singular focus of TOLIS Group™ is the development and support of ultra-reliable data backup and restore solutions for end-users and OEMs based on TOLIS Group's proven BRU™ technology.

The genesis of BRU in 1985 as a commercially available tool was driven by the inability of popular tar-based operations to reliably backup and restore archives on Unix systems. The mandate of BRU's design was to return the most data possible during a restore, limited only by physical damage.

To achieve the mandate, BRU was essentially designed "backwards" by first defining the necessary checks and balances that would come into play during a restore and then implementing them into the backup process. This is a profound difference from a "backup forward" design approach, and, unlike other tools, BRU solutions are able to recover from read and tape read errors during a restore to return the most data possible. In an age of 30-50% data recovery failure rates being realized, BRU technology delivers Backup You Can Trust℠.

In 1994, BRU Backup & Restore Utility became the first available commercial Linux® application (not just backup) for end-users, released at Linux kernel 0.99pl12. Since then, BRU has been awarded more recognition from the Linux community than any other backup software tool. TOLIS Group now provides BRU Server™, BRU Workstation™, and BRU Desktop™ for Linux and Unix systems.

In 2003 TOLIS Group engaged in the Macintosh® market place, releasing solutions that draw on BRU's heritage of reliable backup to provide the same proven performance for Mac OS X users enjoyed by Unix users. BRU Server™ and BRU Producer's Edition™ for Mac OS X® are now setting the high-water standard of Mac OS X backup and restore. Additional solutions for Mac OS X include bruCLONE™, TOLIS Group's Mac OS X hard disk cloning tool, and TOLIS Tape Tools™ which is available to transfer existing tar, cpio and pax archives to the Mac OS X platform.

In January of 2005 TOLIS Group announced its bruAPP™ Backup Appliance solution. A data backup and restore-focused appliance that delivers the industry's first truly "server-less" backup services across client/server system topologies. The bruAPP Backup Appliance virtually eliminates the configuration, installation, and compatibility issues faced when designing and building a data backup system. In January of 2010, TOLIS Group entered further into the hardware market providing one stop shopping and support for tape and BRU software bundled offerings.

BRU technology also provides unparalleled support of regulatory governance.

TOLIS Group is affiliated with key players in the IT market, and proudly supports a breadth of organizations worldwide, from single system businesses to corporate entities (view a sampling below).

Sampling of TOLIS Group Customers:

Private Sector — Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox Studios, Broadway Video, CNN, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Urban Outfitters, Pinewood Studios, 24/7 Real Media, Apple Computer, Artist Direct, Burton Snowboards, Aerovironment Inc., Baron & Baron, Inc., Technicolor, Crush, Danish Film Institute, Australian Film Institute, Thrill Hill Recording, Toys "R" Us, DDB Advertising Worldwide, Walt Disney, The Tire Rack, Jazz at the Lincoln Center, Los Angeles Dodgers, Le Club de Hockey Canadien, and numerous others across the world in all industries from entertainment and multimedia to sports, newspapers, retail and all other business types imaginable.

Public Sector — US Air Force, Lockheed Martin, US Navy, NASA, USGAO, US Naval Research Laboratory, Los Alamos Labs, US Forest Service, US Courts, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, TASC, Northrup Grumman, Fleet Numerical, State Senate of Pennsylvania, Raytheon, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Geological Survey, Argonne National Laboratory, and numerous other state, local and federal agencies including many additional military installations.

Education — MIT, Harvard University and its affiliates, Mass General Hospital, Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Berklee School of Music, Penn State, California State University, University of California (including UCSF, Santa Barbra, Davis etc…), University of Michigan, University of Chicago, Notre Dame University, Cornell University, Smithsonian Observatory, Columbia University, and numerous other statewide colleges, universities, as well as local school districts throughout the USA, Canada and worldwide.