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 "Behind the Scenes"

TOLIS Group, Inc., is a privately held profitable and debt-free corporation headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. The singular focus of TOLIS™ is the development, provision, and support of ultra-reliable data backup and restore solutions for end-users and OEMs, based on its proven BRU™ technology. The name TOLIS is an acronym for "Talented Organization Leveraging Intelligent Solutions."

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 developed "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(SM).

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. To this day, TOLIS continues to sponsor and administer the Tape Device Certification Program valued by tape manufacturers and end-users for its service (www.tapecert.org).

In 2003 TOLIS 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 LE™ for Mac OS X are now setting the high-water standard of Mac OS X backup and restore and the TOLIS Tape Tools™ solution is available to transfer existing archives when migrating to the Mac OS X platform.  Additional solutions for Mac OS X include bruCLONE™ and BRU Producers Edition™ for the music and film industry.

In January of 2005 TOLIS announced its bruAPP™ 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 appliance virtually eliminates the configuration, installation, and compatibility issues faced when designing and building a data backup system.

BRU technology also provides unparalleled support of regulatory governance.

TOLIS 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).

TOLIS' expertise is at your service, and we look forward to supporting your organization.

Yours in Data Recovery,
TOLIS Group

TOLIS Group Affiliations:

Avaya, Apple, Cisco, Exabyte, HP/Compaq, IBM, Lucent, MandrakeSoft, Microsoft, Panasonic, Qualstar, Quantum, Red Hat, Seagate, SCO Group, SGI, StorageTek, Sony, Sun, SuSE, Yellow Dog Linux, and Xandros.

Sampling of TOLIS Group Customers:

Private Sector - Boeing, NASDAQ, Sony Entertainment, Jaguar Motor Car Company, Papa Ginos, Verizon, Equifax, Schlumberger, Pabst Brewing, Dolby Labs, Greenfield Networks, Millennium Digital Media, Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox Studios, Oxygen Network, Pacific Sunware, CNN, FedEx, and a multitude of small business accounts.

Public Sector - Los Alamos Labs, Sandia National Labs, US Army Signal Corps, Lockheed Martin, US Navy, NASA, USGAO, US Forest Service, Admin Office, US Courts, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, US Air Force Academy, Lawrence Livermore Labs, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and numerous state and local government agencies.

Education - Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Duke University, UCLA, Rutgers University, Ohio State University, Marquette, Oklahoma State University, Brown, Cornell, and numerous local school districts.