ActionFront Recovers North-Pole Server Data; Naughty/nice list restored just in time for gift cross-referencing.

Critical Response Service tackles toughest assignment yet, to save Global database.

(Atlanta, GA) -- December 24, 2002 -- ActionFront Data Recovery Labs today announced that their swat team" of data recovery specialists had completed their most unusual assignment. The Critical Response team recently traveled to the North Pole to recover Santas data.

Barry Merry, Santas data center manager (formerly elf in charge of the naughty and nice paper ledgers,) said We installed our network server 3 years ago and never had a problem. During a routine upgrade in early December (to get ready for increased demand this Christmas) we lost all access to our data. We tried to restore our backup, but the tapes were frozen and wouldnt load properly. We searched the Internet for help after our technical elves couldnt solve the problem. After finding the new ActionFront Data Emergency Guide * IT Professional Edition" we believed that we had found the kind of help we needed. What clinched it for us was finding out that Nicholas was the name of President of ActionFront.

Size, complexity and of course a calendar deadline that could not be missed made this our biggest data challenge to date" states ActionFront President Nick Majors. Best of all, I finally made it on the nice list this year."

Both the Data Emergency Guide * IT Professional Edition and the original Data Emergency Guide are available for free at www.actionfront.com.

ActionFront Data Recovery Labs recovers information from downed computers and backups. Serving thousands of personal and business customers each year, ActionFront retrieves lost data from all types of digital media, including hard drives, tapes, floppies, optical disks, network servers, RAID, NAS, SAN and tape libraries, and from corrupted SQL, Oracle, and Exchange Server file sets. In addition to fast turn-around in-lab services, ActionFront Critical Response teams are available 24/7 to restore mission-critical operations.

ActionFront, the only data recovery company in the world to be certified to the ISO 9001:2000 standard, serves customers from locations in

Atlanta, Buffalo, Santa Clara, Toronto, and Tokyo.

For more information, call Ron Austin at (800) 563 1167 ext.225, or visit the companys website at www.ActionFront.com.

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