IPR International Honored with “Midsize Enterprise Innovation™ Award”
for Best Presentation at Midsize Enterprise Summit

Conshohocken, PA, May 3, 2005 — IPR International, a leader in data protection and recovery, today announced that it won the Midsize Enterprise Innovation Award™ for Best Presentation at the Midsize Enterprise Summit held on April 17-20 in New Orleans, Louisiana. This award recognizes creativity in the design, content and delivery of the company’s mid-market message to IT decision-makers through presentations delivered at the conference.
The Midsize Enterprise Innovation Awards are the only awards voted on solely by the attending Senior IT Executives.  A Midsize Enterprise Innovation Award signifies that attendees recognize a company’s level of excellence and contribution to the event.
“We are honored to be recognized with this award from the Midsize Enterprise Summit Senior IT Executive attendees,” said Michael Emmi, Chairman and CEO of IPR International. "IPR is pleased by the overwhelmingly positive reception of our innovative presentation about the importance of data backup and recovery.  It is a testament to our unique vision of data backup and recovery as well as our service-based approach to helping companies protect their data and achieve true operational resilience."
IPR’s presentation, “Recovery First” presided over by Dr. Jerry Smith, IPR’s Chief Technology Officer, helped attendees understand common issues in today’s flawed approaches to backup and recovery.  Taking a folksy, common-sense approach much like a television talk show, Dr. Jerry interviews several guest panelists about their backup and recovery problems and points out how their problems could be resolved using Dr. Jerry’s 10 Laws of Recovery.  

About Midsize Enterprise Summit
Midsize Enterprise Summit brings Senior IT Executives from midsize businesses together with Gartner Analysts, and leading and emerging Technology Vendors. The focus—enabling strategic IT Decision-Making—embraces midmarket-specific issues, trends and solutions from a horizontal and vertical industry-specific perspective. The business-intensive format includes Gartner-led sessions, Vendor-led World Premiere and Private Boardroom Appointments, a Showcase of Exhibits, and networking functions.

About Vision Events
Vision Events, a Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT and ITB) company, is a leading producer of highly focused business events that bring resellers and end users together with leading and emerging vendors in private boardroom appointments to form strategic partnerships and secure new business in the technology sector. Additional information about Vision Events can be found at
http://www.visionevents.com.

About IPR International

IPR International, LLC, the leader in data protection and recovery for small-to-midsize to enterprise-level organizations, offers solutions that ensure instant data backup, recovery, archiving, and retrieval, no matter where the data resides.  IPR’s comprehensive, best-of-breed products and services protect the information assets and the business viability of organizations in today’s highly regulated, and increasingly high-risk 24x7 environment.

In partnership with leading hardware and software vendors, IPR is a trusted source for solutions to protect and preserve data, throughout its lifecycle, providing complete access, the highest level of data security and integrity and disaster recovery best practices—at very competitive prices.   From guaranteed backup systems to archiving processes based on today’s most cost effective WORM technology, IPR provides reliable and verifiable data retrieval solutions that are unequalled.

IPR is headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania and serves clients worldwide.  For more information, please visit www.iprintl.com.

Media Contacts:

Beth Hespe/Mari Silbey
Garfield Group Public Relations
215-867-8600, x235/245

Alice Quinn
IPR International
484-533-6800