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Business Plan Competition Announces Fortress a Finalist

January 16, 2009 (LONDON, Ontario) The judging panel for VenturePrize London, the city’s premier business plan competition, announced Fortress Data Vaulting as one of five finalists.

"I’m absolutely thrilled with being selected", said Sean Sweeney, President and CEO of Fortress Data Vaulting, Inc. "Congratulations and good luck to the other four finalists. The final round should be exciting to say the least."

The winners of VenturePrize London will be announced at an awards celebration on February 10, 2009 following the finalists’ presentations to the last judging panel. "We are pleased with the business community’s response to the first year of VenturePrize London," says Nancy Kopriva, chair of the VenturePrize London steering committee. "Our committee is looking forward to the final judges’ decisions and truly thanks those who took the time and effort to submit their business plan."

VenturePrize London features over $45,000 in cash and prizes to be won, with cash and prize packages from sponsors such as Scotiabank, Bizzmail and Lovers AtWork. The business plan competition was developed by four of the city’s economic and business development organizations: The London Economic Development Corporation, Small Business Centre, The Stiller Centre and TechAlliance. For more information about VenturePrize London, visit www.ventureprizelondon.com.

Fortress Data Vaulting, Inc. (www.fortressdatavaulting.com) is a service and consulting firm that specializes in business continuity/disaster recovery analysis, planning and the provision of associated support solutions such as the AutoBackupRemote Backup and Archive Service. Catering to the needs of any sized business, FDV supplies the necessary tools to deal with business stoppages, interruptions and attacks such as fires, floods, data corruption, sabotage, viruses, human error, hardware malfunction, lawsuits, regulatory negligence etc.

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For more information contact:

Sean Sweeney (Fortress Data Vaulting, Inc.) at 519 913 2677, via the web at www.fortressdatavaulting.com, or through the following social networking options.

Nancy Kopriva at 519 659 2882 ext. 234 or through e-mail at nkopriva@sbcentre.ca.

Fortress Data Vaulting Inc. is a member of the FortressITGroup of companies.