MTI & HTC Launch Service

IRVINE, Calif. -- MTI Technology Corporation (Nasdaq: MTIC - News), a multi-national provider of consulting services and comprehensive information infrastructure solutions, and Horry Telephone Cooperative (HTC), the nation's largest telephone cooperative, jointly announced today "HTC E2IT Remote Recovery Services," a technology solution to support a new remote data recovery service.

MTI implemented this new backup and recovery service for HTC to help its small to medium business (SMB) customers protect and restore vital data in the event of a disaster. HTC E2IT is the umbrella under which HTC will offer a comprehensive menu of managed services, including Remote Recovery Services, Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) design, firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) security, and intrusion detection services.

"Our HTC E2IT Remote Recovery Services are designed to provide real peace of mind for our customers, especially those who have businesses frequently faced with the threat of disruptions from any type of disaster," stated Brent Groome, chief executive, customer operations for HTC. "We relied on MTI's industry-leading expertise in designing and implementing backup and recovery solutions to develop a service that offers our SMB clients an enterprise-level quality of disaster recovery capability at a fraction of the cost."

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