Released on = May 13, 2007, 5:20 pm

Press Release Author = Horrell Communications

Industry = Small Business

Press Release Summary = Professional speaker, author and consultant Ed Horrell
recently discovered the world of online backup.

Press Release Body = Germantown, TN, May 14, 2007 - Professional speaker, author and
consultant, Ed Horrell, reports that he had a computer meltdown emergency two weeks
ago. When he returned to working after a break he turned on his PC and found, to his
alarm, that Microsoft Outlook wouldn't load properly.

Ed had not been backing up his critical data - contacts, schedule, deadlines - so he
was forced to hustle to find someplace where he could speak to someone live and
right away (it was around 8:00 PM). After much research, Ed found an online geek
place and spent around $80 getting walked through repairing his data. He went to
bed that night committed to getting his data backed up.

Ed discovered a sweet program called PACKRAT from http://www.packratus.com and
installed it. The question he had, however, was this: Knowing how vital his data
was for him, why did I wait so long to back it up?

He decided to go to the source and asked that question of the CEO of PACKRAT, Mark
Giannini. This is what he said.

"There is absolutely no reason that every personal computer, not to mention
corporate networks, is not backed up. As in your case, Ed, the data contained on
these systems can affect millions of individuals. Can you imagine the impact that
your loss of information would have had? Add the countless calls you would have
made simply to catch up, much less the lost productivity you would have had during
the catch up time.

We don't back up data here at PACKRAT. We do more than that..we save memories,
dreams, businesses and families. All of these connections are stored in computers
these days and, like yours, they must be protected."

Ed had never thought of his "data" that way, but Mark is correct. Ed would be
horrified to lose the pictures of his new grandson as well as the critical family
and business information that was all stored on his PC.

In the interest of research, Ed asked some of his friends and colleagues what would
be the most important information they would want to keep in the event of a problem
and the results were interesting. They included (in no certain order):

· Internet favorites: Most people save their favorite sites as a bookmark and, even
though they use them every day, they would be hard pressed to remember them if they
were lost.

· Email addresses: This was a critical issue for everyone Ed contacted.

· Family histories: This came up a lot. Everybody uses their PCs to house pictures
and memories. Like Mark said earlier, saving these memories is important.

· Games: Most people and their children have their favorite games downloaded to
their PC.

· Music: It takes time and money to collect these files and many people have a
large collection on their hard drive!

· Family business: This is very huge! These are the accounts, contacts, and
details of the whole "what if" scenarios of life.

Now that Ed has found PACKRAT he sleeps easier at night. and you should too!

Contact:

Ed Horrell
Horrell Communications
PO Box 382035
Germantown, TN 38183-2035
901-757-3768
http://www.EdHorrell.com

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Web Site = http://www.edhorrell.com

Contact Details = Professional speaker, author and consultant Ed Horrell recently
discovered the world of online backup.