Industry-leading software from MGI, Altiris and Aladdin Systems will ship with Iomega’s new award-winning Peerless drive systems, which will be available in the second quarter of 2001. Iomega will also participate in joint marketing activities with MGI, Corel and Altiris in support of the product’s launch. Consumers can pre-order Iomega’s Peerless drive system today at http://www.iomega.com.

With our partners’ software and Iomega’s new Peerless drive system, users will enjoy the freedom to simply and flexibly manage massive files on a disk that slips into a shirt pocket, said Doug Collier, senior vice president, marketing and product management, Iomega Corporation. We’re pleased to offer this added value to our customers and give them this tremendous functionality right out of the box.

An Iomega edition of MGI PhotoSuite software will be included with Peerless drives. PhotoSuite provides image editing and photo project capabilities designed to make Web and PC photography easy. An Iomega edition of MGI VideoWave will also be included with Peerless drives, allowing even novice users to combine video clips, animation, graphics, photos and audio into professional-quality business presentations, Web content, home movies, training materials and more.

Iomega’s Peerless drive raises the bar for removable storage and will be a boon to those who create and exchange photo and video files created with MGI PhotoSuite and VideoWave, said Ihor Petelycky, chief product strategist, MGI.

For Macintosh(R) users, Aladdin ShrinkWrap 3.5.1 will provide customers with the ability to create disk images — exact byte-for-byte copies — of hard disks, floppies, CDs, files or any type of data.

The combination of a Peerless disk and ShrinkWrap software creates a powerful solution for enterprise customers and home users to do anything from creating a simple backup of their entire hard drive to migrating the entire contents of an old computer to a new system, said Pauline Shumake, ShrinkWrap product manager, Aladdin Systems.

Altiris PC TransplantTM software, which is also included with Iomega Peerless drives, enables users to quickly and simply move key files, directories, and personal settings from one computer to another. It employs a wizard-based interface to help identify and capture this information for the user’s desktop, network and applications and builds it into a compressed, self-extracting Personality Package.

With PC Transplant software, operating system migrations are simplified by cloning the system and migrating each PC’s unique name and IP address (or DHCP settings), automatically recreating a user account with network and sharing rights, printer drivers, and desktop personality intact. The combination of PC Transplant software and the Iomega Peerless drive system breaks new ground in simplifying the challenges of upgrading remote users.

Using PC Transplant to migrate all user preferences and personality onto a 20 gigabyte Peerless disk, a user can arrive at a remote location and be ready to work without even losing his or her preferred wallpaper or Internet favorites, said Tyler Smith, vice president of marketing at Altiris. The future of computing rests in allowing users to work at any time from any location, and Iomega’s Peerless disk is well positioned for that future.

A special flash demo of CorelDraw(R) 10 Graphics Suite will also ship on the application CD for all Iomega Peerless drives. Peerless customers benefit from a limited-time offer to purchase Corel’s award-winning application at a special price. CorelDraw 10 Graphics Suite delivers vector illustration, layout, bitmap creation, image editing, painting and animation software all in one package.

We are pleased to coordinate our marketing efforts with Iomega, said Jon Riis, director of OEM sales at Corel Corporation. Iomega’s Peerless drive provides enormous value to the workflow of professional designers and graphic artists, who require memory-intensive software. Customers benefit from the inherent value in both Corel and Iomega products.