KIRKLAND, Wash., April 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bocada Inc., the world's leading provider of data protection management software and the creator of the Data Protection Service Management (DPSM) model, today announced it will join Backup Central Live!, a series of seminars in major cities beginning April 26. Backup Central Live! is hosted by BackupCentral.com, the web's most popular destination for backup and recovery information.

(Logo:  http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090714/LA45649LOGO)

Each seminar features independent content from independent writer, speaker, and consultant W. Curtis Preston, as well as presentations from sponsoring vendors. The seminars cover topics such as cloud backup, data protection services, deduplication, continuous data protection (CDP), archiving, and backup media.

"This seminar is an opportunity to connect directly with end users and explain how the DPSM process enhances backup reliability and efficiency, reduces risk, optimizes available resources, and improves backup SLAs," said Nancy Hurley, CEO of Bocada. "We look forward to relaying how organizations use the Bocada DPSM model and our solutions to analyze their data protection environments in a deeper, more meaningful way, resulting in improvements in operational efficiencies and lower costs."

"Attendees and sponsors alike love Backup Central Live! and we couldn't be more pleased," said Preston. "Bocada is a welcome addition for their expertise in effective data protection service management practices."

Bocada will present at Backup Central Live! events in Raleigh NC April 26 and Boston MA April 28. Attendance is free to qualified end-users; for more information or to register please see http://backupcentral-live.com.

About Backup Central

BackupCentral.com was founded in 1997 and is the industry's most popular website dedicated solely to backup and recovery, with tens of thousands of unique visitors every month. It contains the Mr. Backup Blog by independent writer, speaker, and consultant W. Curtis Preston, backup forums, and a wiki containing directories of backup and recovery products.

About Bocada

Bocada provides market leading data protection service management solutions to transform the way companies deliver data protection services to achieve greater business and IT alignment, maximize operational efficiency, minimize risk and increase customer satisfaction. Based on patented, agent-less technology, Bocada solutions deploy rapidly and scale to meet the demands of the largest multi-vendor data protection environments. Hundreds of enterprise organizations more effectively manage over 600,000 backup clients and servers with Bocada solutions. Headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, Bocada is privately held and funded by leading venture investors. For more information visit: www.bocada.com.

All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Bocada is a registered trademark of Bocada Inc.

Contact Agency:
Scott Kline, JPR Communications
818-884-8282
scottk@jprcom.com

SOURCE Bocada Inc.