Founded in 2003 and funded by angel investors, the company pioneered disc-based continuous data protection technology for the small and medium enterprise market.

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Millions of users worldwide depend on the EAL 4 certified, enterprise-software standards-based GuardianEdge Data Protection Platform to safeguard confidential or proprietary information, to ensure compliance with regulations for maintaining consumer privacy and to enable secure enterprise mobility.

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Founded in 2003, StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides disk based backup, disaster recovery, data protection, migration, and security solutions to businesses of all sizes.

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For pollution levels, we used information from the American Lung Association's "State of the Air: 2007" report, which ranked the most polluted metropolitan areas by year-round particle pollution based on data submitted by states to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 2003-05.

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In the future, companies will have to deal only with the data protection authorities in the European Union country in which they are based.

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These gave the legal protection necessary when processing personal data belonging to EU citizens: A prerequisite when providing Web-based services to the European market.

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