Press Release: DriveSavers Expands Partnership to Offer More Professional Photographers Fast, Reliable and Certified Secure Data Recovery Services

DriveSavers has helped over 1,000 PPA members recover lost images

Nashville, TN (IMAGING USA, Booth # 672)—January 11, 2010—DriveSavers Data Recovery has expanded its exclusive agreement to now include the allied associations of Professional Photographers of America (PPA): Stock Artist Alliance (SAA), Society of Sport & Event Photographers (SEP), Commercial Photographers International (CPI) and Evidence Photographers International Council (EPIC). DriveSavers offers the fastest, most reliable and only certified secure data recovery service, recovers data from hard drives, memory cards, RAID systems, iPods, CDs and more. Through this partnership, members of these organizations will receive discounts on all data recovery services from DriveSavers with a no data, no charge policy.

“We are thrilled to expand the partnership with DriveSavers premier data recovery services to our allied associations,” said Claire White, PPA’s Allied Association Director. “DriveSavers has helped our members with a variety of seemingly impossible problems including the recovery of digital photos from hard drives or media cards and the recovery of accounting records, client information, calendars and customer mailing lists.”

In the event that digital photos and/or other critical data are lost, members from these organizations now have a professional data recovery service from DriveSavers to recover any lost information. Through this partnership, members receive a discount on DriveSavers services. If the data is not recoverable, members will not be charged a recovery fee for Standard and Economy Services. (For network and multiple drives, there is a minimum discounted attempt charge.) Information about data recovery discounts can be found on each association’s Members Only Area.

For additional information about DriveSavers, please visit drivesaversdatarecovery.com. For additional information about the Professional Photographers of America, please visit www.ppa.com.

About PPA

Professional Photographers of America (PPA), a worldwide association, exists to assist its more than 18,000 members in achieving their professional, artistic, and fraternal goals; to promote public awareness of the profession; and to advance the making of images in all of its disciplines as an art, a science and a visual recorder of history. For more information, visit www.ppa.com.

About Commercial Photographers International (CPI)

CPI is dedicated to helping professional photographers enhance their professionalism and improve their businesses. We are specifically helping commercial photographers diversify and refine their professional products and services in order to stay competitive. We also assist businesses in finding top quality professionals around the world. For more information on CPI, go to www.mycpi.com.

About Society of Sport and Event Photographers (SEP)

The Society of Sport & Event Photographers (SEP) is a private, nonprofit association dedicated exclusively to serving the needs of sport and event photographers. SEP marshals the resources of the event photography industry and delivers them to its members via their exclusive online content, Action News publication and live events. For more information call 877-427-3778.

About Stock Artists Alliance (SAA):

SAA is the only trade association focused on the business of stock photography. SAA supports its membership with exclusive benefits to enable and enhance their stock businesses. SAA also speaks up for the interests of stock artists with a clear and powerful voice in the licensing industry. The heart of SAA’s mission is education and advocacy concerning core issues, such as the need to better protect and promote licensing through the use of standardized metadata. Follow SAA on Twitter.

About DriveSavers

DriveSavers is the worldwide leader in data recovery services and provides the fastest, most reliable and only certified SOC 2 Type II data recovery service—guaranteed. DriveSavers high security services adhere to U.S. Government security protocols to ensure that no data is ever compromised during data recovery. DriveSavers maintains the most technologically advanced Certified ISO Class 5 (Class 100) Cleanroom in the industry and is authorized to open drives by all major storage device manufacturers without voiding the warranty. DriveSavers engineers are certified, by leading encryption software vendors, to recover encrypted data from all storage devices and all operating systems. Satisfied customers include: Bank of America, Google, Lucasfilm, NASA, Harvard University, Salvation Army and The Rolling Stones.