Wayne, PA April 30, 2008 -- 21st Century Software, Inc. has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the April 2008 "Cool Vendors in Compliance & Risk Management, 2008" report by Gartner, Inc.

21st Century Software was listed in the Gartner Report. The "Cool Vendors in Compliance & Risk Management, 2008" report notes that "risk management and compliance have become "the new frontier in software." Moreover, all the companies listed in the report "demonstrate a direct link to business goals, thus making the creation of a business case straightforward."

"We think 21st Century Software's inclusion in Gartner's 'Cool Vendor' report validates our 16-year history in providing Recovery Assurance solutions. We know that our customers operate their businesses in multi-platform environments based on interdependent data, and require a cross-platform, integrated solution to help ensure their critical applications and data can be recovered in any event," said Pete Wilson, president of 21st Century Software.

DR/VFI Recovery Assurance software helps business and IT executives continuously and accurately monitor their recoverability status in real-time across Mainframe and Open systems platforms. The integration of business recovery assurance strategies across platforms will help companies ensure their recoverability, and help achieve compliance, risk management, and recovery management objectives.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About 21st Century Software, Inc.
21st Century Software, Inc. develops and markets recovery assurance and enterprise disaster recovery solutions. For nearly 16 years, 21st Century Software's DR/VFI software solutions have provided vision and validation to enterprise backup strategies by determining the most critical files required by applications and providing the fastest path to recovery.