NTI Shadow 5 Ready for Lion Mac OS X

To celebrate the arrival of Mac OS X Lion, NTI Corporation announced its data protection software, NTI Shadow 5, is ready for Lion.

For a limited time, NTI is offering a special discount price of $9.99 (i.e. 75% off MSRP $49.99) to help give Mac users a full backup of Snow Leopard when upgrading to Lion.

"Upgrading to a new OS often times lead to troubles," said Hiroshi Nishimura, Mac Product Manager at NTI Corporation. "Having a clone backup of the previous OS gives you the protection and convenience just in case you need to go back."

Why Cloning:

• Cloning doesn’t require the user to spend hours restoring from a backup. The user can simply boot up from the clone and use it as is.
• Cloning creates an exact copy of the original partition in its native format
• Clones of boot partitions can be used to boot the Mac
• No need to restore to use a clone

Once Lion has been installed, the user can install and use Shadow 5 on Lion. Shadow 5 can be used to clone the Lion installation as a backup, maintain continuous backups of your data, or synchronize data between various drives.

Pricing and Availability
Now through July 31, 2011, Shadow 5 is available from the NTI online store for a promotional price of $9.99 (US). Shadow 5 is also available at select retail outlets for a suggested retail price of $49.99 (US). A downloadable 30-day trial version is available. Shadow 5 is a Universal Binary application for Mac OS X Lion, Snow Leopard, and Leopard.

NTI Shadow 5 OEM licensing is also available for software bundling with USB/FireWire drives, external hard disks, and NAS devices. The software is available in 26 languages including English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.