To celebrate the arrival of Mac OS X Lion, NTI today annoucned that its data protection software, NTI Shadow 5, is ready for Lion, offered in a special discount price.

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

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.

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

Now through July 31, 2011, Shadow 5 is available from the NTI online store (www.NTIcorp.com) for a promotional price of $9.99 (US). Shadow 5 is also available at retail outlets for a suggested retail price of $49.99 (US). A downloadable 30-day trial version is available at www.NTIcorp.com/download.