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KVS AND BlueArc TEAM TO MANAGE THE GROWTH OF ENTERPRISE DATA

KVS, a leading e-mail and content archiving solutions provider, announced recently that it has formed a global strategic relationship with BlueArc Corporation, a leader in high performance, highly scalable network attached storage (NAS). The partnership delivers an end-to-end archiving and retrieval system for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint Portal Server data that helps companies manage the growth of data housed in corporate e-mail systems.

Enterprise Vault, the leading content lifecycle management solution for both Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint Portal Server, provides automated archive, search and retrieval of the long-term corporate assets found in e-mail, attachments and collaborative portal communities. The BlueArc SiliconServer provides a wire-speed network attached fixed storage solution that delivers maximum performance and scalability. By offering KVS Enterprise Vault with BlueArc SiliconServers, Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint customers can benefit from an enterprise e-mail archiving system that reduces operational costs and increases productivity.

"The data contained in e-mail is our organization's lifeblood," said Chris Farmer, NT systems engineer at Oxford Magnet Technology. "With data nearly doubling every year, we found that the back-end storage required to support that exponential growth was becoming increasingly costly. The BlueArc SiliconServer allows us to reduce the number of servers we need, while providing us with unmatched performance and scalability. Storing the KVS Enterprise Vault on the SiliconServer has solved our e-mail problems; we have been able to remove user quotas and avoid escalating growth of troublesome Personal Storage (PST) files."

With 16 billion e-mails generated everyday worldwide, e-mail has become the de-facto knowledge base for many organizations. As a result, e-mail content and its associated attachments need to be stored, not just for reference purposes, but, in many cases, to meet regulatory retention or compliance requirements. Unrestricted e-mail growth typically leads to the development of large, slow databases that are hard to protect. Frequently, the solution for managing the onslaught of data stored in e-mail is the enforcement of user quotas, which may lead to the growth of large PST files that consume large amounts of storage space, facilitating the need for the addition of disk space and servers. Archiving Exchange and SharePoint data to a fast, network-based file storage resource speeds backup time, reduces the amount of data on Exchange and SharePoint servers, and makes e-mail and document sharing more responsive.

"By combining our respective product strengths, we are able to deliver complete high-performance storage solutions with compelling operational cost and data management benefits," said Jeff Allen, senior vice president of Marketing at BlueArc Corporation. "BlueArc's SiliconServers deliver scalable, easy to manage storage solutions, and KVS addresses the explosion and management of e-mail. The KVS BlueArc partnership means that we are able to provide a strategic long-term answer to the problem of escalating corporate data and how it is cost effectively managed, stored and retrieved without delay."

Under the terms of the agreement, KVS and BlueArc will cross-reference and support their complementary products in the market. The companies already have a common customer in the UK with Oxford Magnet Technology, who is using BlueArc's SiliconServer to host all the company's data and KVS Enterprise Vault for e-mail archiving from the Microsoft Exchange server.

About BlueArc Corporation

BlueArc Corporation and its SiliconServer Architecture deliver the world's only file server designed to scale beyond today's 1 Gbps networks toward tomorrow's 10 Gbps networks. BlueArc's SiliconServer Architecture moves software into programmable hardware and removes the bottlenecks that limit performance in other NAS systems on the market today. BlueArc SiliconServers deliver groundbreaking speed and scalability, simplifying the way our customers design and build their storage infrastructures. The company's headquarters are in San Jose, California with UK operations based in Bracknell, England. More information on BlueArc is available on the Internet at www.bluearc.com.

About KVS

KVS is a leading provider of content archiving software for alleviating the pains, pressures and risk companies feel consequentially from the explosive growth of information in messaging and collaborative systems. From legal/regulatory compliance and risk mitigation to infrastructure and migration challenges, KVS brings industrial strength to e-mail and collaboration systems by delivering content archiving solutions that protect and prevent a company's intellectual capital from becoming lost or dormant.

The company's flagship product, Enterprise Vault reduces storage costs, simplifies the management of and enables the discovery of content held within Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint Portal Server environments. KVS is an international software company with offices in the UK, US, France, Germany, and Australia. Further details can be found at www.kvsinc.com KVS -- Store... Manage... Discover.