Sybari and CommVault Announce Alliance to Deliver Solutions to Protect Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint Portal Enterprises

Business Wire, April 9, 2002

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EAST NORTHPORT, N.Y. and OCEANPORT, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2002

Leading Vendors Join Forces to Deliver E-mail Security and Enterprise

Data Management Solutions to Enhance Support for Mutual Customers

Sybari Software, Inc., the premier developer of Antigen, a comprehensive antivirus, content-management, and e-mail security solution for Microsoft Exchange, and CommVault(R) Systems, Inc., a provider of unified enterprise data management solutions, have formed a sales and marketing alliance designed to deliver joint solutions to protect Exchange and SharePoint Portal enterprises and to enhance support for customers.

"Sybari and CommVault continue to garner industry accolades and customer recognition for their commitment and dedication to supporting Microsoft's collaboration platforms," said Cliff Reeves, Microsoft VP of Product Management for Windows Servers. "This sales and marketing agreement between the two companies will add greater value for Microsoft's customers by combining and leveraging each company's unique solutions for Microsoft Exchange 2000 and Sharepoint Portal Server 2002."

Sybari and CommVault receive similar requests by prospective customers to present robust and intuitive solutions to better protect and manage the data going in and out of their servers and networks. By jointly bringing leading enterprise security and management solutions to market, Sybari and CommVault can provide full-featured, robust solutions for Exchange and Sharepoint customers--to ensure higher availability, optimum performance and vigilant protection for their networks, while reducing operational expenses associated with downtime and lost productivity.

"At Sybari, we pride ourselves on our ability to provide highly specialized solutions and support for Microsoft enterprise server users," said Tom Buoniello, vice-president of product management for Sybari Software, Inc. "By joining forces with CommVault we have aligned ourselves with a partner who has consistently demonstrated their commitment to developing best of breed solutions for Microsoft platforms and whose approach to the market mirrors Sybari's."

"For years, CommVault has received industry recognition for our superior enterprise data management solutions," said Larry Cormier, vice president of marketing and business development of CommVault Systems. "With CommVault Galaxy and Sybari's Antigen products in place, Exchange and Sharepoint users can rest assured that their networks and mission-critical data are backed up and protected."

Sybari's Antigen software benefits include:

-- Simple -- "all-in-one", centralized, browser-based interface designed to
simplify management, training and installation, as well as provide a single,
streamlined view of global data resources. Galaxy Storage Policies let you
logically manage SAN, NAS & LAN data in complex enterprise networks.

-- Speedy -- high-performance, fast data restoration to business users at the
application level, including LAN-free, Server-free and Serverless data
protection schemes.

-- Seamless -- unified product; built from the ground up to seamlessly scale in
the most popular storage networking environments.

CommVault Galaxy software benefits include:

-- Simple -- "all-in-one", centralized, browser-based interface designed to
simplify management, training and installation, as well as provide a single,
streamlined view of global data resources. Galaxy Storage Policies let you
logically manage SAN, NAS & LAN data in complex enterprise networks.

-- Speedy -- high-performance, fast data restoration to business users at the
application level, including LAN-free, Server-free and Serverless data
protection schemes.

-- Seamless -- unified product; built from the ground up to seamlessly scale in
the most popular storage networking environments.

About CommVault Systems

CommVault Systems provides unified enterprise data management solutions to ensure high performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of complex storage networks. The company's singular focus is creating and implementing fast, reliable and easy-to-use solutions to meet customers' data management requirements. The company's software products seamlessly ensure the reliable, rapid restoration of files, business-critical applications and today's most popular databases. Information on CommVault is available on the World Wide Web at www.commvault.com or by calling 732/870-4000. CommVault's corporate headquarters is located in Oceanport, New Jersey in the United States.

ABOUT SYBARI

Since 1995, Sybari has the led the market in providing innovative solutions to groupware-based virus and security threats. Today, over 6 million Microsoft Exchange/Outlook and Lotus Domino/Notes seats are virus-free as a direct result of Sybari's Antigen technology. Sybari's Antigen is unsurpassed in providing protection of corporate messaging environments. Antigen's unique architecture institutes a preemptive line of defense from viruses and malicious code. Antigen for Microsoft Exchange and Antigen for Lotus Domino are distributed in more than 50 countries through Sybari's worldwide locations and distribution network. Sybari is headquartered in East Northport, New York with an EMEA headquarters in Madrid, Spain and additional offices in Singapore, Australia, Brazil and Mexico. Sybari's clients include Amazon.com, Compaq, Con Edison, Dell, Deloitte & Touche, Eastman Chemical, Getronics, JD Power, Lufthansa, Mayo Foundation, Merrill Lynch, Nortel, Pirelli, Reckitt Benckiser, Sony, Tosco, US Federal Government, and Visa. Sybari's many strategic partners include Lotus Development (NYSE:IBM), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Computer Associates (NYSE:CA), Compaq (NYSE:CPQ), Sophos, Inc., Network Associates, Inc. (NYSE: NET), and Norman Data Defense Systems (Oslo Bors: NOR).