KVS Unveils Unlimited High Available Email Solution for Microsoft Exchange Integrated with EMC Symmetrix Software

Business Wire, Feb 20, 2002

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2002

KVS Support of EMC's E-Infostructure(TM) Developers Program Yields

Disaster Recovery Options for Exchange Users

Email management specialist KVS Inc. today announced availability of the market's first 24x7 enterprise email management solution offering global, high available email archiving for Microsoft Exchange with EMC Corporation's (NYSE: EMC) information storage software. Through integration with EMC application programming interfaces (APIs) as part of EMC's E-Infostructure(TM) Developers Program (EIDP), KVS flagship email management product Enterprise Vault transparently integrates with EMC Symmetrix(R) Enterprise Storage software providing highly-available storage and hands-off management of email and attachments.

As the first enterprise email disaster recovery solution integrated with EMC, KVS Enterprise Vault automatically employs both EMC TimeFinder(TM) and Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF(TM)) business continuity software solutions. Customers utilizing this seamless approach are able to effectively manage, retain and protect messaging archives through a highly available and fully automated solution.

System and storage administrators face enormous obstacles as the volume and size of corporate email continues to surge. As companies continue to use email systems as a corporate knowledge base, mailbox quotas and message size restrictions have proven inadequate and the need to not only store but also instantly access long-term information has dramatically increased.

"Losing email and losing access to email hurts business and costs money. It's that simple," said Mary Kay Roberto, Vice President of North American Operations, KVS Inc. "Our integration with Symmetrix information storage and software is a natural extension of Enterprise Vault and provides increased functionality to relieve the strain on system administrators by managing storage automatically as well as offering added unprecedented protection options for disaster recovery."

When used in tandem with EMC Symmetrix and SRDF, Enterprise Vault becomes the first enterprise email management system to provide integrated disaster recovery capabilities. SRDF allows a mirror Enterprise Vault system to be maintained at a second disaster safe location with a duplicate Symmetrix information storage system. In the case of a disaster, a script is run allowing the mirror Vault to take over for the primary system and bring the archived data back on-line in a minimal amount of time.

Using EMC TimeFinder with Enterprise Vault accelerates the backup process of archived information to Symmetrix and enables the Vault to spend more time archiving data, thereby supporting more users per system.

"The integration KVS completed through our developers program will help mutual customers protect and leverage business-critical data in corporate email systems. Customers implementing this integrated solution will help reduce their vulnerability to losing vital corporate knowledge and increase their ability to better manage information," said Linda Wright, Senior Director of EMC's E-Infostructure Developers Program.

EMC's developers program provides wide-scale access to EMC APIs, which are software paths into EMC Enterprise Storage systems and software. The program enables independent software developers such as KVS to select from, and rapidly integrate, a large variety of information management, sharing and protection tools.

Benefits of the integration between KVS Enterprise Vault and EMC TimeFinder and SRDF include:

-- Integrated, fully automated 100% available solution for automated Enterprise
Vault backup/restore.

-- Scalable information storage and transparent management of archived Exchange
email and attachments.

-- Timeless storage of high-availability intellectual unstructured company
information assets.

-- Continuous 24x7 Enterprise Vault management and operation via SRDF disaster
recovery.

-- Automated space management of Vault components (data, indexes, SQL & MSMQ).

About KVS Inc. and Enterprise Vault

KVS specializes in Information Management. Its flagship product, Enterprise Vault, is the only enterprise-scale email management system to deliver the ability for all users to search and retrieve archived Microsoft Exchange data from their desktops. It's also the only product to provide optional journaling facilities for capture and save of all messages passing through Microsoft Exchange to meet corporate audit or regulatory purposes. Enterprise Vault performs complete lifecycle management for items in Microsoft Exchange with support soon available for additional information repositories. Microsoft Exchange is estimated to have some 100 million users by the end of 2001 and is the fastest growing messaging product. Some 70% of those users are in organizations with more than 500 users, which compose the KVS target market. An international software company with offices in the UK, US, France, Germany, and Australia, KVS plans to become a world leader in the market for managing knowledge held in the form of unstructured information. Further details can be found at www.kvsinc.com. KVS U.S. Phone: 1-877-358-2858.