Accellion Empowers Lotus Notes/Domino Messaging Infrastructures with High-Speed, Large File Transfer and Management Capabilities

Business Wire, Jan 16, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2003

New Technology to Help Distributed Enterprises Centralize File

Transfer Methods into Email and Significantly Reduce Reliance

and Cost Associated with Traditional Courier Methods

Accellion, Inc., the leading provider of applications for distributed file systems, announced today the availability of ADAMS -- the Accellion Distributed Attachment Management System for Notes(R)/Domino(R) based messaging infrastructures. ADAMS is an application that enables a seamless, enterprise-wide solution for transferring, distributing and managing large files via Lotus Notes-email. The new software also delivers powerful utilities for securely managing email attachment lifecycles including: automation, access, transfer, distribution and storage.

As the size of digital media assets and files continue to increase, problems are emerging as global enterprises are trying to maintain their competitive advantage. The need for accelerated collaboration between distributed groups is being hampered by severely taxed messaging infrastructures that are not designed to handle the multitude of information that traverses fixed-bandwidth networks in the form of email attachments.

ADAMS is the first application that effectively solves for these problems. It is integrated into the existing email application environment, but it removes attachments from the constricted flow of fixed-bandwidth networks and intelligently manages the rules by which they are distributed, transferred, replicated and stored. This process optimizes and accelerates the delivery and receipt of large files while reducing overall network impact.

Nihkil Jhingan, CTO and Co-founder of Accellion stated, "Accellion's SeOS technology is geared towards solving file management, transfer and storage problems for enterprises. ADAMS is an enterprise solution built on the SeOS platform, which empowers end users to transfer files swiftly and securely as email file attachments. It also offloads the attachment-processing burden from enterprise messaging infrastructures. ADAMS really is file transfer done right via email."

Warren J. Kaplan, President and CEO of Accellion added, "Companies are demanding technologies that enable them to reduce costs while improving global operational efficiencies. ADAMS was specifically developed to accelerate production and collaboration cycles, and reduce shipping costs and reliance on traditional courier methods. The true value of the ADAMS product is that it enables high-speed digital delivery that can be likened to deploying a 'digital FedEx' system throughout an enterprise."

ADAMS for Lotus Notes/Domino Infrastructures is available immediately.

About Accellion, Inc.

Accellion delivers secure, automated distributed file management applications for enterprises. With the Accellion Distributed Attachment Management System (ADAMS) and Backup & Recovery Services (BRS), customers can quickly and easily streamline their file delivery and lifecycle management process-and measurably improve the economics and performance of managing data across their fixed-bandwidth networks. Both applications leverage the Accellion SeOS(TM) as the underlying platform. The SeOS is a general-purpose building block for creating distributed file storage and transmission infrastructure for enterprise applications. SeOS unifies and manages multiple storage types, across geographically dispersed locations, using a range of transport and delivery protocols. The Accellion EdgeManager is a web based management tool which enables centralized administration, automation and file-level storage and bandwidth reporting.

For more information about Accellion please visit www.accellion.com.