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International Journal of Micrographics & Optical Technology, 2008

New Benchmark for Managing World's Largest Data Archive ...

Autonomy Corporation has announced that its on-demand archival solution has reached "a new data processing benchmark", maintaining its position of managing the world's largest data archive. The Digital Safe solution is said to be securely managing 7.1 petabytes of e-mail, documents and multimedia data on 6,000 servers. The solution archives three million files per hour.

Digital Safe is powered by Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), which is designed to ingest, de-duplicate, index and extract metadata from the files. This prepares the data for compliance audits and eDiscovery for litigation. Each month, an average of 4,000 FRCP compliant audit and eDiscovery searches are conducted, resulting in the production of over eight terabytes of data. This litigation-ready content flows seamlessly into the Autonomy hosted eDiscovery Services environment or is returned to the client.

"With the volume of litigation and regulations increasing, companies are looking for a way to unify all of their communications into a repository to make it easy to search and find information that relates to potential issues," said Mike Sullivan, CEO of Autonomy Zantaz. "Autonomy helps companies to reduce their costs of eDiscovery and comply with emerging regulations. That's why 14 out of the top 20 financial institutions rely on Digital Safe as their choice for managed archiving."

Autonomy Digital Safe is described as a massively scalable, hosted archive service that enables customers to outsource the storage and management of their email messages, rich-media files, instant messages (IMs), unified communications content and content from over 400 repositories to a trusted, proven third-party. The service helps organizations to eliminate the burden of acquiring, implementing and managing local compliance grade storage, including the time and cost associated with backups, administration, software upgrades and technical support. The Autonomy solution requires no onsite hardware and is said to be completely transparent to end-users. Customers' data is stored in two geographically dispersed, ultra-secure, SAS 70-compliant data centers, ensuring extra protection and Continuity of Business (COB) in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. Digital Safe is designed for the complex and changing requirements of regulated industries. It is claimed to be "proven compliant" with all major compliance standards, including SEC 17a-4, FINRA 3010/342,FSACOBS 1 1 .8, and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP).

Autonomy's Audit Services team for Digital Safe is available 24/7 to help companies respond in the most rapid, cost-effective manner possible. The team provides proven expertise in all phases of an audit or eDiscovery event. The team's expertise and best practices methodology are designed to ensure the accuracy and completeness of results. Those results have been used with confidence in thousands of regulatory and legal matters.

Contact Autonomy. Web: www.autonomy.com/digitalsafe

... and At the Cutting Edge of New Multi-Trillion Dollar Sector

Autonomy also says that its vision of searching and analyzing structured and unstructured data has now been validated as the next big thing in business IT. According to an interview with Business Spectator, Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President, Gartner Research, predicted that the next quantum leap in productivity will come from the use of IT systems that analyze structured and unstructured data.

Sondergaard reportedly said that Autonomy is "at the cutting edge" of the new search technology, a sector in the IT industry that will ultimately earn "multi trillion dollar" revenues.

Founded in 1996 out of pioneering research at Cambridge University, Autonomy says its unique technology can understand the meaning of all structured, semi-structured and unstructured information. By identifying patterns between distinct pieces of information including email, business applications, voice and video, Autonomy's technology extracts the content's digital essence, encodes the unique 'signature' of the concepts, and enables operations to be automatically performed.

Contact Autonomy.

Web: www.autonomy.com/ enterprise-search

BBH Receives Highest Possible Rating for ADF 2.0

Bowe Bell & Howell (BBH) and its flagship Bowe One software suite have been recognized by the Gartner Group with a "Strong Positive" rating in the recently published MarketScope for Automated Document Factory 2.0 report.. 1 The Gartner report evaluates 18 companies based on market understanding, offering strategy, vertical/industry strategy, geographic strategy, product, market responsiveness and track record.

"We are very pleased that Gartner recognized us with its highest rating and we believe this means Gartner views the modular and scaleable Bowe One as a comprehensive product suite that is aligned with market demand," said Mike Maselli, executive director of BBH's Software Business Solutions.