AT&T Teams Up with Aegis Star to Unveil Breakthrough Storage and Retrieval System for Network Users; -- AT&T Easy Archiving Employs Fastest Document Retrieval Technology for Value-Added Networks --.

PARSIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 1995--AT&T and Aegis Star Corporation today announced AT&T Easy Archiving(SM), a breakthrough storage and retrieval service for E-mail and electronic data interchange (EDI). Powered by the global messaging capabilities of AT&T EasyLink Services, AT&T Easy Archiving is the only service that:

- employs a unique indexing system that accesses documents within a database regardless of size in approximately 15 seconds.

- meets the most recent government regulations(a) on archiving that designated industries must comply with.

- eliminates the major capital investment traditionally incurred in the purchase and upkeep of high-capacity storage and retrieval systems.

Aegis Star Corp., a leader in high-capacity, high-speed storage and retrieval, is offering AT&T Easy Archiving exclusively in conjunction with AT&T. AT&T Easy Archiving will use Aegis Star's patent-pending technology to deliver the highest speed retrieval in the industry and secure and cost-efficient storage for meeting legal requirements.

AT&T Easy Archiving is designed to meet the rapidly-growing storage and retrieval needs of electronic mail and EDI traffic. AT&T Easy Archiving will be particularly useful in manufacturing, healthcare and transportation industries and for legal, financial and government institutions required by law to store non-tamperable documents in third-party systems for a designated period of time. AT&T Easy Archiving uses write-once, read-many (WORM) optical disks that cannot be manipulated. Aegis Star will provide customers with triple backup on WORM disks.

With Easy Archiving, AT&T Mail and AT&T EDI customers can simultaneously send and store any document by simply adding the Aegis e-mail address to the message. To retrieve a document, customers can choose a variety of key field identifiers that trigger high-speed search capabilities within the Aegis Star database.

"There is a growing realization that back-up storage is critical to today's computing environment," said Kathleen Earley, vice president of AT&T's Business Multimedia Group Services. "The result is a proliferation of systems that have no standards and that are providing short-term solutions for high-capacity storage today. AT&T Easy Archiving offers users the advantages of unlimited long-term storage capacity, cost efficiency and quick delivery within a matter of hours." Earley noted that the normal wait time to receive either hard copy or electronic documents that have been stored in warehouses, on microfilm or in large databases often takes days, if not weeks.

Aegis Star's technology captures very large volumes of electronic transactions, creates index fields and stores the information on WORM disks off-site as it is being transmitted over AT&T's EasyLink network. A storage code uniquely identifies the document's originating company, along with a date and time stamp, and up to seven identifiers.

"AT&T Easy Archiving is as easy to use as an ATM," said Bill Bankert, president of Aegis Star. "And, customers save money and time. They don't have to worry about transferring files to a new system due to obsolete hardware and software because transport is completely network-based and capacity is unlimited."

Aegis Star Corporation, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, was founded in 1994 to provide a proprietary electronic data capture, storage and retrieval archival service not currently available on the marketplace. The company employs 32 personnel, many of whom have expertise in software engineering, specifically in information storage and retrieval technology and services and in media and database design.

AT&T is the world's networking leader, providing communications services and products, as well as network equipment and computer systems, to businesses, consumers, telecommunications service providers and government agencies. The company's AT&T EasyLink Services offerings include electronic mail, enhanced fax, electronic data interchange, public information services and telex, with connections to more than 160 countries.

(a): Government regulation codes issued: UCC4a; IRS Section 6001, Rev,91-59; National Archives and Records Administration

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Bill Bankert -- Aegis Star

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