Archivas Cluster (ArC) Software to Be Featured at MIT CSBi Symposium - "Discovery, Design, and Development of Human Drugs and Therapeutics".

ArC Delivers Unparalleled Ability to Help Pharmaceutical Corporations, Biotechnology Companies, and Academic Institutions to Efficiently, Safely, and Cost Effectively Preserve, Manage, and Retrieve Scientific Data and Images

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Archivas[R], Inc., the leading provider of digital archiving solutions, today announced that its Archivas Cluster[TM] (ArC[TM]) software will be among the technologies featured at this year's Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Annual Computational and Systems Biology Initiative (CSBi) Symposium, taking place Wednesday, January 31, 2007 in the MIT Kresge Auditorium (W16), Cambridge Massachusetts.

This year's event, entitled "Discovery, Design, and Development of Human Drugs and Therapeutics" will address the research that leads to the development of small molecule drugs and protein therapeutics. The Archivas ArC demonstration will highlight how it plays a vital role in the research process by providing secure, long-term preservation of experimental results and other irreplaceable point-in-time data, and facilitates their retrieval with guaranteed authenticity.

Said Al Davis, systems manager with the CSBi & WI/MIT BioImaging Center and an Archivas customer since 2005, "Archivas ArC's ability to securely store our research data and associated images, as well as allow our research scientists to instantly find and retrieve them when necessary has been an invaluable contribution to our research programs." He continued, "I am delighted that Archivas can join us once again at this year's Symposium."

"We are honored that we have been invited back to participate at this year's MIT CSBi Symposium. We welcome the exceptional opportunity it offers us to meet with many leading scientists, doctors, and educators from around the world, and to discuss with them the work we have done at CSBi - of which we are extremely proud, as well as to learn more about their unique, long-term data preservation challenges," said Jeff Spotts, vice president of marketing for Archivas. "We look forward to the chance to talk with them about how Archivas ArC can provide them with a powerful combination of archival storage and search technologies that deliver instant access to all of their data to support their drug discovery, systems biology, and other research initiatives."

For additional information on this year's MIT CSBi Symposium, please visit http://csbi.mit.edu/events/annualsymposium/2007.

About Archivas Cluster (ArC)

ArC software is a comprehensive preservation, compliance, and discovery platform for fixed content. It offers an enterprise-class storage repository with a single, global namespace, file-level retention, and other active, object-based policies. In addition, ArC is searchable by both metadata and content. ArC runs on standard data center servers and supports JBOD, RAID or SAN-based storage, providing customers with unprecedented deployment flexibility. Customers can avoid the proprietary lock-in of competing products because of ArC's POSIX-compliant file system, standard file formats, and accessibility through open data protocols such as CIFS, NFS, HTTP, and WebDAV.

About Archivas

Based in Waltham, MA, Archivas, Inc. software lets customers store, protect, and manage fixed-content data, such as document, email, database, image, and audio files, in the most open and operationally efficient online environment available on the market today in order to meet corporate governance, legal discovery, and compliance regulations. Archivas Cluster (ArC) simultaneously addresses the needs for immediate access to archive data and a lower total cost of ownership. For further information on Archivas, a proud sponsor of the CAS Community (www.cascommunity.org), please visit www.archivas.com, email [e-mail], or telephone [phone].

[c] 2007 Archivas, Inc. Archivas is a registered trademark and Archivas Cluster and ArC are trademarks of Archivas, Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, and service marks appearing in this announcement are the property of their respective owners.