Archivas Launches Comprehensive Solutions Partner Program; Announces Premier ISV Partners: iLumin and Princeton Softech; Archivas to Demonstrate Partner Solutions at Storage Decisions 2005 in booth #410.

NEW YORK and WALTHAM, Mass. -- Archivas(TM), Inc., the leading provider of fixed content archiving solutions, today launched a comprehensive Solutions Partner Program intended to help Archivas recruit and forge strong relationships with the leading independent software vendors (ISVs) in key strategic markets, in order to deliver completely integrated and targeted solutions to joint customers. Archivas also announced today the first two participants in the program: iLumin, the leading provider of information lifecycle management (ILM) solutions that turn email and electronic content into true corporate assets; and Princeton Softech, the market leader in enterprise data management.

Archivas and iLumin have joined together to offer customers an optimized solution for email archiving and mail storage management. The relationship will combine iLumin's Assentor Enterprise with Archivas Cluster (ArC). Assentor Enterprise is an off-the-shelf email management and archiving suite, providing the enterprise-level answer for records management, discovery, litigation support, compliance and supervision around electronic communications. The joint iLumin and Archivas solution will support Exchange, Notes, GroupWise and other popular email services, such as Bloomberg, as well as all corporate and consumer instant messaging (IM) products.

"By combining iLumin's Assentor solution with Archivas ArC, our enterprise customers will now be able to process millions of messages and archive hundreds of gigabytes of data per day in a highly available and high performance fashion. Moreover, customers will be able to preserve these files on an open, scalable, secure and highly available archive platform," said Mike Gundling, senior vice president of product management at iLumin. "This joint development supports and builds upon our established mission to deliver management solutions that lower total cost of ownership and maximize business value."

Archivas and Princeton Softech have joined together to offer customers an optimized solution for enterprise data management and database archiving through the combination of Princeton Softech solutions and Archivas Cluster (ArC). Princeton Softech provides enterprise solutions that align application data management with business objectives, enabling organizations to improve performance, mitigate risks and control costs. Through this joint partnership, companies can manage, retain and control mission critical data through every stage of the information lifecycle.

"The partnership between Princeton Softech and Archivas is a natural fit that brings together scalable, enterprise class solutions to meet customer demands for data management and long term retention with digital archiving," said James Sinisgalli, director, product line management for Princeton Softech. "The joint Princeton Softech and Archivas solution will support all leading enterprise databases including Oracle, Sybase, Informix, SQLServer and UDB/DB2, as well as more specialized applications including Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel and PeopleSoft. Together, we will provide customers with the ability to maximize application efficiencies, control costs and preserve archived application data in an open, scalable and highly available archive environment. We are delighted to make this announcement with Archivas and look forward to a long lasting and mutually beneficial relationship."

"We are seeing archival storage growing at an enormously rapid rate because customers are really embracing the value that it brings," said Tony Asaro, a senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). "Archival storage needs to be easy to manage and scale and there is a great deal of value with integrating the storage system with applications. ESG has found that E-mail archiving is the number one application used by customers for their archival storage and database archiving is quickly emerging as the next big application in this space. Archivas has one of the most impressive storage systems focused on active archiving. It's incredibly easy to manage, extremely scalable and reliable, has impressive performance and provides smart search functionality. These are excellent partnerships and the combination of Archivas, ILumin and Princeton Softech offers customers best-in-class solutions."

"In today's fast paced and highly competitive business arena, the most successful companies are forming strong partnerships to create a competitive advantage in the marketplace. To succeed, you must deliver applications to the market quickly and provide solutions that deliver relief for the most acute datacenter pain-points. But windows of opportunity close quickly, and development time is too precious to be wasted on reinventing technology," said Neil Colstad, vice president of business development at Archivas. "We have therefore identified what we believe to be the most prevalent datacenter challenges, such as email and database archiving, and sought best-of-breed ISV partners in each respective market, such as iLumin and Princeton Softech."

Continued Colstad, "This announcement serves as validation of the commitment Archivas has made to building a world-class Solutions Partner Program. This isn't just companies trading logos on Web sites. We are dedicating the manpower and resources necessary to ensure successful development and delivery of real solutions to the marketplace." He continued, "We are indeed proud to be able to announce, right off the bat, two of the most well-known and respected ISVs in their respective markets."

About the Archivas Solutions Partner Program

The Archivas Solutions Partner Program provides a comprehensive framework in which ISVs can join with Archivas to develop fixed content archiving solutions in order to beat the competition to market and generate dramatically increased revenues. It includes complete access to Archivas ArC technology for integration, testing and certification, as well as to Archivas technical resources, including Archivas' world-class lab and technical expertise. In addition, the program offers ISV partners joint marketing and lead generation opportunities, such as collateral development, tradeshow and event support and public relations activities. For additional information, please visit: [e-mail].

About Archivas Cluster (ArC)

The Archivas Cluster (ArC) is a digital archiving solution that stores, protects and manages fixed content. ArC enables users to have access to their archived data forever, even as content management applications and underlying hardware may change over time. Since ArC is hardware agnostic, it allows for the use of multiple brands of industry standard computer hardware in a single archive solution. In addition, ArC supports open, standard interfaces, thus appearing to applications or users as a file system, which many users are typically accustomed to working with. ArC delivers on the key attributes that any modern archive must provide, which includes the ability to easily and reliably ingest information, preserve information forever or as long as it is required, and provide easy access to the information over time.

ArC v1.5, announced on June 13, 2005, now delivers even greater levels of data ingestion and access performance, as well as unsurpassed search and indexing capabilities. ArC enables critical file contents search. This can provide important cost and time savings if, for example, a company is in a legal discovery process or if a doctor is attempting to recall a patient's medical history. Since ArC can store files that span multiple applications within the same archive, different file types relating to a single search can be found, which can be a very important consideration.

ArC is generally available and currently installed at customer sites across all major industry verticals. Current customers include the Cancer Therapy & Research Center, The New York Botanical Garden and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Archivas will be showing its Archivas Cluster (ArC) at Storage Decisions, September 28 - 30, 2005 at the Hilton New York, Manhattan, NY in booth #410.

About iLumin

iLumin is a leading provider of information lifecycle management (ILM) solutions that turn enterprise content into true corporate assets. iLumin's Assentor Enterprise is a powerful email and file system archiving and records management solution that maximizes the business value and lowers the total cost of ownership for these corporate repositories. Assentor Enterprise provides archiving, records management, storage management, electronic discovery, compliance and supervision solutions for the world's largest organizations.

About Princeton Softech

Princeton Softech (www.princetonsoftech.com), the market leader in database archiving, delivers comprehensive enterprise data management software solutions for the leading applications, databases, operating systems and hardware platforms. Princeton Softech's Active Archive(TM) Solutions enable companies to manage and store data, based on its business value, critical for information lifecycle management (ILM). Our Relational Tools(TM) provides test data management capabilities that improve application quality and reliability. Companies can maximize application performance and availability, while reducing their total cost of ownership. Princeton Softech's products are used by more than 2,200 of the world's largest companies across industries in more than 30 countries. Princeton Softech is financed by Apax Partners, Inc. and LLR Partners.

About Archivas

Based in Waltham, MA, Archivas, Inc. software lets customers store, protect and manage fixed-content data in the most cost-effective and operationally efficient online environment available on the market today. The Archivas Cluster (ArC(TM)) simultaneously addresses the need for immediate access to archive data while lowering the total cost of ownership. For additional information, please visit the company website at www.archivas.com, email [e-mail] or telephone [phone].

Archivas and ArC are trademarks of Archivas, Inc. All other brand and product names in this announcement may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.