Archivas and Nissho Electronics Sign Strategic Agreement; Extends Archivas' International Reach - Allows Nissho to Offer World's Leading Content Aware Storage (CAS) Solution to Customers in Japan.

WALTHAM, Mass. and TOKYO -- Archivas(TM), Inc., the leading provider of fixed content archiving solutions, and Tokyo-based Nissho Electronics Corporation, today announced that they have signed a strategic reselling agreement that will allow Nissho Electronics to offer the Archivas Cluster (ArC(TM)) software, the world's leading open content aware storage (CAS) solution, to its customers. Under terms of the agreement, Nissho will dedicate specific personnel and resources solely to the marketing, sales, integration and service support of Archivas ArC software in Japan.

Nissho Electronics is a veteran distributor and integrator. With over 30 years of experience introducing North American products to Japan, Nissho has the technical expertise (about half of its 800 member workforce are engineers), nationwide coverage, business acumen and strong relationships with key customers in the telecommunications, manufacturing, commercial and financial industries of Japan to sell and support a wide range of the leading information technology products, such as Archivas ArC.

"After an extensive review of the technologies available today, Archivas ArC emerged as the logical, and perhaps only, solution with the features and functionality necessary to meet the stringent digital archiving requirements of our customers in Japan," said Kojiro Koike, general manager, Business Planning & Development Division of Financial Institutions and BPM Business Unit, Nissho Electronics. "We have therefore already made a significant product commitment, as well as dedicated and trained personnel that will be exclusively devoted to the success of the Archivas ArC product line in Japan." Koike added, "The addition of Archivas ArC technology to our product offerings underscores our commitment to be a market leader. We look forward to a long lasting and mutually beneficial relationship."

"We are delighted and honored to name Nissho Electronics as an Archivas ArC master reseller in Japan," said Gary Voight, president and CEO of Archivas. "Nissho customers will now be able to reap the full benefit of the only truly open digital archive on the market today, which also delivers the highest levels of data ingestion and access performance, as well as integrated search and indexing capabilities. Both domestically, as well as in Japan, these capabilities are critical for companies that wish to meet internal corporate governance mandates, as well as external regulations, such as Japan's J-SOX, which is currently being prepared by the Japanese government for legislation, much like Sarbanes Oxley regulations present here in the United States today."

Voight added, "We believe the addition of Archivas ArC technology to the Nissho Electronics product portfolio will allow them to deepen their penetration into existing accounts, as well as open new doors of opportunity to them. Bottom line, it will help them to dramatically grow market share and increase profits."

About Archivas Cluster (ArC)

The Archivas Cluster (ArC) is an open standards-based 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. In addition, ArC can store content in standard formats as well, such as XML or HTML, so that files can be read and accessed over time as applications may change. 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.

With the most recent release, ArC now delivers even greater levels of data ingestion and access performance, as well as integrated search and indexing capabilities. ArC enables critical file contents search, which competing products do not provide. 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 Maimonides Medical Center, the Whitehead Institute-MIT Computational and Systems Biology Initiative (CSBi), the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC), The New York Botanical Garden and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

About Nissho Electronics Corporation

Since its foundation in 1969, Nissho Electronics has brought the world's most advanced technologies to an ever-widening segment of the Japanese market. Headquartered in Tokyo, the company has annual revenues surpassing $500 million. The company provides clients with practical technical solutions, extensive experience and expertise that are based on the strong bonds it has developed with its customers and with cutting edge companies. Acting as a strategic partner, Nissho focus its resources on meeting the needs of its clients. Additional information can be obtained at: http://www.nissho-ele.co.jp/eHP/e-index.html.

About Archivas

Based in Waltham, MA, Archivas, Inc. software lets customers store, protect and manage fixed-content data in the most open and operationally efficient online environment available on the market today, in order to meet both internal governance, as well as external compliance regulations. The Archivas Cluster (ArC) simultaneously addresses the need for immediate access to archive data while lowering the total cost of ownership. For additional information on Archivas, a proud sponsor of the CAS Community (www.cascommunity.org), please visit the Archivas Web site 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.