CommVault Systems' Vault98 Wins Editors' Choice Award From Leading Lotus Notes Publication.

OCEANPORT, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 1999--

-- Highly Respected Notes/Domino Publication Cites

CommVault as the Industry's Leading Storage

Management Solution for Notes Applications --

CommVault Systems, Inc. (R), a leading provider of world class, enterprise-wide storage management solutions, today announced that its Vault98 solution for Lotus Notes received the prestigious Editors' Choice Award from Lotus Notes & Domino Advisor magazine. The award will be formally presented to CommVault in conjunction with Advisor DevCon on Lotus Domino, Notes and Java, an event hosted in Tucson, Arizona by the magazine's publisher, Advisor Media.

A team of technical editors from Lotus Notes & Domino Advisor - the only monthly magazine serving the Notes industry - selected CommVault Systems after searching the Lotusphere99 tradeshow floor for the most useful and innovative Notes/Domino third-party products. Based on Vault98's granular and robust storage management software solutions, CommVault is quickly gaining mass acceptance as the premier, storage management solution for Lotus Notes and Domino environments.

CommVault's Vault98 software won the Silver award in the Administration Tools category. According to the technical editors from Lotus Notes & Domino Advisor magazine: "CommVault's Vault98 software can be of great value to an organization wishing to maximize the productivity of its people. Its fast, granular restore capabilities coupled with its ability to recover Notes databases to alternative hardware make it the premier storage solution for Notes/Domino environments."

"This award is yet another independent confirmation that Vault98 is the industry's number one IT administration solution for effectively managing the storage needs of Notes/Domino applications," said Larry Cormier, vice president of marketing and business development of CommVault Systems. "We are particularly pleased to be recognized by a publication with such high technical standards. What's more, this recognition is a validation that we are successfully delivering on our initiative to provide organizations with the most powerful, complete and centralized Windows NT storage solutions available."

Recognizing that Lotus Notes has become an integral component of many organizations' competitive success, CommVault expanded its Application Integrated backup and recovery solution to ensure enterprise class data protection for that environment. Unlike its competitors, CommVault's storage management solutions can backup and restore an individual document to any Notes database, offer content-based browsing of documents, and provide parallel data streams to maximize performance. CommVault for Lotus Notes software will be extended to provide the same enhanced storage granularity and flexibility for Lotus Notes/Domino R5 as soon as it becomes generally available.

Customer Confirms CommVault's Industry-leading Solution

"We chose CommVault because it provides unparalleled security for our Lotus Notes environment and allows us to recover individual documents quickly to wherever they are needed," said Tim Baranowski, senior technical support for strategic systems & technology with NEC Technologies. "CommVault is the only storage management software vendor that delivers the features, performance and total support to meet our current needs today and as our enterprise grows in the future."

CommVault's solutions provide full administrative capabilities for all Lotus Notes Servers and databases from any properly configured NT machine.

Benefits also include:

--Parallel data streams for backup and recovery of single Notes database provide maximum performance to meet time-sensitive windows.

--Content based browsing is performed via pre-selected views.

--On-line backup or partial recovery saves time and reduces administrative workload.

--Recovery of individual documents to new or different Notes databases.

--Ability to restore the Notes 'Design'.

--Address book is backed up on-line with full support for Notes mail.

--Solution offers customers 24X7 access to their servers.

As server implementations continue to grow in size and complexity, companies are turning to storage solutions that successfully manage large file servers, databases and multiple applications in a variety of environments. A centralized storage management application is essential for uniting all associated data from these sources into one heterogeneous environment. As a leading provider of storage management solutions for enterprise open systems, CommVault offers the industry's most comprehensive, fully integrated suite of storage management software products. These solutions are tightly integrated with all storage management functions providing users with file system and database backup and recovery, disaster recovery, hierarchical storage management, archiving, and data migration.

About CommVault Systems

CommVault Systems is a leader in providing world-class, enterprise-wide storage management solutions for client/server environments. CommVault offers a complete application integrated suite of network-aware products that seamlessly ensure the reliable, rapid restoration of files, network file systems, applications, and today's most popular databases. Information on CommVault is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.commvault.com or call [phone]. CommVault's corporate headquarters is located in Oceanport, New Jersey in the United States.

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