Autonomy top position bolstered with status of Leader in message archiving software by Forrester, recent acquisition of Iron Mountain Digital

Johannesburg, 04 Jul 2011

Autonomy Corporation, a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, was recently named a Leader in the March 2011 report by Forrester Research, titled: "The Forrester Wave Message Archiving Software, Q1 2011".

Autonomy scored the highest in the Current Offering category, which includes message capture, range of content types supported, message management, supervision, scalability, security and deployment flexibility, as well as in the Vision and Product Strategy and Services categories.

The Forrester Wave profile on Autonomy states:

"Autonomy Consolidated Archive offers the most complete product evaluated and it receives top marks for message capture, range of content types supported, message management, and supervision functionality. The vendor's rich set of deployment models and depth of integrated eDiscovery functionality contribute to Autonomy's leadership position.

"Autonomy's strong set of flexible message archiving offerings and first-class legal risk mitigation support contribute to its leadership position.”

"The tremendous success of Autonomy's Consolidated Archive is the result of our unique vision for a next-generation archiving solution. We are very pleased with the high scores we received in the Message Archiving Wave report," says Mike Sullivan, CEO of Autonomy Protect. "Only Autonomy can automatically apply governance policies by understanding the meaning of all types of human friendly information, including audio, video and social media content. With Autonomy Consolidated Archive as the anchoring technology, organisations can drive their critical compliance, eDiscovery, and Records Management initiatives directly from the archive, and make the data available via an on-premise, cloud-based, hybrid, or appliance-based approach."

Autonomy also recently acquired Iron Mountain's digital division, including archiving, eDiscovery and online backup.

Says Chris Hathaway, Director at Soarsoft, a distributor of Autonomy solutions: “These developments bolster the strength of the Autonomy brand, providing local companies with confidence in the company and the technology it delivers. This will also further increase their market share and dominance of this market.”

Please visit http://www.autonomy.com/forresterarchivingwave for more information.

Soarsoft Africa

Soarsoft Africa has specialised in archive, migration and messaging services for over a decade, leveraging the experience gained from some of the largest and most complex implementations around the world to deliver cost-effective and successful projects and solutions. Soarsoft Africa remains product independent, but supports and implements what it considers to be trusted and proven solutions to meet specific customer requirements.

Soarsoft Africa continues to evaluate its offerings to ensure they maintain market and technological leadership positions, so that clients are offered the very best advice when assessing products and solutions that will match their requirements.

Soarsoft Africa has offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town South Africa.

Autonomy

Autonomy Corporation (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, spearheads the Meaning Based Computing movement. IDC recently recognised Autonomy as having the largest market share and fastest growth in the worldwide search and discovery market. Autonomy's technology allows computers to harness the full richness of human information, forming a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data, including unstructured information, such as text, e-mail, Web pages, voice, or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications, including pan-enterprise search, customer interaction solutions, information governance, end-to-end eDiscovery, records management, archiving, business process management, Web content management, Web optimisation, rich media management and video and audio analysis.

Autonomy's customer base comprises more than 25 000 global companies, law firms and federal agencies, including: AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Deutsche Bank, DLA Piper, Ericsson, FedEx, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyds Banking Group, NASA, Nestl'e, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, Tesco, T-Mobile, the US Department of Energy, the US Department of Homeland Security and the US Securities and Exchange Commission. More than 400 companies OEM Autonomy technology, including Symantec, Citrix, HP, Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO. The company has offices worldwide. Please visit http://www.autonomy.com to find out more.

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