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OVERTONE SOFTWARE’S MANAGETONE FOR MS EXCHANGE REDUCES EMAIL ARCHIVING & COMPLIANCE TCO UP TO 50%

BETHESDA, Maryland -- February 1, 2005. Overtone Software today announced the upcoming release of its email archiving and lifecycle solution, ManageToneä for MS Exchange 2.0, a flexible, high performance archiving and information lifecycle solution for Microsoft messaging environments.

According to Overtone Software’s Executive Vice President Mark Anderson, ManageToneä for MS Exchange reduces overloaded mailboxes, and assures compliance without the overhead costs typically associated with enterprise email archiving solutions. “Traditional approaches to email archiving typically add as much as 50% to the TCO when additional hardware, licenses, maintenance, and administrative costs are factored in. Overtone Software eliminates this overhead while assuring capture and archival of all messages at point and instant of entry.”

Overtone Software has further driven out cost by introducing DOT™ technology to eliminate the application database server requirement. “Most archiving solutions in the market today must host their applications using a central or a distributed database, which keeps tabs on all migrated email in a proprietary database, “Anderson explains. “Lose your management database, and you have lost the ability to get your data back. DOT™ technology does away with all that--- along with the maintenance, backup, rebuilding and re-synching of databases that go with having a single point of failure.”

ManageTone for MS Exchange provides unprecedented backend flexibility by writing records in open industry-standard formats to multiple targets, and by allowing swap and replace of multiple search engines. “IT managers don’t want their data held hostage to anyone’s proprietary formats and legacy applications,” Anderson continues. “We’ve answered the call by future-proofing our architecture from the ground up.”

The result is a real-time, email archive solution that uses current infrastructure and platforms to achieve compliance with government (HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC, DoD 5015) and corporate standards, without degradation to messaging performance. With support for industry-leading content-assurance platforms such as Network Appliance Nearstore® and EMC Centera™, as well as tape libraries, plus integration to its popular ManageTone Lifecycle Suite for Windows®, UNIX, and Data ONTAP™ file systems, Overtone Software completes the industry’s first end-to-end, universally searchable data lifecycle solution for multi-site enterprises.

ManageTone for MS Exchange is available directly from Overtone Software and through its value-added resellers and partners. Overtone Software, Inc. is a leading provider of flexible, scalable, information lifecycle management software solutions for heterogeneous environments. Overtone Software products are designed to move data intelligently between storage platforms, maximize application performance, minimize TCO, and slow the cycle of replacement investment. For more information, please visit the company website at www.overtonesoftware.com.

Contact: Arlyn Stokes
Overtone Software
(301) 280-5902
astokes@otsw.com

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