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OVERTONE SOFTWARE, INC. ANNOUNCES MANAGE TONE 2004™ FOR INFORMATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY

BETHESDA, Maryland --- February 15, 2004. Responding to the growth of the emerging Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) industry, Overtone Software, Inc., leading developer of data lifecycle management solutions, today announced the release of ManageTone 2004™ Lifecycle Suite, an intelligent data movement software package for medium to large environments, designed to position data across the enterprise based on value to organization, and to lower total cost of data ownership (TCO)

Mark Anderson, Executive Vice President, Overtone Software, explained the industry's origins industry and how the company initiated the new series of software tools. "Storage capacity requirements across all sectors continue to expand. Add to this equation the compliance with federal regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley and HIPAA, and IT departments of organizations must seek out more cost effective and creative solutions," explained Mr. Anderson.

"Growing data volumes and regulatory compliance prompt a re-evaluation of enterprise data management strategy. Increasingly, intelligent movement of data to the storage platform that most closely matches targeted cost and ensures compliance," he added.

Mr. Anderson added that ManageTone2004™ performs across all platforms, making it an attractive option for companies which have invested in a cross section of operating platforms.

ManageTone 2004™ Lifecycle Suite provides a high-performance, low-overhead solution for intelligently moving fixed or inactive data off Windows, UNIX, and Data ONTAP platforms to inexpensive secondary and tertiary storage, while allowing the data to appear as if still residing in the primary volume.

By working within the operating system, ManageTone 2004™ Lifecycle Suite avoids overhead that slows down many archiving solutions. By using existing file system structures, ManageTone 2004™ minimizes personnel overhead and ensures retrieval of legacy data. This translates into savings that allows many data centers to recoup their ILM and nearline storage investments in a matter of months, and move their additional storage purchases into a lower cost bracket.

Overtone Software, Inc., was founded in 1998 by a group of storage-experienced engineers and entrepreneurs on the vision that converging of data growth rates and regulatory compliance requirements would redraw storage paradigms and require new solution sets --such as data lifecycle management, report and search tools, and database archiving --- and to provide enterprise computing environments with "finishing touch" software products for best-of-breed solutions. Overtone Software is headquartered in Bethesda, MD. For more information, please visit the website (www.overtonesoftware.com). Contact: Arlyn Stokes
Overtone Software
(301) 280-5902
astokes@otsw.com

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