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ARKIVIO® auto-stor Advances Lead in Lifecycle Management Solutions
Latest release delivers quick return for storage consolidation, disaster recovery, data retention, and tiered-storage

Orlando, Florida. :: October 28, 2003

Arkivio, Inc., a leading provider of Lifecycle Management solutions for electronic data and information, announced today at the Storage Networking World Conference that they are shipping the latest release of ARKIVIO® auto-stor software to their customers.

ARKIVIO® auto-stor remains the industry’s only Data and Information Lifecycle Management solution to use unique customer data and storage value scores to automate the prioritization and placement of data on the most appropriate storage resource. Supporting platforms based on the UNIX® and Windows® operating systems, the latest release includes innovative automated actions such as seamless migration, relocation, replication and deletion. A powerful policy simulator is also included allowing IT administrators to test the results of policy configurations before actually deploying them.

"The unique storage solutions we deliver to our customer base is the real value of ARKIVIO® auto-stor," notes Giovanni Paliska, president and CEO of Arkivio. "Our latest release raises the performance bar even further by helping our customers achieve both economic and operational benefits by consolidating disparate storage resources, reducing backup and recovery windows, complying with government regulations on data retention management, and reducing storage TCO with tiered-storage architectures."

"Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is as significant a business process as CRM and ERP because it solves key problems such as ineffective storage utilization, the costs of managing storage, and the ability to manage storage growth surrounding data replication, disaster recovery / business continuance and backup," adds Nancy Hurley, senior analyst for the Enterprise Storage Group. "IT departments considering an effective ILM implementation can significantly streamline costs and management efficiencies and products like ARKIVIO® auto-stor can help the enterprise to consolidate and optimize their utilization of resources while reducing the acquisition and management cost of storage over time."

ARKIVIO® auto-stor Solutions:

For more information on ARKIVIO® auto-stor and these different customer solutions, visit www.arkivio.com or stop by booth C13 at the Storage Networking World, Fall 2003 in Orlando, Florida.

About Arkivio

Arkivio, Inc., providing leading Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions for enterprise customers, offers software for data archiving and retention, regulatory compliance, storage consolidation, backup and recovery optimization, and capacity management across a tiered-storage infrastructure. The company’s ARKIVIO® AUTO-STOR software redefines storage management by enabling customers to profile the criticality of their data within its lifecycle in order to automate its discovery, classification and placement on the most appropriate storage resource across heterogeneous DAS/NAS/SAN environments without deploying agents - driving the cost per managed terabyte of storage to its lowest possible level, while providing significant ROI.

For more information on ARKIVIO® auto-stor and its customer solutions, contact Arkivio at: 2700 Garcia Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043; Phone (877) 275-0100; Fax (650) 237-9183.

ARKIVIO is a registered trademark of Arkivio, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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