LONDON, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- NParchive Embraces XAM to Offer Flexible Solution for Preserving and
Searching Historical Data on any Storage Platform

Clearpace, the data archive store specialist, http://www.clearpace.com is
launching an eXtensible Access Method (XAM) compliant version of its data
compression and storage product - NParchive. By adopting XAM, NParchive
enables partners who resell or embed the Clearpace technology to deliver
solutions that instantly archive structured data to XAM-based storage
platforms. NParchive v3.0 will be available to partners and end-user
organisations from 8th April 2009.

"XAM compliance makes NParchive a much more flexible data archive by
virtualising the underlying storage layer," says John Bantleman, CEO of
Clearpace. "It provides software vendors with a ready-made way to provide
their customers with highly compressed archive stores for structured data on
XAM compliant storage platforms. This enables our partners to significantly
reduce the cost of managing historical data for their customers while
providing a standard approach for preserving and searching information across
storage platforms."

NParchive provides data storage and management technology for the
long-term retention of inactive structured data. Data is compressed by 40:1,
while maintaining powerful SQL query capabilities and integrating with a
range of immutable storage to satisfy compliance requirements.

The ability to archive massive volumes of structured data while
maintaining full online access is critical to organisations in a variety of
industries across the globe. Telecoms operators, for example, need to capture
and retain billions of call data records under the EU Data Retention
Directive amounting to 10s of terabytes (TBs) of data that must be stored and
managed in a compliant fashion. Reducing the data storage footprint of this
data by at least 40x while minimising ongoing maintenance is hugely important
in terms of total cost of ownership.

"We've gone a step further in our XAM adoption by architecting the latest
version of NParchive to operate with all types of storage systems via XAM,
regardless of whether they are XAM conformant," adds John Bantleman. "By
providing Vendor Interface Modules (VIMs) for non-conformant XAM storage
systems, we've truly embraced the XAM initiative and standards. This enables
our partners to quickly and easily deliver data retention solutions to their
customers across a variety of storage platforms, including NAS, SAN, CAS and
cloud storage, using a single interface."

"SNIA's open standards for storage and data management benefit both
vendors and end-user organizations for interoperability and investment
protection. The XAM standard is ideally suited for applications dealing with
industry data regulations and compliance, cloud computing and large scale
data preservation projects," said Wayne M. Adams, Chair of the SNIA. "We are
in the midst of the industry movement for companies such as Clearpace to
implement the XAM interface to deliver long-term information retention
solutions while ensuring data security, data immutability, and storage
platform transparency."

About Clearpace

Clearpace Software Ltd is a software company that provides data archive
store solutions for the long-term retention of structured data within the
enterprise. Clearpace has become a pioneer in the database archiving market
by providing archive stores that are the optimal destination for inactive
data that has been removed from production systems. The Clearpace NParchive
software enables organisations with large and growing data estates to
massively reduce the cost and complexity of storing historical information
while making archived data easily accessible for regulatory, legal and
business purposes. Using NParchive, companies are able to store as much as
60x more historical information on commodity hardware. Clearpace serves a
variety of industries, including Financial Services, Telecommunications,
Energy, Utilities, Pharmaceuticals, Retail and the Public Sector.

For more information visit http://www.clearpace.com

LONDON, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

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