LONDON, July 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Integration With NParchive Allows Structured Data to be Preserved and 
Queried Directly on EMC Centera

Clearpace, the data archive store specialist,
http://www.clearpace.com today announced it has completed integration between
NParchive and EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS). EMC Centera is the
world's most simple, affordable and secure repository for information
archiving. It is a purpose-built, software-driven storage platform that
provides a myriad of new capabilities for unlocking the business value from
unchanging or infrequently changing digital assets such as historical data
from application databases.

NParchive is a purpose built software repository for
structured or semi-structured data which has been integrated with EMC
Centera. This integration means that the NParchive repository can sit
seamlessly on Centera. Typical data sets would be from any packaged or custom
database application (Oracle, DB2, Peoplesoft ++) and use cases could be
application retirement or archiving of aged data amongst others.

The integration of NParchive with Centera allows inactive
relational data from any database or log file to be stored on the Centera
storage platform while preserving full SQL access through industry standard
reporting tools. This new capability extends mutual customers' uses of
Centera, using it to deploy structured data archives alongside existing email
and file archives.

"The NParchive integration with Centera delivers real value
to end-user organisations planning database archiving or application
retirement initiatives," says John Bantleman, CEO of Clearpace. "With this
joint solution our mutual customers can preserve historical data from
production or legacy applications on the Centera platform while keeping that
data fully accessible. NParchive's extreme data compression which can exceed
40:1 allied with zero upfront design and low-touch ongoing maintenance
dramatically reduces the cost of managing legacy data. The bottom line is
that NParchive looks, smells and feels like a traditional database or data
warehouse on the Centera platform without any of the headache or cost of
managing data in those complex environments."

Andrew Collins, EMC Global Alliances Director, said, "The
integration between EMC Centera and Clearpace's NParchive benefits joint
customers who are deploying application archiving or retirement initiatives
by unlocking the value in inactive relational data from any database or log
file, while lowering costs and making it easier to manage and share this
information."

The integration of NParchive with Centera uses the eXtensible
Access Method (XAM) interface, providing a simple and standards-based
approach for deploying structured data archives. This enables simple and
rapid deployment of the joint solution benefiting mutual partners and
end-users.

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

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Contact details

Richard Botley, Chameleon PR +44(0)207-680-5500