New System Leverages Technology and Services From Sun

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collaboration between Sun and AXS-One helps customers address the growing tide
of global regulatory compliance and business governance requirements such as
Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, SEC 17a-4, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and their equivalents
around the world.
Today's announcement extends Sun's existing content and compliance
offerings that include the Sun Content Infrastructure System powered by Sun
StorEdge SAM-FS, the Sun StorEdge(TM) Compliance Archiving System, and its
Content and Compliance Client Solutions Practice. Through integration with the
AXS-One Compliance Platform, customers now have a single platform for the
management of all corporate electronic records including e-mail and instant
messages.
This solution helps customers address compliance requirements more quickly
while mitigating the risks often associated with new implementations.
Additional operational efficiencies are achieved with the delivery of a common
repository for all compliance information, expedient access to information
assets, broad scalability, and enhanced security.
"In the past few months, complying with government regulations has become
a top priority for organizations around the world," said Ed Valdez, vice
president of Integrated Solutions at Sun Microsystems. "Our customers have a
critical need to get more out of their information assets and intellectual
property while ensuring compliance with the regulations that affect them. This
solution delivers authentication of and access to corporate information while
ensuring maximum security anywhere, anytime -- and this translates into a
real-time business advantage for our customers."

New Solution Addresses Billion Dollar Market
According to a December 2004 AMR Research alert by John Hagerty, public
companies are projected to spend $6 billion in 2005 to become Sarbanes-Oxley
compliant. A study published in the same month by IT market research and
advisory firm IDC states that email archiving applications revenue is expected
to top $180 million worldwide in 2004, up from just $33 million two years ago,
and to continue to grow at a compound annual growth rate of over 50% through
2008*.
Gartner is tracking the vendors in what they call the "e-mail
active-archiving market" and believes the products in this category need to
include archiving, indexing, hierarchical storage management (HSM) and basic
records retention management, as well as special applications for meeting the

needs of compliance officers and those tasked with producing records for legal
discovery requests**.
Carolyn DiCenzo, vice president of research in storage management and
e-mail archiving software for Gartner, states, "Leading solutions in this
space bring together all of these components to address the retention
requirements around e-mail while providing the opportunity to more efficiently
and cost-effectively manage the impact of growing e-mail data stores."

Proven Technologies Deliver on Compliance Requirements
By leveraging AXS-One's Compliance Platform, Sun is uniquely positioned in
this growing market as the only company to provide customers with a complete
and customizable compliance solution that offers these key components:

-- The Solaris 10 Operating System which is optimized for storage
-- Sun StorEdge SAM-FS, industry-leading file system software
-- A single web-based search screen for all records
-- A heterogeneous platform
-- Interoperability with all classes of data/records including email,
messaging, documents, databases, ERP, images, etc.

Sun and AXS-One recently completed a full-scale joint testing project to
verify the scalability of the Sun Compliance and Content Management Solution
as well as to establish implementation and best practice recommendations for
customers. The results showed that the solution successfully scales to meet
the requirements of large global corporations. This has been achieved as a
result of optimization and integration of the component parts to ensure full
interoperability and maximized performance.
The solution offers different storage infrastructure options in order to
address each customers' unique compliance requirements. The options include
the Sun StorEdge Compliance Archiving System for non-eraseable,
non-rewriteable "WORM" disk capabilities, extendable per file retention
periods, and advanced security; and the Sun Content Infrastructure System for
automated tiered archiving and other infrastructure components that may be
required. Sun leverages the expertise of its Content and Compliance Client
Solutions Practice to ensure speedy delivery of the optimal solution.

Next Generation Collaboration
Sun and AXS-One are collaborating to incorporate capabilities that will
supersede Sun's current e-mail archiving solution, Infinite Mailbox. The Sun
Compliance and Content Management Solution will replace Infinite Mailbox and
seamlessly provide existing and future customers with a single, scalable
framework that can archive and manage all electronic records, including
e-mail, while addressing storage, compliance, and content management
challenges.
"AXS-One is delighted that Sun has chosen to extend our business and
technology relationship," said Jerry Vendome, executive vice president of
business development at AXS-One. "We are thrilled to have the opportunity to
work with a global leader in technology. Our teams have closely collaborated
to optimize our technology for the Sun Solaris platform, and the testing
results demonstrate the proven scalability of Sun systems and the solution."

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