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posted on 28 March 2008 05:00

NEW YORK, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Exalead(R), a global provider of search software for business and the Web, today announced a new Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and reseller agreement with Atempo, Inc., a leading provider of cross-platform data protection and archiving solutions.

Under the terms of the agreement, Atempo will integrate exalead one:enterprise OEM Edition(TM), including Exalead's full content index and search capabilities, into the Atempo Digital Archive (ADA). ADA is an advanced, file-based enterprise archiving platform designed to optimize the archiving and retrieval process for business critical files, directories and unstructured data types.

In addition, Atempo will resell exalead one:desktop(TM), Exalead's fully unified enterprise desktop search solution that allows end users to search for information regardless of format or location, including multimedia files, e-mails, contacts, tasks and notes, and other documents.

"Atempo exemplifies a next-generation data protection and archiving solution that demands a best-in-class partner to meet users' expectations for a consumer-like web search experience in all of their enterprise applications and exceed the current industry standards for enterprise search," said Kevin Kramer, vice president of OEM, Exalead. "By embedding the Exalead solution, Atempo can offer its customers the ability to quickly and intuitively access relevant information stored in ADA to help make informed business decisions and unlock the value of the large volume of enterprise data that is available to them."

"Search is a critical component of Atempo's archiving platform," said Mark Sutter, CTO of Atempo. "With Exalead, we found a partner that has a uniquely scalable enterprise search capability that seamlessly integrates into our platform."

End Users to Benefit from Fully Integrated, Powerful Search Engine

Through its agreement with Exalead, Atempo will begin to offer a new advanced search and full-text index feature as an option to its customers. As a result, end users will gain an entirely new way to retrieve data from the archive using powerful search capabilities within a secure, flexible, and easy-to-use high-volume archiving solution. This new combined solution is especially attractive for companies in markets such as eDiscovery and compliance.

exalead one:enterprise OEM Edition is a search solution designed for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that demand a high-performance, scalable and context-based search solution that can be quickly integrated into the ISV's solution footprint. With Exalead's flexible OEM licensing and support model, exalead one:enterprise OEM Edition helps ISVs to drive revenue, maximize user adoption and lower total-cost-of-ownership for their customers while differentiating their application in the marketplace.

To learn more about how Exalead can benefit your organization, visit http://www.exalead.com/oem-edition .

About Exalead

Founded in 2000 by search-engine pioneers, Exalead is a global provider of search software for businesses and the Web. Based on the first and only unified search technology platform, Exalead's products provide users with a single access point to information, regardless of format or location. Its patented Search by Serendipity(TM) navigation system adapts to user habits, providing a uniquely satisfying search experience. The exalead one:search(TM) line of software products is used by leading banking and financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, research, retailing and telecommunications companies around the world.

A specially-designed OEM version of the award- winning exalead one:search platform is also available for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that need a compelling information access solution which can be easily embedded into any business application. Exalead is an operating unit of Qualis, an international holding company, with offices inParis, New York,San Francisco,Glasgow,Milan and Darmstadt. For more information, please visit http://corporate.exalead.com.

About Atempo

Atempo allows companies and organizations around the world to preserve vital intellectual property and digital information, and to access that information at any time with extraordinary reliability. Digital assets are now the life blood of any business and reliable data protection and archiving solutions must be implemented in order to preserve these assets. From large, centralized data centers and distributed enterprises to small remote offices, Atempo provides highly-scalable backup and recovery, archiving and security solutions for Windows, Mac, Linux, UNIX, iSeries and all major databases and applications. For real-time data protection of laptops and desktops, Atempo's award-winning continuous data protection technology captures changes as they occur, allowing information to be recovered up to the moment of data loss or hardware failure. Atempo has more than 3,000 customers worldwide, with a sales and support network of global resellers. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., and has operations inEurope and Asia. Learn more about Atempo at: www.atempo.com.

^{[Formatted by Paul Warren.]}