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StoredIQ and NetApp Deliver Next-Generation Enterprise-Class Information Management Solution
Integrated technology provides increased scalability while reducing cost and complexity of eDiscovery and information management

Austin, TX – March 16, 2010 – StoredIQ, a leading provider of Intelligent Information Management and eDiscovery solutions, today announced a solution partnership with NetApp to offer customers best-of-breed information management and storage solutions for enterprise environments. Under terms of the agreement, StoredIQ has joined the NetApp Alliance Partner Program and will integrate NetApp® storage into StoredIQ's Intelligent Information Management Platform, an enterprise-class, software-based appliance designed to manage the functional intersection of eDiscovery, Information Governance, Records Management, and Storage Management.

StoredIQ’s Intelligent Information Management Platform is designed to easily integrate into an existing corporate infrastructure while reducing IT administration and total cost of ownership by including all the necessary software, hardware, and storage within a packaged appliance offering. StoredIQ is the only mainstream information management solution to include onboard storage for data indices.

The integration with NetApp FAS2000 series NAS provides the greatest feature blend of price, performance, and scalability required by the StoredIQ appliance. Among the market-leading technologies inherent in the FAS2000 series, the StoredIQ platform can also leverage NetApp Snapshot™ technology to back up indices and recover data in the case of disk failure.

StoredIQ also leverages the FAS2000 series’ scalability to offer a wide variety of capacities to meet varied customer demands. With the same FAS2000 product family, the StoredIQ appliance can scale from 5TB to 500TB of data under management within a single cluster, growing as the enterprise expands by simply adding additional NetApp NAS capacity.

"One of the most difficult challenges when deploying an information management solution into an IT ecosystem is integrating it into the existing corporate infrastructure,” said Keith Zoellner, CTO at StoredIQ. “Combining best-in-class technologies from StoredIQ and NetApp into a consolidated platform limits the impact on our customers and delivers enterprise-class information management features, reliability, and scalability for unprecedented performance and reduced TCO.”

"The Alliance Partner Program is designed to bring together innovative and integrated technologies to better enable customer success," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions and Alliances at NetApp. "This is exactly what StoredIQ brings to the relationship. As the amount of enterprise data continues to expand, StoredIQ’s eDiscovery and information management solution helps NetApp customers intelligently and efficiently manage the unwieldy amounts of unstructured data."

Availability
StoredIQ’s Intelligent Information Management Platform, including NetApp’s FAS2000 family, is available immediately worldwide via its direct sales and channel partners. For information about specific configurations and pricing, please contact info@storediq.com.

About StoredIQ
StoredIQ is a leading provider of enterprise-class Intelligent Information Management solutions, enabling organizations to gain visibility and control over business-critical information to help meet their compliance, governance and legal discovery requirements. The company provides a range of integrated solutions for fast response to litigation and investigations, for proactive "litigation readiness," and for information protection and risk management, as well as storage management. Industry-leading companies rely on StoredIQ’s award-winning technology to streamline their information management and eDiscovery processes to reduce the risk, complexity and cost of litigation. For more information, visit www.storediq.com.

About the NetApp Alliance Partner Program
The NetApp Alliance Partner Program gives qualified infrastructure and application providers access to NetApp solutions, software development kits, technical support, training, certification, product information, and marketing and sales assistance. Customers benefit by having access to best-of-breed partner solutions that are tested to work with NetApp storage. Additional information about the NetApp Alliance Partner Program is available at http://www.netapp.com/alliances.

StoredIQ and Dell Team to Offer Market-Leading Intelligent eDiscovery and Litigation Readiness Solution
StoredIQ Joins Dell’s DX Object Storage Partner Ecosystem

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--StoredIQ, a leading provider of Intelligent Information Management and eDiscovery technologies, announced today that the company has teamed with Dell to integrate their market-leading technologies, combining intelligent eDiscovery and litigation readiness with enterprise data management. StoredIQ is among the first Independent Software Vendors (ISV) to pass certification testing and join the new Dell DX Object Storage Partner Ecosystem. Designed to address the continuous growth of electronically stored information (ESI), the Dell DX Object Storage Platform uses a self-managing, peer-scaling architecture that enables customers to access, store and distribute billions of files or other digital content, from archiving systems all the way to the cloud. Paired with StoredIQ’s ability to intelligently identify, collect, analyze and preserve unstructured information, the comprehensive joint solution allows companies to manage electronic information more efficiently, reduce eDiscovery and storage costs and mitigate legal risk.

“Trying to manage petabytes, and eventually exabytes of unstructured data, without the right information management solution puts companies in a vulnerable position - something no company can afford in today's litigation-prone and highly regulated business world”

StoredIQ’s Intelligent Information Management Platform integrates with Dell’s DX Object Storage Platform to support a particularly important aspect of the eDiscovery process – automated legal hold and document retention. To address the significant risks associated with spoliation (modifying, deleting, losing, or not having access to electronically stored information), StoredIQ gives organizations critical visibility into and control over their business content, enabling them to make more informed decisions about the management, retention, and disposition of their data. By copying or moving potentially matter-relevant data to a segregated, protected repository using the Dell DX Object Storage for the immutable preservation of ESI, StoredIQ helps companies manage potentially relevant data in a legally defensible manner.

 “Trying to manage petabytes, and eventually exabytes of unstructured data, without the right information management solution puts companies in a vulnerable position - something no company can afford in today's litigation-prone and highly regulated business world,” said James Schellhase, president and CEO at StoredIQ. “Combining StoredIQ’s proven technology with Dell’s innovative new intelligent data management offering gives customers a smart, highly scalable solution to manage their information assets more efficiently.”
“StoredIQ’s eDiscovery technology is a natural fit with Dell’s intelligent data management approach. It allows customers to deploy a self-contained appliance-based eDiscovery solution utilizing Dell products including the DX Object Storage Platform,” said Brett Roscoe, senior manager, Dell Enterprise Storage.

About StoredIQ
StoredIQ is a leading provider of enterprise-class Intelligent Information Management solutions, enabling organizations to gain visibility and control over business-critical information to help meet their compliance, governance and legal discovery requirements. The company provides a range of integrated solutions for fast response to litigation and investigations, for proactive "litigation readiness," and for information protection and risk management, as well as storage management. Industry-leading companies rely on StoredIQ’s award-winning technology to streamline their information management and eDiscovery processes to reduce the risk, complexity and cost of litigation. For more information, visit www.storediq.com.

BUSINESS IN THE BELTWAY
Beltway Money Woman: Laura Lukaczyk

WASHINGTON, D.C. In the spring of 2000, Laura Lukaczyk was hard at work putting together a new venture capital fund. By day, she consulted for venture giant New Enterprise Associates; by night, she honed her marketing and fundraising plans.

She launched Avansis Ventures in early summer. But by then, the Nasdaq market was in free fall, and the telecom bubble was about to blow.

"It was, like, four times my worst case scenario," Lukaczyk recalls with a chuckle.

Easy to laugh now. Though relatively small at $10 million under management, Lukaczyk and her firm have a roster of interesting portfolio bets and plans for expansion.

So what got her through the dog days? Perhaps most important was her fondness for Beltway investing and a network of top-shelf contacts in the Washington area.

In the latter category, Lukaczyk cites four individuals, all on Avansis' investment committee: Betsy Atkins, Ed Glassmeyer, Frank Bonsal and Arthur J. Marks. Glassmeyer is a founding General Partner of Oak Investment Partners, while Atkins founded Ascend Communications, since acquired by Lucent Technologies (nyse: LU - news - people ).

Ascend was a portfolio star of New Enterprise Associates, a firm founded by Frank Bonsal and where Lukaczyk got a taste of venture investing as a business student in the late '80s (she returned as a consultant a decade later). Marks, an NEA alum, is now a General Partner at Valhalla Partners in Vienna, Va.

The connections have helped with, among other things, vetting deals. In January 2005, for example she turned to a past chief executive of one of NEA's portfolio companies to assess Tucana Technologies, a developer of software to manage and share data.

His verdict: great technology, but the company's product needed work. Flipping to an acquirer looked like the best move. Northrop Grumman (nyse: NOC - news - people ) came calling in summer 2005, and Lukaczyk says it has already deployed Tucana technology.

Lukaczyk's rolodex also benefits her portfolio companies. She's presently on the board of Exent Technologies, a rapidly growing gaming company that counts Yahoo (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) and Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) as customers. Lukaczyk introduced Exent to the latter company, which in turned pulled in Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) for an investment round in March.

Another item sustaining Lukaczyk during the hard times was her Beltway-oriented approach. "I love the D.C. market," she says. Why? The possibility of finding up-and-coming businesses that can use their public sector business to crack commercial markets or vice versa. "There are companies that are able to do both," says Lukaczyk. "That's the perfect combination."

Two Avansis portfolio companies illustrate. One is Trust Digital, a McLean, Va. developer of software to secure mobile computing devices. The company, which boasts partnerships with the likes of Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ), lists three target markets: financial, health care and government/military. Last November, it closed a $9 million round funded by Avansis and BCE Capital (nyse: BCE - news - people ).

Another is StoredIQ. The Austin, Texas, company sells systems that help organizations manage "unstructured data," such as e-mail, text in Web pages, and so on. Like Trust Digital, StoredIQ has its eye on both commercial and government customers. Going for the latter was Lukaczyk's idea. "'You guys really need to be going after the government sector,'" Lukaczyk recalls telling the company before making her investment. "'I'll help you get in.'"

And the future? Though she's not raising money now, Lukaczyk indicates she'd like to add a partner and get the fund into the $50 million ballpark. She's confident that the National Capital region will remain a good place for emerging technology investors. "Government contractors view the early stage companies as a requirement for them to stay in business," says Lukaczyk.

Fox News Network
SHOW: THE BIG STORY WITH JOHN GIBSON 5:00 PM EST
August 30, 2006 Wednesday

KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE: All right. And coming up, why should you think twice before sending that next text message? Your cell phone could possibly get you in a whole lot of trouble one day. It's a "Big Story" warning. You don't want to miss it. That's next on FOX.

GUILFOYLE: Well, lots of us are glued to our cell phones and BlackBerries. Well, count me amongst them. Some of us store personal information about our entire lives in them. But you might want to be careful about what you put in them if you're planning to upgrade that phone one day.

Software expert Nick Magliato is with me now, chief executive officer of Trust Digital.

That's quite a title, Nick. Nick, what are some of the risks of selling your portable electronic devices?

NICK MAGLIATO, TRUST DIGITAL CEO: Well, Kimberly, thanks for having me on tonight. The risks of selling the phones or disposing of the phones after you've used them for a while really span the gambit of questions.

There are phones out there that can do a lot of functions. There are phones out there that can do a few functions. But every one those phones has just a lot of data on it about your personal life, even your professional life.

Right, we all use cell phones today, and they're really a tool that's become part of our mainstream use. And with that new responsibility of owning that phone, you know, you've got to think about the data you're putting on that phone and storing there.

GUILFOYLE: All right, what are you finding? Apparently you have some phones with you today. And what kind of information is in there?

MAGLIATO: Yes, it's various kinds of phones. I mean, there's all kinds of information, simple things like phone numbers and calendars, all the way up to customer contracts and billing information, pharmaceutical information, health care information on phones. It's really pretty dynamic as to how people have started to really integrate phone usage into their life.

And since phones have really become part of our mainstay, you know, we like to have the newest, coolest, latest phone. And so, every time you think about upgrading to a new phone, you know, you want to make sure that old phone and all of its information that's on it is really gone before you start to give that phone to a friend, or family member, or a charity, or even try to sell it on an auction site, for example.

GUILFOYLE: All right. Well, how do you do it? How do you protect yourself? I hoard my phones upstairs in my office. I don't give any of them back or give them away.

MAGLIATO: Yes, well, there's a couple of ways to do. You know, first, you could run it over with a car or sink it in water. That might certainly...

GUILFOYLE: Run it over, OK. That's a little aggressive, but...

MAGLIATO: That might certainly destroy some of the information on it, but it's fine. No, what people typically do in this case is they follow kind of a prescribed procedure to reset the phone. And on some phones, that does a great job of clearing off the data. On other phones, it doesn't.

And it's really tough for consumers to know whether or not the data on that phone has been eliminated. And so my recommendation here to people that are thinking about disposing of a phone is either take it back to the place they bought it, their cell phone store, and say, "Hey, I'm thinking of upgrading my phone. I'd like to sell this phone or give it away. Could you help me make sure the data is no longer on it?"

Or if you work for a company that's got a technical team that knows about phones and the information that's on them, certainly go see your technical team at work and they'll help you out.

GUILFOYLE: All right. And there was a little piece in the Associated Press about someone getting in a little bit of trouble with some -- there you go. What do you know about this?

MAGLIATO: Well, you know, again, we were able to -- you know, in an inadvertent study that we started, we were able to recreate the lives of 10 people by buying these phones off of eBay. And so we did. We saw a lot of personal information. One happened to be a bunch of instant messages about a fellow that were somewhat revealing, but it was also very much of a life history of a person, both their personal data and all their corporate data, that they certainly wouldn't want to auction on eBay.

GUILFOYLE: All right, Nick. Don't ever go through my phone, buddy. Do the right thing. Thanks.