VERITAS Software Corporation (Nasdaq: VRTS) today announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for E-mail Active-Archiving, 2005. VERITAS' Enterprise Vault^TM e-mail and content archiving software enables companies and government agencies to protect critical records, improve employee productivity and achieve compliance with industry and government regulations and laws requiring the retention and supervision of e-mails.

According to the Gartner report, vendors included in the Magic Quadrant are measured on completeness of vision and ability to execute, and are required to provide Gartner with at least five reference customers using the product in production. The vendors are then positioned into one of the four quadrants: Leaders, Visionaries, Challengers and Niche Players. According to Gartner, Leaders are vendors who are performing well today, have a clear market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position.

VERITAS added Enterprise Vault software to its product line when it acquired KVS Inc. in September 2004. VERITAS recently announced the upcoming release of Enterprise Vault 6.0, the first new version under the VERITAS name. Scheduled for a July 2005 release, Enterprise Vault 6.0 will be available to Lotus Domino/Notes messaging system users for the first time, providing coverage for the leading e-mail systems when combined with its longstanding support of Microsoft Exchange. Enterprise Vault 6.0 will also enable organizations to archive other forms of electronic documents and records including instant messages, Microsoft Windows and Network Appliance file systems and Microsoft SharePoint documents.

The Gartner report cites mailbox management and the need to comply with laws and regulations that directly or indirectly require the retention and supervision of e-mails as the primary factors driving the rapid growth of the e-mail archiving market.

"Enterprise Vault is the leading content archiving software in the Exchange user market with more than 1,200 customer installations worldwide to date managing over 2.4 million mailboxes as of the close of 2004," said Jeremy Burton, executive vice president, data management group, VERITAS Software. "By adding support for Lotus Domino/Notes, we will be able to address the archiving needs of more than 90 percent of the worl's leading corporate messaging systems. Including support for other types of documents and messages, such as Microsoft SharePoint and instant messages, will enable our customers to more effectively manage their growing records stores, and help ensure full compliance with electronic document retention and supervision regulations."

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