Clearpace and 2e2 announce strategic partnership to slash the cost of retaining Oracle data

2e2 to deliver application archiving and sunsetting solutions using integrated Clearpace and HP products.

London, 10th November 2008 – Archive store specialists Clearpace and leading HP reseller and services partner 2e2 have agreed to partner to deliver application archiving solutions in the UK. The partnership will enable 2e2 to more effectively address the application performance and storage issues of large databases for their customers.

2e2 will initially focus on helping customers develop database archiving strategies that will ease the cost and complexity of retaining historical data in Oracle applications. Using an integrated Clearpace NParchive and HP Database Archiving solution, 2e2 will be able to relocate inactive Oracle data to highly compressed but accessible archive stores. The archive stores generated by NParchive can hold in excess of 40x more Oracle data on existing infrastructure.

In addition, 2e2 will also leverage the integrated product suites to deliver application sunsetting solutions that cost-effectively store and manage data from decommissioned legacy systems; a common scenario when customers migrate or upgrade to new Oracle applications. The application sunsetting offering will enable 2e2 customers to eliminate application maintenance fees, reduce storage costs and negate the need to maintain infrastructure museums for legacy systems.

“We’ve seen a sharp increase in application database growth among our customers over the past few years, coupled with an awareness that all data, including database data, must be retained for longer periods for legal, regulatory and internal audit reasons,” said David Kirby, Managing Director for 2e2 Business Applications. “As a result, we proactively encourage our customers to review their current data retention and archiving procedures so they are compliant, while also driving storage and operational cost reductions in the process. We have become very familiar with the HP Database Archiving product, and the complimentary data compression, time-proofing and immutability capabilities that Clearpace NParchive provides, allow us to achieve all these objectives for the customer.”

Under the partnership agreement 2e2 will resell Clearpace NParchive and provide related services. “It was important for Clearpace to partner with an experienced IT services provider such as 2e2, who have the vision and expertise to deliver integrated solutions to market.” said John Bantleman, CEO of Clearpace, “Many companies have reached an inflexion point where they are generating more data than they can economically manage. These companies are looking for advice and guidance from trusted partners such as 2e2, to help them overcome the burden of long term data retention. In particular, 2e2’s Oracle expertise will allow them to become the service provider of choice for addressing the issues associated with large and growing Oracle applications.”

The integrated Clearpace NParchive and HP Database Archiving solution is available from 2e2 from 10th November 2008.

About Clearpace

Clearpace Software Ltd is a UK-based software company that provides database archiving 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 www.clearpace.com

About 2e2

2e2 is a leading IT managed services and solutions provider. Established in 2002, it has grown into one of the most respected and high-quality IT services providers for medium, large and public-sector organisations in each of its geographies.

2e2 helps customers to reduce costs and create business advantage through a range of proven solutions and high-quality managed services:

· Managed services: remote, on-site and co-sourced managed support encompassing infrastructure, applications and security

· Unified Communications: IP Telephony, video, messaging & collaboration

· Business Application Solutions: Oracle, PeopleSoft and Microsoft Dynamics

· Technology solutions: Data management, security, resilience & virtualization

· Service and asset management: ITIL consulting & service management solutions

By remaining agile and responsive to customers’ needs whilst being large enough to provide peace of mind, 2e2 is fast becoming the IT partner of choice for a growing number of organisations who recognise and value this rare combination.

2e2 is funded by Duke Street, the leading private equity group, and by a consortium of banks. 2e2 has £240m of annual run-rate revenues and more than 1,600 staff.

For more information please see www.2e2.com.

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