Sonian Pledges Continued Email Archiving Support for All Zimbra Users Through VMware Acquisition


NEEDHAM, MA--(Marketwire - January 15, 2010) - Sonian Inc. today pledged continued support of Zimbra's messaging architecture through its platform agnostic, cloud-powered, email archiving service during and beyond the acquisition by VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions.

Sonian provides the only platform agnostic, cloud-powered email archiving service. "We want to reassure all Zimbra users that Sonian will continue to offer an affordable and secure solution to meet your compliant email archiving requirements. You can utilize our solution today and in the future without fear that your archive will suffer any technical compromise," pledged Sonian CEO George Nichols.

Sonian's email archiving service is unique among email archiving providers because its platform-agnostic, SaaS-based model supports all messaging platforms. "Because of our design, any changes made to the Zimbra platform after the acquisition will not affect Sonian's ability to capture, store, and retrieve email from the archive," promised Sonian's CTO Greg Arnette.

Sonian's email archiving solution stores email messages in the cloud and offers unlimited storage at a simple monthly price/user. Using Sonian's email archiving solution ensures all regulatory compliance statutes are met and makes litigation support simple with advanced e-discovery features. Zimbra users of all sizes can take advantage of Sonian's secure archiving solution and feel confident in its promise of reliability.

Sonian provides Zimbra an affordable, reliable, scalable, secure and feature-rich hosted email archiving and e-discovery service that helps them satisfy the following requirements:

--  Regulatory Compliance (SEC, FINRA, SOX, FRCP, etc)
--  Litigation Support and e-Discovery
--  Storage Resource Management
    

About Sonian

Sonian is the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company, which delivers archiving/storage, e-discovery and compliance services. Global organizations rely on Sonian for its affordability, security, ease of deployment and use. Founded in 2006, Sonian supports thousands of customers on all major enterprise collaboration solutions including Exchange, Notes, GroupWise, Zimbra and others; and enjoys strategic partnerships with industry leaders Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Axway and IBM. For more information, visit www.sonian.com.

Contact Information: Contacts: Megan Assarrane Sonian megan@sonian.net 617.958.4015 Joan Geoghegan Cavalier Communications joan@cavalier-communications.com 978-371-3921