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NEEDHAM, MA — May 25th, 2010 – Sonian, a provider of on-demand, hosted corporate data archiving powered by the cloud, today rolled out new capabilities for its cloud-powered archiving service. The new functionality encompasses archiving of social media and instant messaging (IM) communications, ensuring that organizations can use a single solution to archive user-generated content. This allows compliance with regulatory mandates such as FINRA and FRCP, including the new FINRA regulation governing social media use, enacted in early 2010. It also aids preparedness to meet eDiscovery readiness guidelines, a crucial issue for SMBs.

Social media and IM usage for business is largely a user-driven movement, rather than one mandated by companies; nonetheless, social media and IM use are on the rise. Access to business-controlled and personal accounts has enabled real-time dialogue and results, but also means that companies need to find a way to archive — and retrieve — these communications in real time to prepare for compliance or eDiscovery queries. Sonian’s hosted, cloud-based archiving service enables just that, and is affordable and scalable across any number of users and platforms in a given company.

Sonian’s solution enables archiving of social media communications that take place on platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. It also allows archiving of IM communications on services such as Yahoo! Messenger, Google Chat, MSN Messenger, AIM, Microsoft Office Communications Server and other platforms. IT departments have the capability to select which personal and business accounts are relevant, and include or exclude them from archiving accordingly.

“Today, business is conducted 24/7 over many different platforms; this is the new business culture, and it’s both efficient and productive,” said Greg Arnette, founder and CTO of Sonian. “However, as with any migration to a new way of working, the use of social media and IM for business communications creates both opportunity and risk. That’s why we integrated the ability to archive these communications into our proven archiving application to provide one-stop shopping and flawless archiving that enables companies to mitigate their risk and reap all possible benefits.”

Sonian’s hosted, on-demand email archiving solution spans Microsoft Exchange, Novell GroupWise and IBM Lotus, along with Web-based email applications. The ability to capture business communications over any medium, archive them in the cloud and access them in real time is a growing need, and Sonian’s offering spans all key data types. Archiving capabilities for email, social media and IM are available individually or as a package. The new solution is available immediately, and is easily deployed for archiving email, instant messaging, social media streams or any combination thereof.

To learn more about Sonian’s hosted archiving capabilities, please visit: http://www.sonian.com/solutions/.

About Sonian
Sonian provides on-demand, hosted data archiving services powered by the cloud that enable any company to efficiently handle eDiscovery requirements and achieve legal, corporate and regulatory compliance. The Company is focused on real-time information retrieval for companies using a variety of data platforms. With more than 3000 customer deployments worldwide and solutions architected specifically for the cloud, as well as a robust network of partners, Sonian couples innovation with expertise to meet the archiving needs of enterprises and SMBs. For more information, please visit www.sonian.com.

CWS to leverage Sonian’s cloud computing platform to drive advanced email archiving and eDiscovery

NEEDHAM, MA – May 12, 2010 – Sonian, a provider of on-demand, hosted corporate data archiving services powered by the cloud, today announced that it has been selected by CWS Capital Partners LLC as the archiving platform for the company’s Novell GroupWise platform. The deployment allows CWS to meet FINRA regulations and effectively allocate IT resources away from the time-consuming task of manually searching millions of emails to prove compliance. With Sonian’s cloud-based hosted archiving platform, CWS now has access to all employee-generated emails in real time.

CWS is one of the nation’s largest investment management firms, specializing in real estate. With a portfolio exceeding $1.5 billion and 15,000 housing units, CWS has 500 employees dispersed regionally across the country. As an investment management firm, CWS must comply with all FINRA regulations, including those that mandate how records must be stored. Under FINRA rules, electronic records must be preserved exclusively in a non-rewriteable and non-erasable format.

Prior to deploying Sonian’s on-demand, cloud-powered solution, a search request for an audit, lawsuit or internal query mandated that IT personnel scour backup tapes of all employee email, which could take up to two weeks. By selecting Sonian’s hosted solution, the need for manual search is eliminated; now, CWS can now easily retrieve email anytime, anywhere, cutting the search time down to seconds.

“We chose Sonian to provide hosted email archiving because its cloud computing capabilities enable it to easily handle the volume of data that needed to be archived, and scale up as needed. Sonian delivered a compliant solution that allowed us to allocate IT resources more efficiently—a must-have in the financial world,” said David Greene, director of information technology at CWS Capital Partners. “Sonian has far exceeded initial expectations. The product only took minutes to implement, and our IT team has been able to free up time to work on more important mission-critical projects.”

Along with ease of use and the freeing of IT resources, another important factor was choosing a non-disruptive technology that was compatible with CWS’ existing email system, GroupWise. Sonian’s partnership with Novell and deep knowledge of GroupWise enable smooth integration with the platform and seamless archiving of GroupWise-based data.

“By selecting Sonian for its GroupWise archiving needs, CWS is saving time, money and resources,” said Greg Arnette, founder and CTO of Sonian. “With on-premise server archiving, companies still need to back up that data, making it a costly and inefficient solution. By moving its electronic communication to the cloud, CWS employees and IT staff now have full access to all emails from their GroupWise platform in seconds, easily meeting FINRA regulations and eDiscovery needs as they arise.”

With this deployment, CWS is now compliant with all necessary FINRA regulations pertaining to email communication, and has made a lasting investment in the preservation of its records, improved the performance of the GroupWise platform and created significant cost savings, allowing employees to focus on the day-to-day business of the company.

To learn more about Sonian’s cloud-based hosted archiving solution, please visit: http://www.sonian.com/.

About Sonian

Sonian provides on-demand, hosted data archiving services powered by the cloud that enable any company to efficiently handle eDiscovery requirements and achieve legal, corporate and regulatory compliance. The Company is focused on real-time information retrieval for companies using a variety of data platforms. With customer deployments worldwide and solutions architected specifically for the cloud, as well as a robust network of partners, Sonian couples innovation with expertise to meet the archiving needs of enterprises and SMBs. For more information, please visit www.sonian.com.

– Greg Arnette to Present on Panel Presentation –

WHO: Sonian Founder and CTO Greg Arnette

WHAT: Panel session: Preparation & Organizational Workflow

WHEN: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 4:00 pm ET

WHERE: State of the Cloud Executive Conference 2010, Boston, MA

NEEDHAM, MA, April 20, 2010 –– Sonian, Inc., the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company, today announced that founder and CTO Greg Arnette will be speaking on a panel session at the State of the Cloud Executive Conference, occurring on April 26 and 27, 2010.

The State of the Cloud Executive Conference is the convenient, one-stop Cloud Computing conference designed for CEOs, CIOs, senior IT executives and other decision makers. Greg will be a panelist for the “Preparation & Organizational Workflow” session, to be held on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. ET, alongside participants from Hurwitz & Associates, Patients Know Best, Parlerai Inc. & OnCorps and Savvis.

On the panel, Greg will be discussing the benefits and potential pitfalls businesses face when moving to cloud-based applications or services, and what organizations can do to make this move as easy and efficient as possible.

Details about the State of the Cloud Executive Conference are available at: http://www.stateofthecloud.com/index.html.

More information on Sonian’s expertise and offerings can be found at www.sonian.com.

About Sonian

Sonian provides on-demand, hosted data archiving services powered by the cloud that enable any company to efficiently handle eDiscovery requirements and achieve legal, corporate and regulatory compliance. The Company is focused on real-time information retrieval for companies using a variety of data platforms. With customer deployments worldwide and solutions architected specifically for the cloud, as well as a robust network of partners, Sonian couples innovation with expertise to meet the archiving needs of enterprises and SMBs. For more information, please visit www.sonian.com.

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Recognized for leveraging cloud computing platform to drive advanced email archiving and eDiscovery

NEEDHAM, MA, April 9, 2010 –– Sonian, Inc., the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnDemand Top 100 winners.  Inclusion in the OnDemand Top100 signifies a company’s leadership amongst its peers with game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. Sonian was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry expert partners such as Hewlett-Packard, Morgan Stanley, KPMG and leaders spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

Sonian and the OnDemand Top 100 companies will be honored at AlwaysOn’s OnDemand event on April 19, 2010 at Hewlett-Packard’s Worldwide Headquarters in Palo Alto, CA.  This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on how the Internet is disrupting how companies—from small businesses to large enterprises—create, store, distribute, analyze, and take advantage of their mission-critical data.

“As the digital information created by businesses continues to explode at astronomical rates, the need to store, manage, analyze, and share this information is becoming extremely challenging,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “We congratulate this year’s OnDemand Top 100 for providing the technology platforms and services needed to manage and leverage this new era of information complexity and overload.”

With email and employee-generated content doubling each year, enterprises need a trusted partner that can enable a cost-effective and scalable data archiving strategy. Sonian’s archive and search intelligence platform, built from the ground up on a cloud-compute infrastructure, unlocks the value in “dark-data” stored in email and files throughout an organization via its SaaS archiving and eDiscovery application.

“Sonian is delighted to be recognized as a 2010 OnDemand Top 100 winner for its innovative cloud-powered email archiving and e-discovery SaaS offering,” said Greg Arnette, founder and CTO of Sonian. “Conceived and built on a cloud-powered software stack, Sonian’s service processes the most data against the fewest CPU hours, giving customers cost-effective, enterprise-grade data archiving and eDiscovery with scale based on individual business demands.”

The OnDemand Top 100 winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders.  The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2010 list.  A full list of all the OnDemand Top 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/34759

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.

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn’s preeminent executive event series includes the Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East, GoingGreen Silicon Valley, GoingGreen East, and GoingGreen Europe. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.

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Today is an exciting day for Sonian and the IBM® Lotus® community. Just a few moments ago, here at Lotusphere® 2010 in Orlando, Kevin Cavanaugh, IBM Vice President of Messaging and Collaboration,  detailed the future of the Lotus cloud collaboration strategy.  In addition to announcing some major customer wins, Kevin confirmed that IBM is continuing to make significant investments in offering its customers the ability to take advantage of cloud powered collaboration and IBM LotusLiveTM Notes 2.0 will be at the forefront of that investment.

Kevin and the team at IBM understand that email archiving and eDiscovery are core components of any enterprise cloud powered collaboration infrastructure. With this understanding, IBM announced a teaming agreement with Sonian, the experts in cloud powered email archiving and eDiscovery, to enable email archiving for LotusLive Notes and LotusLive iNotes.

What exactly does this mean?

1. IBM and Sonian have worked together to create an automated, secure feed of customer data from the LotusLive Notes environment to the Sonian Archive Service.
2. In addition to the automated feed from LotusLive Notes for hosted e-mail, IBM has worked with Sonian to develop an in-the-cloud exclusive: Notes Compound Document Record (CDR) support. This means that you can index 100% of the text content, including workflow artifacts and content stored in rich text fields.
3. The service is planned to be available with the release of LotusLive Notes 2.0

Who will benefit and when?

1. Customers of LotusLive Notes – Upon the launch of the LotusLive Notes 2.0
2. Customers of LotusLive iNotes – Immediately! Contact Sonian to learn more

NEEDHAM, MA, December 15, 2009 –– Sonian, Inc., the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company, today announced full e-discovery support and advanced search capabilities as native components of its Cloud-powered email archiving and e-discovery service. Sonian ensures litigation readiness should the need arise while it simultaneously reduces storage costs, improves overall email server performance, meets compliance requirements and delivers a quick, easy and secure end-user experience.

Sonian Advanced Search features a web-based interface that conducts full searches across text and attachments with Google-like speed to find desired items within seconds. By tracking conversations going back years, finding every email on any specified topic and meeting discovery requests in seconds, it makes e-discovery fast and simple. Searches can easily be conducted by legal or compliance staff from a web-browser interface with results in just a few hours.

In the case of impending lawsuits, Sonian allows users to define a litigation hold for each legal case and protect relevant data from deletion indefinitely. Using the web-based user interface, legal counsel or IT can search for relevant messages and copy them to a hold folder where they remain for as long as the hold is in effect.

“Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), all corporate email can be requested for legal discovery. Failing to enforce a consistent retention policy and being unprepared to produce email data within very tight timelines may result in a presumption of guilt, cost millions in fines or settlements and damage credibility,” said George Nichols, CEO of Sonian, Inc. “Sonian allows businesses to comply with the FRCP requirements, apply litigation holds and easily meet e-discovery requests without paying for unnecessary features or placing additional demands on IT.”

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.

NEEDHAM, MA, December 8, 2009 –– Sonian, Inc., the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company, today announced that founder and CTO Greg Arnette will speak at the Xconomy Forum: Cloud3 to take place from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 10, 2009, at the Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142. Sonian’s mission is to archive the world’s electronic communications and files and simultaneously make them universally accessible and useful.

Cloud computing at its core essence offers incredible amounts of compute, storage and bandwidth for low commodity prices. Sonian’s Cloud-powered email archiving and ediscovery service promises to reduce storage costs, improve overall email server performance, meet compliance requirements and deliver a quick, easy and secure end-user experience. At the Xconomy Forum: Cloud3, Arnette will speak about capital-efficient cloud startups as well as a fourth wave of enterprise computing, where organizations adopt a hybrid IT approach that solves enterprise pain points with cloud computing that is as secure and reliable as on-premise IT.

Xconomy Forum: Cloud3

WHAT: “Cloud Computing and the Fourth Wave of Enterprise IT”
WHO: Greg Arnette, founder and CTO, Sonian, Inc.
WHEN: Thursday, December 10, at 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT
WHERE: Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142.

About Greg Arnette
At Sonian, Arnette is responsible for the product vision, technical innovation, and engineering leadership. He has been a messaging, collaboration, Internet and networking expert for more than 15 years and has designed leading messaging system solutions for all communication platforms. From 1998 to 2006, Arnette was founder and CTO for IntelliReach Corporation, a pioneer in integrated messaging management products and services. Arnette has a BA/BS from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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.

NEEDHAM, MA, December 7, 2009 –– Sonian Inc., the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company, today announced that Saint John Vianney High School has implemented the Sonian Cloud-powered email archiving and ediscovery service to meet its seven-year email retention policy. Saint John Vianney chose Sonian because the affordable hosted service complements its existing Gmail system, which Google provides for free to schools and universities as part of its Google Apps for Education offering, on both price and ease of use.

“When measured against hosted email and archiving suites, the combination of Gmail and Sonian was still less expensive. As far as I’m concerned, Saint John Vianney has a best-of-breed solution with the combined Gmail and Sonian services,” said Tom McKenna, network administrator for Saint John Vianney High School. “Their SLAs mean they worry about the data by providing capabilities that we could never afford, such as redundancy, multiple data center backups, climate controlled data centers, etc. All at a fair price.”

Sonian also was easy to implement. McKenna was able to take advantage of Gmail’s option to configure and sort mail to another box and transition 140 mail boxes onto the new system in 30 minutes. “I set Sonian up lickety-split; set it and forget it,” McKenna says. “Gmail does make it easy to flip between accounts, but Sonian also is easy to configure and get up and running.”

“FERPA (Family Education Rights and Privacy Act) requires schools to ensure protection of student educational records. A simple way to achieve FERPA compliance with emailed records is to archive them securely with Sonian’s hosted email archiving solution,” said George Nichols, CEO of Sonian. “By storing emails securely in the cloud, these records are retrieved and viewed only by those allowed within FERPA.”

About Saint John Vianney High School

Saint John Vianney High School is a private, Catholic institution based in Holmdel, NJ, with over 1,000 students and a combined staff of approximately 100 teachers, administrators, and support personnel. School facilities are the finest in Monmouth County with 38 acres of developed land that includes athletic fields, a “turf” stadium field, two gyms and a weight training facility that support more than 25 varsity sports.  Saint John Vianney is a one-to-one Tablet PC school where technology is key to education and communication.  A ParentPortal allows parents/guardians to go online to see their child’s real-time progression in each class. Over 99% of graduates go on to college and attend many of the most prestigious colleges and universities.

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.

Cost effective, secure, reliable, compliant and easy-to-use Cloud-powered email archiving and ediscovery service will be on display

NEEDHAM, MA, December 2, 2009 –– Sonian, Inc., the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company, today announced it has been selected to exhibit at the MIT Startup Showcase from 6:00 to 9:00 P.M. on Thursday, December 3, at the MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139. Sonian’s Cloud-powered email archiving and ediscovery service helps reduce storage costs, improve overall email server performance, meet compliance requirements and delivers a quick, easy and secure end-user experience.

Featuring 30 early stage startup exhibitors, the MIT Startup Showcase is part of the 12^th Annual MIT Venture Capital Conference. Sonian is one of 30 early-stage businesses from sectors including information technology, healthcare and clean technology to exhibit their business vision and technology prowess. Attendees include VCs, Angels, corporate executives, and the general public.

“The upcoming MIT Startup Showcase is a great opportunity to see what an impact Sonian’s Cloud-powered, hosted email archiving and ediscovery service is making on organizations,” said George Nichols, CEO of Sonian, Inc. “Our platform-agnostic Sonian service supports all major e-mail programs, requires no additional hardware or software investment and can be up and running within an hour.”

About Sonian

Sonian is the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company, which delivers archiving/storage, ediscovery 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.

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