BlackBall® and CUC Announce Strategic Partnership
Award-winning Company Integrates Industrial-Strength Searches for Broadcast & Media Market
SAN DIEGO - December 13, 2005 - BlackBall® Inc., a leading provider of unstructured data management search solutions, and
Computer Upgrade Corporation, a full service storage integrator, today announced a strategic partnership that will enable end-users
and network managers to more efficiently manage digital assets. The integrated solution combines BlackBall's SearchIn data search
tool with CUC's MediaVault NAS tiered storage management product line, allowing users immediate access to data stored within on-line
and near-line media.
"Managing digital assets has become necessary for media businesses to effectively repurpose digital content, regardless of the
storage medium," said Patricia Brown, President & Chief Operating Officer, BlackBall, Inc. "We're excited about this opportunity
to apply BlackBall's technology to this market. Integrating SearchIn's real-time indexing and automatic organization of digital
assets with CUC's product offerings results in a complete solution for managing digital storage."
"Integration of the SearchIn high-performance indexing with our tiered storage solutions provides the quickest access to archived
data available in the market today," said Scot Lamb, CUC President " Our customers will be able to meet both regulatory compliance
and time-to-data requirements demanded by their business needs while providing a very compelling ROI."
BlackBall's SearchIn Server Edition software runs on 32-bit Windows Server Operating Systems, RedHat, Debian, and SuSE Linux, Sun
Solaris and Mac OS X. SearchIn Server Agents support the above plus HP-UX, AIX, and Novell NetWare. SearchIn is available
as a free trial; retail price for SearchIn Server Edition is $695.00, Server Edition Agents are $395.00, and SearchIn Professional
Seat Licenses is $29.95.
About BlackBall, Inc.
BlackBall, Inc., located in San Diego, California, leads the industry in unstructured information asset management solutions.
BlackBall has received awards from Interop and Red Herring Magazine, and was named among the Top 100 Private Companies in North
America for 2005. For more information or to download a free 30-day trail version of SearchIn, please contact BlackBall at
sales@blackball.us,, (877) 808-2288, or www.blackball.us.
About CUC
Computer Upgrade Corporation (CUC), founded in 1986, is headquartered in Corona, CA and leads the industry in archival storage
integration and service. With over 4,000 installations worldwide, CUC offers its customers turnkey storage, archive and backup
solutions tailor made for each customer's environment and requirements. CUC's targets broadcast, medical, imaging, banking,
email archive and monitoring markets. Products range from terabytes to petabytes and include S-ATA RAID,
Tape Libraries,
DVD Libraries and
Optical libraries,
all managed by software to meet each customer's requirements. For more information, visit
www.cucsolutions.com
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For Immediate Release
Press Contact:
Ann Revell-Pechar
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T.678-205-1477 C.404-550-0802
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