BlackBall® and Plasmon® Announce Strategic Partnership
Award-winning Company Integrates Industrial-Strength Searches with Near-line Storage Libraries
SAN DIEGO - December 8, 2005 - BlackBall® Inc., a leading provider of unstructured data management search solutions, and
Plasmon, the market leader for professional data archival systems, today announced a strategic partnership that will enable
corporate end-users and network managers to more efficiently manage files and emails. The integrated solution combines BlackBall's
SearchIn data search tool and Plasmon's UDO and DVD optical libraries to allow users to search and retrieve information stored on
near-line media easily and quickly.
"The storage and management of data on archival media has become necessary in order for businesses to be compliant with Federal
regulations, regardless of the specific regulatory standard," said Patricia Brown, President & Chief Operating Officer, BlackBall,
Inc. "Searching for data and leveraging it into business information is now the challenge. "Integrating SearchIn's real-time
indexing with Plasmon optical libraries represents a complete solution. We're excited about our new partnership and applying
BlackBall's technology to a new market opportunity."
"The partnership between BlackBall and Plasmon enables organizations to provide compliant long term archival storage for their
valuable data assets, while delivering rapid search and access capability to unstructured files, emails and valuable business
data," said Andy Richards, Plasmon Vice President of Business Development. "Whether stored locally, remotely on network volumes,
or on Plasmon UDO libraries, mission-critical information is protected for the life of the data and available without any
operational snags."
Plasmon's flagship product, UDO (Ultra Density Optical), provides the permanence and authenticity of Write-Once technology at the
lowest total cost of ownership. 30GB UDO technology was launched at the end of 2003, marking the completion of a four-year
development program, which provides a 10-year roadmap to include capacity increases to 60GB and 120GB per disc. Timing for the
release of UDO has proven to be advantageous as organizations are facing strict federal regulations that mandate how records
and business data must be stored and maintained.
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 Server is available
as a free trial download at www.blackball.us. SearchIn Server Edition retails for $695.00, Server Edition Agents retail for
$395.00, and SearchIn Professional Seat Licenses retail for $29.95.
About BlackBall, Inc.
BlackBall, Inc., located in San Diego, California, leads the industry in Unstructured Information Asset Management solutions,
receiving awards from Interop and Red Herring Magazine. BlackBall was also named one of 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 the BlackBall
sales department at sales@blackball.us,, (877) 808-2288, or
www.blackball.us.
About Plasmon
Plasmon is a leader in professional archival storage solutions, providing the industry's most comprehensive line of archival
storage products based on UDO drives and media, optical libraries and storage management software. Customers include corporations,
institutions and government agencies worldwide and are backed by a global service and support network. Founded in 1984, Plasmon is
listed on the London Stock Exchange, (LSE: PLM). Worldwide headquarters are in Cambridge, United Kingdom with major manufacturing
facilities in Cork, Ireland and Colorado, USA. Plasmon has regional sales offices throughout Europe and North America. For more
information, visit www.plasmon.com.
Plasmon, UDO and Raidtec are registered trademarks of Plasmon Plc. Copyright 2005.
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For Immediate Release
Press Contact:
Ann Revell-Pechar
ann@revellpechar.com
T.678-205-1477 C.404-550-0802
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