Autonomy Named a Leader in Message Archiving Software by Independent Research Firm

CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, March 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

- Autonomy Scored the Highest in Current Offering, Vision & Product Strategy and Services

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that Autonomy has been named a Leader in the March 2011 report by Forrester Research Inc., titled "The Forrester Wave(TM): Message Archiving Software, Q1 2011." Autonomy scored the highest in the Current Offering category, which includes message capture, range of content types supported, message management, supervision, scalability, security and deployment flexibility, as well as in the Vision and Product Strategy and Services categories.

The Forrester Wave(TM) profile on Autonomy states:

    
    - "Autonomy Consolidated Archive offers the most complete product
      evaluated and it receives top marks for message capture, range of
      content types supported, message management, and supervision
      functionality. The vendor's rich set of deployment models and depth of
      integrated eDiscovery functionality contribute to Autonomy's leadership
      position."
    - "(Autonomy's) strong set of flexible message archiving offerings and
      first-class legal risk mitigation support contribute to its leadership
      position."

"The tremendous success of Autonomy's Consolidated Archive is the result of our unique vision for a next-generation archiving solution. We are very pleased with the high scores we received in the Message Archiving Wave report," said Mike Sullivan, CEO of Autonomy Protect. "Only Autonomy can automatically apply governance policies by understanding the meaning of all types of human friendly information, including audio, video and social media content. With Autonomy Consolidated Archive as the anchoring technology, organizations can drive their critical compliance, eDiscovery, and Records Management initiatives directly from the archive, and make the data available via an on-premise, cloud-based, hybrid, or appliance-based approach."

Please visit http://www.autonomy.com/forresterarchivingwave for more information.

About Autonomy

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, spearheads the Meaning Based Computing movement. IDC recently recognized Autonomy as having the largest market share and fastest growth in the worldwide search and discovery market. Autonomy's technology allows computers to harness the full richness of human information, forming a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data, including unstructured information, such as text, email, web pages, voice, or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including pan-enterprise search, customer interaction solutions, information governance, end-to-end eDiscovery, records management, archiving, business process management, web content management, web optimization, rich media management and video and audio analysis.

Autonomy's customer base is comprised of more than 20,000 global companies, law firms and federal agencies including: AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Deutsche Bank, DLA Piper, Ericsson, FedEx, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyds Banking Group, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, Tesco, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. More than 400 companies OEM Autonomy technology, including Symantec, Citrix, HP, Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO. The company has offices worldwide. Please visit http://www.autonomy.com to find out more.

Autonomy and the Autonomy logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autonomy Corporation plc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

    
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    Winifred Shum                        Louise Kehoe
    Autonomy (US)                        Ogilvy PR (US)
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    Edward Bridges                       David Vindel
    Financial Dynamics (UK)              The Red Consultancy (UK)
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