CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, October 12, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc , a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has ranked Autonomy as the worldwide market share leader in email archiving based on total software revenue for 2009(1).

According to Gartner's report titled Market Trends: E-mail Archiving Strong Growth Continues Autonomy achieved growth of 18.1% from 2008 to 2009 and market share of 23.7% in 2009.

Regarding the prospects for the email archiving market, Gartner states, The e-mail archiving software market saw 13.2% year-over-year growth in 2009. Although this is down from the 2008 growth rate of 25.7%, e-mail archiving is still among the fastest-growing segments of the software market. While the economic recovery and the success of service providers will impact future growth, hosted solutions and improved offerings from the large on-premises e-mail archiving software vendors should help boost growth of 23.0% through 2014.

Autonomy's comprehensive archiving platform, Autonomy Consolidated Archive, is a modular, secure, and integrated platform that enables customers to leverage the same market-leading archiving technology via an on-premise, cloud-based, hybrid, or appliance based approach. The company's private cloud-based archiving offering continues to generate impressive growth, and recently passed the milestone of 17 Petabytes of data under management.

We believe Autonomy's unique meaning-based approach to email archiving continues to drive our impressive gains in market share, said Mike Sullivan, CEO of Autonomy Protect, Enterprise Markets. Autonomy's ability to automatically identify the concepts and patters within the millions of emails, audio, and video files that flow through a company each day enables customers to appropriately archive and govern their content. By combining these capabilities with Autonomy's highly secure and scalable private cloud, we provide businesses with an unmatched platform from which to drive a range of capabilities, including early case assessment, eDiscovery, legal hold, records management, and multichannel marketing applications.

About Autonomy

Autonomy Corporation plc , 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, Nestlé, 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 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.

(1) Gartner, Market Trends: E-mail Archiving Strong Growth Continues, by Sheila Childs and Alan Dayley, October 6, 2010

Autonomy Editorial Contacts: Randy Cairns Louise Kehoe Autonomy (US) Ogilvy PR (US) +1-408-953-7111 +1-415-677-2739 Randy.cairns@autonomy.com louise.kehoe@ogilvypr.com Edward Bridges David Vindel Financial Dynamics (UK) The Red Consultancy (UK) +44-207-831-3113 +44-207-025-6529 edward.bridges@fd.com david.vindel@redconsultancy.com

SOURCE: Autonomy Corporation plc

CONTACT: Randy Cairns of Autonomy (US), +1-408-953-7111,Randy.cairns@autonomy.com; or Louise Kehoe of Ogilvy PR (US),+1-415-677-2739, louise.kehoe@ogilvypr.com; or Edward Bridges of FinancialDynamics (UK), +44-207-831-3113, edward.bridges@fd.com; or David Vindel ofThe Red Consultancy (UK), +44-207-025-6529, david.vindel@redconsultancy.com