
2007 Press Release
CopperEye and ThorpeGlen Announce Partnership to Help Combat International Terrorism
Agreement Enables Government Agencies and Telecommunications Firms to Address New Anti-Terrorism Data Retention and Retrieval Requirements
May 30, 2007 - Stamford, Conn - CopperEye, a leading
provider of enterprise-class archiving solutions, today announced it
has partnered with ThorpeGlen, a leader in providing monitoring,
analysis and response capabilities for homeland security, organized
crime and major frauds. The partnership was developed specifically to
address emerging Asian anti-terrorism legislation requirements. Under
the agreement, ThorpeGlen will integrate and resell CopperEye Live
Archive Server into its Monitoring System and Collector products,
enabling telecommunication and ISP organizations to cost-effectively
collect, mediate, store and search billions of transactions and
hundreds of terabytes of capacity necessary to address the new
requirements.
With an increasing number of terror threats, Asian countries are
taking aggressive, pro-active steps to prevent any potential violence
toward their countries and their neighbors. CopperEye and ThorpeGlen
effectively eliminate the cost and complexity of addressing the
ever-changing requirements for data retention and retrieval by
deploying high-performance data repositories for record-intensive
applications at the lowest cost possible.
ThorpeGlen has already installed several large scale Call Detail
Records (CDR) collection and analysis systems in Asian countries and is
currently in contract negotiation with several other regional National
Security Agencies for further sales opportunities.
Evolving Government Regulations such as the European Union Data
Retention Act, issued in March 2006, mandates the retention of voice
call and Internet traffic-related data in all 27 member countries, to
be used in cases of serious crimes, including terrorism. The directive
includes the retention of data from mobile phones, Internet and fixed
telephony and email. Any affected party needs to retain essential
information about these communications. According to the directive,
data must be retained for a period of time between six months and two
years, but some member states have chosen to extend that period to up
to five years requiring Communication Service Providers to store and
allow retrieval of communications records from 90 days to one year or
more. This presents a major challenge for telecommunication providers.
Most providers currently do not possess technology with the ability to
store and search through records stored for a minimum of 90 days - data
that can average up to 125 billion transactions.
"After an exhaustive search, CopperEye was the only effective
solution in the market to meet these high demands," said David Woods,
CEO, ThorpGlen. “Existing database technology approaches cannot store
and retrieve critical security-driven information at the speed demanded
by these new regulations. Additionally the CopperEye product was ready
and tested in the field at the high volumes we were looking for. To
date, we have been able to extend the scaling of our systems to process
and store beyond 2 billion event records per day."
Our predictive intelligence capability, developed over many years
with British Telecom, gives ThorpeGlen the unique and leading position
in the market place,” continues Woods. “Previously many crime detection
systems relied predominantly on post-event intelligence. What is
increasingly required is the ability to predict activity leading to
major crime events before they happen. This partnership brings our
customers the ability to help predict that activity. We are proud to
help strengthen their anti-crime and counter-terrorism capability."
CopperEye's Live Archive Server is the most cost-effective and
comprehensive archiving solution available with its ability to
instantly store and recall large volumes of compliance data such as
call detail records and instant messaging. The Live Archive Server
allows companies to easily comply with new government regulations,
without negatively impacting productivity or the bottom line. CopperEye
is able to deploy their Live Archive Server in a few weeks rather than
the months required by other solutions.
"The current telecommunications business environment of dramatically
escalating transaction and data volumes, demands a whole new approach
to cost-effectively comply with the new security directives,” said Kate
Mitchell, CEO, CopperEye. "CopperEye is uniquely positioned to address
this challenge and our Live Archive Server, combined with ThorpeGlen’s
innovative electronic surveillance solutions, will rapidly and
effectively address the intense performance and capacity requirements
to help ensure security for Asia."
About CopperEye
CopperEye is a leading provider of enterprise-class archiving
solutions to meet both business needs and external compliance
requirements. CopperEye Live Archive Server software helps companies
cost-effectively capture, quickly store and instantly access selective
transactions from tens- or hundreds-of-terabytes which reflect months
or years of transaction history. This is increasingly important as
corporate data volumes more than double every year and regulations
require companies to keep data longer. In addition, CopperEye's
patented indexing technology approach delivers a quantum leap in
performance in an open access format, enabling large amounts of data
and long-term retention at a fraction of the cost of traditional
database and data warehouse approaches, while eliminating vendor and
technology dependency. CopperEye has offices in Stamford, CT, and Bath,
UK.
About ThorpeGlen
ThorpeGlen is based at Adastral Park and backed by Cambridge-based
fund management team CREATE Partners Ltd, and recently bought the
Advanced Communications Monitoring business from Azure Solutions. Azure
was spun out from BT Brightstar in April 2003, and taken over by an
Indian company, Subex, in June 2006 to form Subex Azure. The advanced
systems the company makes can acquire, enhance, monitor and analyze
massive amounts of data. This can be used to predict activity which may
indicate preparation for major criminal events, including terrorism
acts and high-tech financial frauds.
CopperEye has offices in Bath, U.K. and Stamford, Conn., U.S.A. For further information, please visit http://www.coppereye.com.
For further information contact:
Betty Zakheim
CopperEye Ltd.
+1-978-274-5736
Email: pressenquiries@coppereye.com
Erica Burns
PAN Communications
+1-978-474-1900
Email: coppereye@pancomm.com
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